Immanuel Kants quote highlights the link between self-respect and how individuals are treated by others, stressing that dignity begins from within. Through strong imagery, he warns that consistently ...

The Supreme Court decided on June 15 that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects gay and transgender workers from workplace discrimination. Discrimination ‘because of sex’ is unlawful. But what is it ...

The concepts of autonomy as the self governance of individuals and dignity as the inner worth of human beings play an important role in contemporary bioethics. Since both notions are crucial to ...

Mainstream economics has long struggled to model ethical behaviour, including what is perhaps its simplest type, altruism. The standard assumption of homo economicus, an agent who maximizes his ...

This course is available on the MSc in Political Theory. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course is capped ...

Immanuel Kant’s exploration of mental disorders is extensively articulated in his later work, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798). Unlike the predominant medical or biological ...

Good moral reasoning is extremely important for Homo sapiens. Our lives are more fruitful if we recognize salient ethical norms and reason effectively about their application to our own situations. We ...

This course is available on the MSc in Political Theory. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. Optional for MSc ...