Our moral fate

evolution and the escape from tribalism

Is tribalism—the political and cultural divisions between Us and Them—an inherent part of our basic moral psychology? Many scientists link tribalism and morality, arguing that the evolved “moral mind” is tribalistic. Any escape from tribalism, according to this thinking, would be partial and ...

The heart of Human Rights

This is the first attempt to provide an in-depth moral assessment of the heart of the modern human rights enterprise: the system of international legal human rights. It is international human rights law-not any philosophical theory of moral human rights or any "folk" conception of ...

Secesión

causas y consecuencias del divorcio político

Este libro, uno de los primeros estudios de calado hechos sobre un fenómeno creciente y de crucial importancia política, analiza la moral de la secesión desde dos perspectivas. A un nivel práctico, Buchanan desarrolla una teoría coherente en función de la cual sostiene que la ...

Better than human

the promise and perils of enhancing ourselves

Is it ethical for medical science to do more than treat illness--to actually make us "better than human"? Currently the U.S. military is searching for a drug that will allow soldiers to stop sleeping, completely--and tests have already been conducted on promising candidates. In ...

States, Nations, and Borders

The Ethics of Making Boundaries.

This volume examines comparatively the views and principles of seven prominent ethical traditions on one of the most pressing issues of modern politics - the making and unmaking of state and national boundaries. The traditions represented are Judaism, Christianity, Islam, natural law, Confucianism, liberalism and international ...

Secession and self-determination

Nomos XLV