The core of ethics and international affairs can be accessed through three normative concepts: pluralism; rights and responsibilities; and fairness. A standard method of inquiry would begin with description of a normative issue and proceed through an analysis of the...
Ethics as Practice The discipline of ethics begins with Socrates’ question: How should one live? Ethics is about choice. What values guide us? What standards do we use? What principles are at stake? And how do we choose between them. An ethical approach to a problem...
This talk was presented on February 24, 2012, at the University of Utah’s Sixth Annual International Conference on Human Rights, Conflict Resolution, Nonviolence and Peace. The concept of “common good” is especially appealing because it is consistent with realism. By...
Originally published on October 20, 2002. “The Fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” So begins Isaiah Berlin’s essay, “The Hedgehog and Fox.” One year after September 11, 2001, in the midst of a still evolving “war on terrorism,” it is...
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