Author: Ryan Jenkins Category: Historical Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ethics Word Count: 938 You have often heard it said that the Form of the Good is the greatest thing to learn about, and that it is by their relation to it that just things and [other virtuous things] become useful and beneficial (Republic, 505a). Plato’s Republic is a wide-ranging tract, admired for … Continue reading Plato’s Form of the Good
Author: Ryan Jenkins Category: Social and Political Philosophy Word Count: 1000 Listen here War is a profoundly destructive institution, yet most of us still believe there are good wars. Authors as far back as Cicero, and in various cultural traditions,[1] have sought to answer this question: When is a war just? The just war tradition (or just war theory) … Continue reading Just War Theory
Author: Ryan Jenkins Category: Ethics Word Count: 1000 Very few of us are pacifists, which is to say that most of us accept that killing in warfare is at least sometimes morally justified. But the philosophical exploration of when killing in war is permissible—one area of the discipline of military ethics—is complicated by worries that arise from … Continue reading The Ethics of Drone Strikes
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