Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
... through national solidarity andmilitary dedication to a cause. It was hospitable to the idea of theleader whose godlike vision is authoritative and unchallengeable. Inturn, those ideas had roots ... missionary and the police hasmore or less vanished. A more pluralistic and relaxed appreciationof human diversity is often a welcome antidote to an embarrassingimperialism.The classic statement ... grade and evaluate, and compare and admire,and claim and justify. We do not just ‘prefer’ this or that, inisolation. We prefer that our preferences are shared; we turn theminto demands on each...
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Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
... This was because it was held that she had a mentaldisorder of a nature and degree that made it appropriate toreceive medical treatment in hospital, and that such admissionwas necessary for ... has just beenmapped and there is a possibility that prenatal diagnosis would bepossible in a future pregnancy. John and Sarah give their consent for a blood sample to be taken for DNA extraction, ... including: Julian Savulescu, Mike Parker,John McMillan, Guy Widdershoven, Roger Crisp, Martyn Evans, BillFulford, Don Hill, Andreas Hasman, Anne Slowther, Jacinta Tan, CliveBaldwin, Ranaan Gillon,...
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Economics: A Very Short Introduction
... parents can afford to be egalitarian. In contrast,Becky’s household can always afford enough food. Her parentsallocate food equally every day – again, allowing for differences innutritional ... duecare has been taken by insurees against bad outcomes (protectionagainst moral hazard). By being able to take advantage of the Lawof Large Numbers, markets and the government, taken together,are ... equal. There is evidence that this is so, both in theIndian sub-continent and in sub-Saharan Africa.The ratio of females to males in sub-Saharan Africa is 102 to 100,which means the female–male...
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Game theory: A very short introduction
... VonNeumann’s toy model abstracts all such complications away.Alice and Bob are each dealt a number between 0 and 1. Both aimto maximize their average dollar earnings on the assumption that90Informationall ... in launching an angry attackon Alice after she has treated him unfairly. His behaviour mightthen easily be dismissed as irrational by observers who fail tonotice that he isn’t necessarily acting ... capableof sustaining high levels of reciprocal altruism? How wouldhumans be capable of the same feat if we always had to spend halfan hour or more calculating what to do before taking any action?Some...
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Global catastrophes: A very short introduction
... the planet, sending up a gigantic plume of gas and debris and blasting outwards a rapidlyexpanding shock wave. As fragment after fragment hammered intothe planet, spectacular images were gathered ... waves, earthquakes, tsunamis, andwildfires. Many urban centres in Europe, Africa, and Asia appear tohave collapsed almost simultaneously around 2350 bc, and recordsabound of flood, fire, quake, ... trepidation. Seismologists predict that a quakeas large as magnitude 7 could strike at any time – directly beneaththe capital. This event, known locally as a chokka-gata quake, willcause severe...
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Photography: a very short introduction
... is an index of a speaker; writing of a hand employing a penor moving over a keyboard; traffic signs of both a fabricator and anact of planning. What is particular, and peculiar, about photographsis ... a distinction between actual and virtualphenomena.) Assuming a good, flat mirror with a clean surface,there are three factors that enable a beholder to determine thatwhat they see is an image, ... vision. Cameraimages are of a different order.An analogy with natural vision underpins many assumptions aboutphotography. It is often said that the camera is a truthful recorder inso far as it...
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Nuclear weapons: A very short introduction
... is moral; offense is immoral.’ Ironically, three and a half decades later, James M. Lindsay and Michael E. O’Hanlon argued a national security policy that deliberately leaves the American people ... Watkins concluded, to have a long-range programme to ‘develop systems that would defeat a missile attack’. Reagan gravitated to Watkins’s missile defence idea as a way to alleviate his moral ... Department’s budget, much larger than the estimates initially offered by the Reagan administration.Meanwhile, arms negotiator and diplomat Paul Nitze had presented a three-part formula that any...
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