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Foreign aid, ethical obligations and the morality of giving

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From the archives, philosopher Julian Baggini examines the morality of giving, and our ethical obligations to those less fortunate than ourselves
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We can understand the effect of privilege better when we consider it in terms of moral luck

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Terms like 'privilege' have, rightly or wrongly, become divisive - a simpler, and perhaps more fitting, question to ask is how lucky we've been
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What is ‘value’? Reconciling ethics with scientific materialism

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Skeptics can be uncomfortable reconciling ethics with a materialist worldview, but one solution is to accept that 'value' can be an objective concept
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“Who decides?”: how fair questions can derail meaningful action

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The question of who gets to decide how boundaries are set in society can often be a way to distract from efforts to change the status quo
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Are you skeptical about free will? Prove it!

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Letting go of a belief in free will isn't easy, but proving to people that no trace of the belief persists? That's where things get really tricky.
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Real in what sense? Consensually torturing skeptics over the nature of ‘realness’

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Even a skeptic's sense of what is real can be less black and white than we think - and can lead to some surprisingly uncomfortable analysis
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Ethics for skeptics: why compassion and reason go hand in hand

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Philosophy lecturer Aaron Rabinowitz outlines the ethical core of skepticism, and explains why a compassionate understanding of morality must underpin the skeptical worldview.
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Sexual Ethics

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Volume 20 Number 3, Autumn 2007

Philosopher’s Corner

Julian Baggini

SEXUAL ETHICS seems such a quaint old subject.
Such has been the success of the almost complete purge of sex from the arena of serious, secular ethical debate that when someone does raise the topic, we immediately suspect (usually correctly) that that person has some conservative or religious axe to grind.

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