THIS REVIEW MAY BE OF INTEREST TO STUDENTS AND TEACHERS WHO ARE TASKED WITH LOOKING AT LIFE AND DEATH/THE SOUL AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE. Studying religion can sometimes be a rum business. Take the late Martin Riesebrodt, for example. He was a sociologist who defined the subject (or rather religion itself) as a ‘legitimate form of […]
The following is a rather personal list of publications that I would recommend to sixth-formers who wish to expand their horizons a little by engaging in some supplementary reading over and above their course textbooks. Teachers who are inclined to read around the subject may enjoy some of them too. Note that I am restricting
The American philosopher Martha Nussbaum may already be familiar to some readers of this blog, as Greek philosophy is one area of particular academic interest for her, and she has made a significant contribution to the field of modern virtue ethics. Specifically, she interprets Aristotle’s virtues as absolutes, and argues that justice, temperance etc. are
We begin by looking at a famous thought experiment that is often used to introduce this topic: the Trolley Car dilemma. Trolley Car Dilemma Version 1 You are walking near a trolley-car track when you notice five people tied to it in a row. The next instant, you see a trolley hurtling toward them, out