Category: Ethics
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The Boeing case: Not Boeing’s fault! It is our ethics!
Last week several emails exchanged between Boeing employees were revealed, in which those employees seemed to know about the problems of the 737 MAX airplane and even ridicule the authorities and the airlines for believing them that there were no problems. The investigation is ongoing.One cannot of course know from now the result of the…
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Against Abortions – Summary of arguments
Modern civilization is the civilization of “rights”. And this entails the non-existence of any “obligations”. The abortions case is the best example illustrating such a way of thinking. Abortions are seen today as a “human right”. Never before had anything so dark been painted with so glorious colors. Never before had such an unethical action…
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Worms under the Golden Palm… (How movies are a testament to our lower ethical values)
I have recently seen the South Korean movie “Parasite”, which has recently won also the 2019 Palme d’Or in Cannes Film Festival. As many view the movie as good, which I do too, some also pinpointed the philosophical and sociological questions posed by the movie. WARNING: Spoilers for the movie “Parasite” and “Joker” will follow! In…
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Ethics, Robots, Free will…
Can there be ethics without free will? The sister-site Harmonia Philosophica @ Blogger provides some insight… Check out “Philosophy Wire: Ethics without free will… No ethics at all…“. Somehow making our new robots obey orders doesn’t sound like a good idea. Obeying orders was the foundation of the deepest evil even known to mankind…
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The fallacy of Education as a Source of Ethics
Harmonia Philosophica keeps on contributing to the philosophical research of what is ethical. The source of ethics is one great question that has been around for millennia and the answer could need a collective holistic approach in how we think. To that end, a new paper has been published by Spyridon Kakos, the details of…
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