Logic for morals, morals from logic

The Natural Logic of Morals and of Laws

The theme of this special issue is “Is Morality Universal, and Should the Law Care?” For me, this question provokes the further question of what morality and the law are. That is what most of this essay is about. The last two sections address the initial question, primarily dealing with laying out its multiple ambiguity. Few of its readings have easy answers; the best I can do in the present di...

Morals and Medicine

pared to normal synovial cells. This little book reviews these and other measurements in plasma, urine, synovial fluid, tissue extracts and synovial cell culture. The chapter on hormones is notable for its statement that prednisolone is the only drug which can halt the erosive progress of rheumatoid arthritis. This is certainly not the orthodox view of most rheumatologists, and its emphasis cas...

Law, Language and Morals

Meat, morals, and masculinity.

Much research has demonstrated that people perceive consumers of "good," low-fat foods as more moral, intelligent, and attractive, and perceive consumers of "bad," high-fat foods as less intelligent, less moral, and less attractive. Little research has contrasted perceptions of omnivores and vegetarians, particularly with respect to morality and gender characteristics. In two between-subject st...

Man, Morals and Society

Professor Flugel's untimely death has recently made us all sad : and the republication of this book (which first appeared in 1945) emphasises our loss anew. Although the subtitle is "a psychoanalytic study" it will appeal to the general reader, and indeed is a most skilful attempt to integrate the theories of the various psychoanalytic schools into a comprehensive?and, remarkably, comprehensibl...