For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page.
Ruth Benedict, excerpts from Patterns of Culture (1934) on moral relativism.
Richard P. Feynman, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” (1985).
Sigmund Freud, “Man is a wolf to man”. Excerpt from Civilization and Its Discontents (1930).
Stephen Jay Gould, “Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs” (1985).
Hippocrates, The Hippocratic Oath (c. 430 BCE)
Kurt Vonnegut, “Harrison Bergeron” (1961).
Alfred North Whitehead, “Religion and Science” (1925).
Five arguments on the abortion issue:
Baruch Brody, “Fetal Humanity and Brain Function.”
John Noonan, “An Almost Absolute Value in History” (1970).
Mary Anne Warren, “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion.”
Judith Jarvis Thomson, “A Defense of Abortion” (1971).
Ronald Reagan, “Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation” (1983).