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Summaries of readings, personal experiences, book suggestions, and essays dedicated to ending human
suffering.
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Consequentialism
The view that normative properties depend only on consequences; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/
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Violence Begets Violence
A theory of ethics based on enlightened self-interest.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/1582
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Equality and Egalitarianism - What It is Not, Fortunately
Ted Honderich on the misunderstandings and deceptions surrounding egalitarianism.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/whatequalityisnot.htm
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Equality and Egalitarianism - What It Really Comes To
Ted Honderich's political philosophy on the true basis of the tradition of egalitarianism - The
Principle of Equality.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/whatequalityis.htm
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Compatibilism, Incompatibilism, and the Smart Aleck
Ted Honderich on how freedom and determinism are really related, with special attention to Richard
Double's views.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/ted6.htm
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To what extent do ordinary citizens in advanced industrial nations contribute to suffering around the world?
Paper which argues that ordinary people are contributing to terrible suffering of both human and
non-human animals, often quite without being conscious of it. The conclusion reached is that many
ordinary people have the power, and the responsibility to change their lifestyles to more
compassionate ones, and that the personal is inextricably political.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ug/greenrd/dissertation.doc
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Consequentialism, Moralities of Concern, and Selfishness
Ted Honderich on only consequences making actions right (consequentialism), and the selfishness of
agent-relative moralities (non-consequentialisms).
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/ted9.htm
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The Golden Rule: Objections
Summarises some objections to the Golden Rule.
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/golden.rule.html
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Principles of Normative Ethics
Overview of normative ethical principles and theories.
http://www.stedwards.edu/ursery/norm.htm
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Living High and Letting Die, by Peter Unger
A radical "liberationist" account of ethics that argues that our ordinary intuitions
about the moral status of charitable giving (and refraining from charitable giving), are radically
wrong. An online book (with two chapters omitted).
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/unger/lhld/
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