Philosophy and Ethics

Friday Filosophy: an analogy for virtue

6 November, 2009
By Raphael Fraser

Last week I wrote about the four principles of medical ethics (as described by Beauchamp and Childress): Beneficence, Non-maleficence, Autonomy, and Justice. I described that as the simple end, and over the next few posts I want to explore why they’re a bit too simple, and discuss some other frameworks. Today, there’s just a...

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The Inaugural Friday Filosophy

30 October, 2009
By Raphael Fraser

I dropped myself in it, didn’t I? Announcing a regular posting schedule without getting any pre-written posts in hand. Now that: that was intelligent … Anyway … What to do? I thought I’d start at the most simplistic, baby-steps end of medical ethics, and write a little about the four principles that have become...

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Gonna shake it up…

28 October, 2009
By Raphael Fraser

I think it might be good to introduce a bit of regularity: some blogary fibre, if you like I kind of started a little bit along that route on Monday with the first of my MusicMonday posts, but on the day didn’t think of anything else regular. Today I decided that a couple...

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Understanding your choices: ethical aspects of “filesharing”

22 October, 2009
By Raphael Fraser

"We can never see past the choices we don't understand" said the Oracle in the Matrix. The choices discussed in this post are around downloading copyrighted material on teh intertoobz

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