The 1992 film Unforgiven, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, has been widely acclaimed for challenging cliché themes of violence in the Western
Month: May 2017
Brownlee’s Aspirations and Aspects of Virtue
In “Moral Aspirations and Ideals” by Kimberley Brownlee, she asserts that ideals and aspirations are distinct moral categories. She defines an ideal as a
Normative Ethics and the Trolley Problem
In David Edmonds’ book, Would You Kill The Fat Man, variations on a thought experiment are used to expose problems in making ethical determinations.