Category Archives: Ethics and Philosophy
Living With Ethics – Personal Basic Code of Ethics
Sometimes we need to step back from the routines of daily life and think about our life as a whole. What are we doing in our lives? What are our values and what matters most to us? Once we became self aware, we have to face choices, and deal with the fact that certain values, …
Living With Ethics – Part Two
In part one of Living With Ethics I talked about Virtue Ethics, which for me is the foundation to an ethical life. Now I would like to talk about Descriptive Ethics. Descriptive Ethics, as I’ve already mentioned in part one, is the factual study of the ethical standards or principles of a group or tradition. …
Living With Ethics – Part One
The one argument that I as a pagan have heard over and over again from people following the monotheistic religions is that as a pagan I lacked an ethical foundation and orientation. Keeping that in mind I set out on this voyage. As I’ve mentioned on MY BELIEFS page, every person has a code of …
Book Review: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Ethics
I know how people view “The Complete Idiot’s” series of books (I’m one of these people or I used to be) but when you get a complicated subject like ethics, then you start to view things a little differently. It is hard to know where start with complicated objects and when more scholastic beginner series …
Ethics A Very Short Introduction by Simon Blackburn
This is a book that is relatively short. It is divided into three parts. The first looks at the responses people sometimes give when faced with ethical questions. And these responses in different ways are threats to ethics. In part two the author looks at some of the problems that life throws at us, how …
A Short Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
As you know, either from the My Beliefs page on my website or from my essay A Short Look at Religion, every religion has a code of ethics and moral standards that it lives by. And yet when you look paganism that is not something that is immediately seen or found. In this essay I …
