Tag Archives: Ethics
Current American Fiction and Nonfiction
Gail Godwin discusses her fiction, its resources, and its relationship to English and American literary traditions. She is the author of several novels, including A Mother and Two Daughters and The Finishing School, and collections of short stories. In the second segment (14:30), Robert Coles discusses his books The … Continue reading
Posted in Coles, Robert, Episodes, Godwin, Gail
Tagged Ethics, Novelists, Novels, Religion
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Newspapers and Ethics
What are the ethical responsibilities of American journalism? In practical terms, in the mid-1980s, who bears the burden for these responsibilities–editors or publishers? According to Philip E. Meyer, editors and publishers generally agree on the substance of most ethical issues. … Continue reading
Afro-American History, Part 2 of 3: (1) Ethiopia; (2) Commentary on William Wells Brown
By nearly all accounts–political, social, and moral–Ethiopia in the mid-1980s was one of the crisis points in contemporary global relations. According to Harold Marcus, the answers to many Ethiopian issues, including politics and subsistence, are as varied as Ethiopia’s cultural, linguistic, … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Marcus, Steven, Sekora, John
Tagged African American History, Ethics, Ethiopia, Politics, William Wells Brown
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From Nature to Ethics
Physician Leon Kass discusses his study on the links between biology and human ethics, noting the gap between the world as modern science defines it and the world as we experience it in ordinary life. He addresses questions such as these: … Continue reading
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Tagged Bioethics, Ethics, Practice of medicine
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(1) Alma Mater: Design and Experience; (2) The Morality of Spending
Helen Horowitz discusses her book, Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women’s Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s. In the second segment [14:00], Daniel Horowitz discusses his book about intellectual response to the emergence of mass consumer culture in the … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Horowitz, Daniel, Horowitz, Helen L.
Tagged Consumerism, Education -- Women -- U.S., Ethics
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The Case of Animal Rights
Do animals have rights? To what extent do animals participate in the human moral community? How should humankind view its ethical relationship to animals? Those questions are central to Tom Regan‘s book, The Case for Animal Rights, published in 1983 … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Regan, Tom
Tagged Animal Rights, Ethics, Human Rights, Philosophy, Pulitzer Prize
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(1) Medieval Literature and Society, Part 3 of 3: “Piers Plowman”; (2) Commentary on the Megaliths of Stonehenge
George Russell and George Kane discuss the fourteenth-century English allegorical poem Piers Plowman. Wandering in the English countryside, a poet stops to rest, falls asleep, and dreams. His vision is filled with fantastic images of right and wrong, reason and … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Gingher, Robert, Kane, George, Russell, George H.
Tagged Allegorical poetry, English literature -- Poetry -- Fourteenth century, Ethics, Stonehenge
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Mind and Morality
Lynne Rudder Baker addresses ideas about the philosophy of mind, morality, moral relativism, and related concepts. At the time of this interview, Baker, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1983-84), was professor of philosophy at Middlebury College. This edition … Continue reading
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Tagged Cognitive science, Ethics, morality, Philosophy
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Edmund Burke and Modern Conservatism, Part 2 of 5: Natural Law
Joseph Hamburger, Paul Kress, Lewis Lipsitz, and Harvey Mansfield begin by discussing Burke’s conservative views on natural law (contrasted with man-made law or moral theory) in the context of the British constitution and empire. They note that some of his sociopolitical views (such … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Hamburger, Joseph, Kress, Paul F., Lipsitz, Lewis, Mansfield, Harvey C.
Tagged Britain -- Law -- History, Ethics, Political Conservatism, Politics
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