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In a 1997 debate in the Netherlands about sex-selective abortion, it was assumed that certain cultural minorities have a cultural preference for sons & that sex-selective abortions may be sought on that ground. Here, questions about women's rights, cultural toleration, & public morality emerging from this debate are raised, discussing how a diversity- & an autonomy-based approach to toleration could balance these different values. It is argued that, although sex-selective abortion is morally wrong, access to abortion should not be restricted. 31 References. Adapted from the source document.

Robert Heilbroner's Human Prospect would change everything. Suddenly and radically our future is transformed. Only yesterday morning science and technology—aided by expanding industrialism—painted for us a future resonant with promise. Now we knew how to know; and in knowing all, we could control all. Thus the future was to be a realm of unlimited freedom; freedom over the forces that formerly bound us in necessity, even, said some, freedom over evolution, freedom from the limits of space and time, from want, from labor, possibly from disease, from genetic faults and from social maladjustments. Only yesterday afternoon gospels of political, social and theological liberation painted a future of self-realization, a future where the chains of oppression and exploitation are broken. Here too the future is a realm of hope, the realm where, as futurist theologians have told us, God's rule will be fully manifest.

AbstractLloyd's book, Morality in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, correctly stresses the deductive element in Hobbes's proofs of the laws of nature. She believes that "the principle of reciprocity" is the key to these proofs. This principle is effective in getting ego-centric people to recognize moral laws and their moral obligations. However, it is not, I argue, the basic principle Hobbes uses to derive the laws of nature, from definitions. The principle of reason, which dictates that all similar cases be treated similarly, is. It is important not to diminish the centrality of reason for Hobbes because it is essential to understanding his reply to "the fool" and understanding why the state of nature cannot be a continuum.

Using the occasion of the recent outbreak of Foot and Mouth in Europe/Ireland, this paper draws attention to the suppression of animals from most sociological discussions of society-nature relations or of ecological risks. It explores the ideas of two major theorists of 'transition beyond modernity' – Beck and Bauman – and argues that this most recent crisis in the food system considerably problematises their arguments for the transition. However it also draws on Bauman's work on morality and modernity to find an explanation for the treatment of the animals involved in the crisis and more generally for the non-recognition of these sentient others within the social world.

Recent years have seen a renaissance of interest in the relationship between natural law and natural rights. During this time, the concept of natural rights has served as a conceptual lightning rod, either strengthening or severing the bond between traditional natural law and contemporary human rights. Does the concept of natural rights have the natural law as its foundation or are the two ideas, as Leo Strauss argued, profoundly incompatible?With The Foundations of Natural Morality, S. Adam Seagrave addresses this controversy, offering an entirely new account of nat.