ArticleSOCIETY + CULTURE
Ethics Explainer: Cancel Culture
BY 8 JUL 2024
The quintessential examples of cancel culture are calls from groups of people online for various public figures to be stripped of support.
ArticleSOCIETY + CULTURE
Big Thinker: Philippa Foot
BY 11 APR 2024
Philippa Foot was one of the founders of contemporary virtue ethics, reviving the dominant Aristotelian ethics in the 20th century.
ArticlePOLITICS + HUMAN RIGHTS
Why sometimes the right thing to do is nothing at all
BY 8 FEB 2024
A 1990s science-fiction show reminds us that just because we can do something, it doesn’t always mean we should.
ArticleSOCIETY + CULTURE
Stoicism on Tiktok promises happiness – but the ancient philosophers who came up with it had something very different in mind
BY 20 DEC 2023
Can you be happy by simply accepting your fate? TikTok seems to think so.
ArticleRelationships
Ethics Explainer: Altruism
BY 15 DEC 2023
Altruism is a principle and practice that concerns the motivation and desire to positively affect another being for their own sake.
ArticleRelationships
The niceness trap: Why you mustn’t be too nice
BY 15 DEC 2023
It seems absurd to say we should put a cap on how nice we should be. But if we overdo it, we can end up shirking our other ethical obligations.
ArticlePOLITICS + HUMAN RIGHTS
Israel or Palestine: Do you have to pick a side?
BY 27 OCT 2023
We are inclined to pick a side in complex conflicts, but doing so can diminish our ethical point of view.
ArticleBUSINESS + LEADERSHIP
Do Australian corporations have the courage to rebuild public trust?
BY 27 SEP 2023
In order to rebuild public trust, Carl Rhodes says corporate Australia needs actively recognise and pursue its real social purpose.
ArticleBeing Human
In two minds: Why we need to embrace the good and bad in everything
BY 9 AUG 2023
If we are to engage with the ethical complexity of the world, we need to learn how to hold two contradictory judgements in our mind at the same time.
Article
Barbie and what it means to be human
BY 7 AUG 2023
How many of us consciously embrace our humanity? How many of us wonder about what it takes to become fully human?