Philosophy 114
Contemporary Moral Issues
Helpful Links
(ALWAYS IN PROGRESS)
As you know, the quality of what you can find on the internet varies
enormously. Thus, I've compiled a list of things that I'll vouch
for as worthy of your time. This doesn't mean that I think you
should agree with everything you'll find here, of course!
General ethics sites
Ethical topics sites
- The meaning of life and death
- War, violence, and self-defense
- Cloning and Stem-Cell Research
- Suicide, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
- "Assisted
Suicide:
The Philosophers'
Brief," by John Rawls, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Robert Nozick, Ronald
Dworkin, T. M. Scanlon, and Thomas Nagel
- "A
Right
to Choose
Death? A moral argument for the permissibility of euthanasia and
physician-assisted suicide," by F. M. Kamm
- "Against
the Right to Die," by J. David Velleman (See also here)
- "Against
the Sanctity of Life," by Peter Suber
- "Voluntary
Euthanasia," from the Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- "Suicide,"
from the Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Affirmative Action and Race Relations
- Materials on Peter Singer, Ira w. DeCamp Professor of
Bioethics
at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University
My other links pages (some of which contain ethics materials)
Back to Ethics Home Page
Back to Jensen's Home Page