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Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 2, Issue 1, 1999, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• A Look at Vichy Law
• Notice: The Center Launches Website
• Director's Corner: Tinkering with the Machinery of Death by Robert P. Lawry
• Ethics Events
• Ethics Updates
• News and Notes

Eros And Transgression In An Age Of Immanence: Georges Bataille’S (Religious) Critique Of Kinsey, James Mark Shields

Faculty Journal Articles

This paper explores the religious implications of eroticism in Western culture since the Sexual Revolution, a period at once applauded for its open and immanent view of sexuality and denounced for its shamelessness and promiscuity. After discussing the work and effects of Alfred C. Kinsey, the father of the Sexual Revolution, I focus on a critical appraisal of Kinsey written by French theorist Georges Bataille (“Kinsey, the Underworld and Work,” in L’Erotisme, 1957). Bataille situates contemporary Western sexuality within a larger historical movement towards the “desacralization” of all aspects of human life: sex, under the scientific gaze of the Kinsey …

Human Cloning And Donum Vitae, Alexander J. Lozano

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 1, Issue 4, 1999, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• CPE Celebrates Success With Rosenberg Project "Drama Discussions"
• Ethics Fellow Sadowsky Wins Award and Nomination
• Guest Director's Corner: Gift and Commodity by Edward Lawry
• Ethical Russian Entrepreneurship: Does It Exist?
• News and Notes

Trends. Causal Attributions And The Subversion Of Time: Would An Indictment Of The Israeli Foreign, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The article discusses the indictment of the Israeli Foreign Minister by the Israeli State Attorney on charges of fraud, bribery, and witness tampering.

[Book Review Of] The Healing Power Of Hope, By Mary Drahos, Christopher Kaczor

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Current Literature, Catholic Physicians' Guild

The Linacre Quarterly

Material appearing below is thought to be of particular interest to Linacre Quarterly readers because of its moral, religious, or philosophic content. The medical literature constitutes the primary, but not the sole source of such material. In general abstracts are intended to reflect the substance of the original article. Contributions and comments from readers are invited (E.G. Laforet, MD., 170 Middlesex Rd Chestnut Hill, MA 02167.)

Tolerating The Intolerable, Chandran Kukathas

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Presenting a lecture[1] on the virtue of toleration anywhere, let alone in the chambers of the Australian Senate department, should strike most people as a peculiarly pointless kind of exercise. Would anyone not in favour of toleration bother to turn up? (And what is the point of preaching to the converted? Would anyone against it bother to listen? And could such a person be converted?) In truth, it might not be easy to find anyone who openly professed intolerance. Almost everyone is in favour of tolerance; though of course, each will hasten to add, this does not mean that ‘anything …

The Sandelian Republic And The Encumbered Self, Richard Dagger

Political Science Faculty Publications

In Democracy's Discontent, Michael Sandel argues for a revival of the republican tradition in order to counteract the pernicious effects of contemporary liberalism. As in his earlier work, Sandel charges that liberals who embrace the ideals of political neutrality and the unencumbered self are engaged in a selfsubverting enterprise, for no society that lives by these ideals can sustain itself. Sandel is right to endorse the republican emphasis on forming citizens and cultivating civic virtues. By opposing liberalism as vigorously as he does, however, he engages in a self-subverting enterprise of his own. That is, Sandel is in danger …

Slavery And The Sudan: Can Good Works Be Good?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article focuses on the consequences of attempts to free slaves and abolish slavery in the Sudan.

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 1 Issue 3, 1999, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Richard Weisberg; author & scholar, to address CWRU
• Update on Ethics Fellows and Associates
• Regulating Ethics
• Porn on Campus: What are the Issues?
• Director's Corner by Robert P. Lawry
• CWRU Says Good-bye to Tom Murray ....With a Smile
• News and Notes

The Case Of Abdullah Ocalan: Interrogation, Torture, And Truth, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article presents arguments against conflating ethical, moral, and legal concerns with efficacy concerns regarding interrogation and torture.

Aborting The Pros And Cons Of Abortion: No Escaping The Killing Fields, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article critiques rationales of both opponents and supporters of intentionally aborting a human fetus. The critique has implications for arriving at legal, ethical, and moral judgments.

