Dr. Eric M. Meslin is Director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, Professor of Medicine, and of Medical and Molecular Genetics in the Indiana University School of Medicine, and Professor of Philosophy in the School of Liberal Arts. He is also Assistant Dean for Bioethics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Meslin received his B.A. in Philosophy from York University (T...

one of the greatest philosophers of western tradition, spinoza, in ethics, explained the nature of passions and presented some cures for them. george eliot, a great novelist in the nineteenth century and the translator of spinoza’s works, was strongly influenced by spinoza’s philosophy and of course in some cases surpassed him. in this essay, i try to explain that although in the case of cures ...

Decisions must be justified. In medical ethics various grounds are given to justify decisions, but ultimate justification seems illusory and little considered. The philosopher Wittgenstein discusses the problem of ultimate justification in the context of general philosophy. His comments, nevertheless, are pertinent to ethics. From a discussion of Wittgensteinian notions, such as 'bedrock', the ...

Brad J. Kallenberg, Ph.D., is Professor of Theology & Ethics at the University of Dayton (OH) where he has pioneered a course in engineering ethics that compares ethics to engineering design. After studying chemistry, then physics, on a scholarship to the University of Minnesota, Kallenberg eventually shifted his attention to topics arising at the interface of science, engineering and theology....

In recent years, we have seen a resurgence of the topic shame in philosophy and moral philosophy. The paper analyses as emotion contemporary moral-philosophical environmental discourse. Questions are articulated, which different contexts has already been studied them appear to be crucial for ethics applied ethics? article, author addresses concept by Sarah E. Fredericks (2021) considers questio...

Abstract Individualist normative theories appear inadequate for the complex moral challenges of climate change. In ethics, this is especially notable with relative marginalization Kant. I argue that Kant’s philosophy, understood through its historical and cosmopolitan dimensions, has untapped potential crisis. First, situate Kant in ethics evaluate his due to perceived individualism, interiorit...