Cicero idealized a stoic viewpoint that was prone to misinterpretation and translation errors. He is less convincing than Gandhi in regards to political violence, because his stoic rhetoric indicated that he had little concern for justifying political violence beyond name-calling. He indicated political violence is applicable in some situations is in his De Officiis, Book […]
Month: September 2024
The Ethics of The Milgram Experiment
A scientific experiment is very different from a psychological experiment as was observed with The Milgram Experiment. The test was applied to participants recklessly because it stood to inflict psychological trauma in no less than a third of the participants, whose expression of nervous laughing or sweating indicated extreme psychological distress that these people were […]
The Impact of Infant Moral Psychology on Adult Moral Development
The leading story in the video, “Born good? Babies help unlock the origins of morality,” is framed in order to secure and sustain funding and attention in the continued pursuit of understanding infant morality. It’s easier to sensationalize the claim that there’s, “a universal moral core that all humans share,” (Stahl 06:20 – 06:25) rather […]