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From Laila Simnett
Can the UK afford to help the refugees coming to Europe from Syria and other countries in the Middle East? Or would this strain the resources of the country? James… -
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The aim of the City of Sanctuary movement is to foster a culture of hospitality for people seeking safety in the United Kingdom, especially refugees fleeing war,… -
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Professor Angie Hobbs gave the first talk in our new series of interdisciplinary talks 'God and the Good: Thinking Religion and Ethics' on 11th October 2016 at… -
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The ethics of care - Carol Gilligan and Lawrence Kohlberg. -
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Further examination of the Eternal Recurrence, and the 20th century's most important political philosopher, John Rawls -
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An overview of Nietzsche - The Birth of Tragedy, The Transvaluation of All Values. and the Eternal Recurrence. -
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More on Bentham, and Mill's revisions to Bentham's hedonic calculus. -
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Bentham's ethics - The foundation of Bentham’s ethics is what he takes to be the fact that all sentient creatures are attracted to pleasure and recoil from… -
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Further investigation of Kant -
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Going from the Ancient Greeks to the eighteenth century, this lecture starts to look at the work of Kant and Hume -
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Both Plato and Aristotle argue that human flourishing is not to be achieved through the acquisition of material wealth and worldly power. They base their arguments on… -
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Review of Callicles, and exploration of Thrasymachus' two main statements about justice. -
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Introduction to the module and discussion of Plato's character Callicles. -
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After considering all of the concepts in Zeno's paradoxes, Professor Angie Hobbs looks at them as a broader body of work and explores some key themes. -
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Professor Angie Hobbs moves on to describe The Arrow paradox, which is perhaps the most challenging of all Zeno's paradoxes.