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The Unavoidability of Greed?
At the outset of a critical examination of everyday greed, two basic challenges must be faced. First, there is a need for a clear and determinant...
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Gandhi’s ‘True’ Politics and the Integrity of the Good Life: Satya, Swaraj, Tapasya, and Satyagraha
This essay will suggest that Gandhi’s true/real politics can be best understood in terms of the integrity of his ideas. This integrity refers to the...
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Perpetual Peace or War? A Critical Reflection on Kant and the Mahābhārata’s Political Thoughts
Immanuel Kant, in his political project, “Perpetual Peace” has attempted to show a moral hope for the scourge of humanity, i.e. war . For Kant, man’s...
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Role Paradigms: The Value of Putting People First and Reflection on the Roles of Ruler and Minister
China during the Sui, Tang and five dynasties underwent complete cycles of order and chaos. Due to the forces of the political terrain and the...
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Envy, Levelling-Down, and Harrison Bergeron: Defending Limitarianism Against Three Common Objections
This paper discusses limitarianism in light of three popular objections to the redistribution of extreme wealth: (i) that such redistribution...
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Secular, Non-dogmatic Spirituality
The concept of non-dogmatic spirituality is worked out and described. It is shown that this is directly linked to the scholastic period when the...
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Plato on Madness and Mental Disorders
Plato and madness—the association of these two words makes one immediately think of Plato’s celebrated notion of madness as an inspired state, a...
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Conclusion: Moore and Wittgenstein on Epistemology and Language. A Synopsis
Let us conclude this book with a synopsis of Moore’s and Wittgenstein’s views on the themes which we have been focusing upon. As should by now be...
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Thinking and Acting Outside the Neo-classical Economic Box: Reply to McMurtry
This paper responds to Professor John McMurtry, primarily to his critique ( Journal of Business Ethics , Vol. 44, 2003) of my recent book, Economics as...
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Commutative Justice
Justice is the realization of morality in human social relationships, the state of character and practice of giving to each person what is his or...
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‘I can only move my feet towards mizuko kuyō’ Memorial Services for Dead Children in Japan
Mizuko, literally ‘water-child’, is the name now given in Japan to children who have died ‘out of order’, that is, before their parents. This...
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The Crisis of Virtue: Arming for the Cultural Wars and Pellegrino at the Limes
Edmund Pellegrino’s work has been crucial to the renaissance of interest in the philosophy of medicine and the philosophical grounding of medical...
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What Kind of God?: An Inquiry into the Challenge of Suffering
As we have seen in the previous chapters, tragedies, suffering and especially death raise difficult problems. In fact, their occurrence is said to...
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Something Like the Middle Voice
How much more attuned the ear may become to the middle voice of Gelassenheit if it is orientated toward Biblical doctrines of grace depends on...
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Giving ethics the business
The criminal conviction of Amway Corporation for evasion of Canadian customs duties not only belies the high ethical profession of its president,...