In the book Unfit for the Future Persson and Savulescu portray the problems and challenges humanity will have to cope with in the near future. Problems technological progress and demographic growth have evoked can’t be solved through common moral psychology, which was assimilated to small, nontechnological societies many many years ago. There is a need of moral enhancement for humanity to be ab...

Insufficient attention has been given to moral issues surrounding consumption (Hilton 2004; Miller 2001). Moreover, in spite of the exhaustive empirical coverage of the moral status of animals, both from a philosophical and political perspective and the belief that “consumption is in essence a moral matter” (Wilk 2001, p.246), very little empirical consideration has been given to the moral issu...

Title of Document: ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PEERS AND PROPENSITY: EXAMINING VULNERABILITY TO PEER REINFORCEMENT Kyle J. Thomas Master of Arts 2011 Directed By: Associate Professor, Jean McGloin, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice ABSTRACT Though scholars recognize that peer-based risks for offending are especially robust, a handful of researchers have started to question whether ...

One of the many possibilities of understanding culture is proposed by Clifford Geertz who understood culture as “a system of control mechanisms— plans, recipes, rules, instructions ... that guide behavior”(Geertz, 1973). This opinion is based on the assumption that “man is exactly the animal that is the most dependent upon such control mechanisms that exist outside the skin” (p. 44). But these ...

Experiencing ubiquitous contention, the correlation between execution as a form of legal punishment and morality pervades in the modern era to form a central concern for examination. Competing accounts of moral theories have provided dichotomous vindications for capital punishment, indicating a substantial strife in criminal justice morality. This thesis will examine these rival philosophies in...