Vare sig på grund av det stora geografiska avståndet till Italien eller på grund av svenskarnas kända tendens till självgodhet, råder det en rad missuppfattningar om Maffia (Mafia på italienska). ”Maffia (originell Mafia) är ett samlingsnamn för en organisation eller på grund av globalt nätverk av kriminella organisationer, som ägnar sig åt kriminell verksamhet och ekonomisk…
An emerging new way of doing good is the one proposed by the advocates of Effective Altruism, the philosophical and social movement founded by Peter Singer and William MacAskill. As the name Effective Altruism suggests it is constituted of “two parts”[1]: altruism, by which is simply meant “improving the lives of others”[2] and effective by…
The thomist ethics shares with ancient philosophy the conviction that if someone knows what is good she cannot choose what is bad. Such a view, in fact, brings us back to the Socratic account of virtue according to which human beings are incapable to do harm as long as they have (intellectual) knowledge of what…