[Book Review Of] The Way Of The Lord Jesus, Volume Iii: Difficult Moral Questions, By Germain Grisez, David Albert Jones

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

From Humanae Vitae To Donum Vitae: Symmetry And Consistency In Catholic Biomedical Teaching, Paul F. Deladurantaye

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Ectopic Pregnancy: Current Treatment Options, Deja Vu Humanae Vitae, John E. Foran

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Humanist Ethics And Political Justice: Soto, Sepúlveda, And The "Affair Of The Indies", G. Scott Davis

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

In the debate over Spanish treatment of the natives of the New World, both sides regularly invoked Aristotle on natural slaves. This paper argues that the interpretation of the Spanish Dominican Domingo de Soto displays a greater understanding of Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition of justice than that of Juan Gines de Sepúlveda, the Spanish Humanist. The paper goes on to argue that it is the humanist tradition itself that disposes Sepúlveda to misconstrue Aristotle and the tradition of political justice.

Tradition And Truth In Christian Ethics: John Yoder And The Bases Of Biblical Realism, G. Scott Davis

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Reflecting on the state of theological ethics in 1981, James Gustafson wrote that "the radical Christian ethics of Yoder mark a substantive position for which there are many sound defenses; to opt against it is to opt against some fundamental claims of traditional Christianity." This, however, comes fast on the heels of Gustafson's remark that, despite its historical, biblical, sociological, and moral warrants, "I note Yoder's option here because it is the one most dramatically different from the option I shall pursue.'' The attentive outsider, unaccustomed to the ways of Christian ethics, is likely to wonder what, with all those …

Face-Ing The Other: An Ethics Of Encounter And Solidarity In Legal Services Practice, Marie Failinger

Faculty Scholarship

In this article, the author proposes that those who work in any capacity with impoverished clients and embattled minority communities imagine practice from within Levinas' key images. First, that ethics is first philosophy - that knowledge of the self, the Other and the context in which ethical action is possible does not precede ethical understanding, decision-making and action, but that rather that we become human in the ethical encounter with the incommensurable Other. Second, that representing a client is in each moment an encounter with the face of the Other. We look up into the face of the Other calling …

Europe And Violence: Some Contemporary Reflections On Walter Benjamin's "Theories Of German Fascism", Graham Macphee

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 1, Issue 2, 1999, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Panel Meets to Discuss Hate Crime Legislation
• Voices of Diversity
• Director's Corner: Distraction & the Good Society by Robert P. Lawry
• Ethics in Leadership
• Jean Bethke Elshtain Addresses CWRU
• News and Notes

Negotiating Cultural Boundaries: Confucianism And Trans/National Identity In Korea, William A. Callahan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This essay looks to the complex intercultural relations of China and Korea to highlight two important issues in political theory and international relations: the transnational nature of world politics and the limits of analytical binaries such as East‐West and tradition‐modernity. Discussions of international politics in East Asia characteristically address issues of security and development studies. More recently, Confucianism has been mobilized as part of the clash of civilizations of Asia with the West. This essay will consider how cultural boundaries are negotiated within the region via an analysis of the workings of the transnational discourse of Confucianism in the construction …

A Case Against Bringing Monsters To Justice: Pinochet, Deterrence, And Personal Identity, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article presents a philosophical psychology case against subjecting former national leaders who allegedly committed atrocities committed while they were in power to adjudication through a criminal or civil justice system.

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1998, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Tom Anderson Appointed as Ethics Fellow
• Director's Corner: Off base / On Base, by Robert P. Lawry
• Physician-Assisted Suicide: Morally Permissible?
• In Memorium: Marliln Samuels, 1996 Fellow
• News and Notes

Original Sin And The Power Of Narrative In Intelligence Operations, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article illustrates how the intent of a political community to demand sinless behavior in its leaders can sow the seeds for that community's demise.

Trends. A Stain On The Red, White, And Blue: Sex And United States (U.S.) Foreign Policy, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the impact of the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal on Bill Clinton's foreign policy

Affirmative Action: Diverse Goals, Diverse Policies, Eric Wampler

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented January 19, 1998 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Western Michigan University. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, the Department of Philosophy and the Wesley Foundation.

The Forgotten Factor: The Economic Principles Of Affirmative Action, Patrick Kinuthia

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented January 19, 1998 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Western Michigan University. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, the Department of Philosophy and the Wesley Foundation.

Affirming The Affirmative Action Intention, Barbra Jotzke

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented January 19, 1998 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Western Michigan University. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, the Department of Philosophy and the Wesley Foundation.

Introduction, Joseph Ellin

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented January 19, 1998 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Western Michigan University. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, the Department of Philosophy and the Wesley Foundation.