The Supreme Court is a powerful legal and political institution in the United States. In decisions such as Bush v. Gore, Roe v. Wade, Brown v. Board of Education, McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, and Miranda v. Arizona, the Court has determined the outcome of a presidential race, declared women have the right to abortions, struck down segregation, upheld campaign finance reform laws, and stipulated that police officers must inform those accused of crime their rights.

Aristotle's teaching on the subject of happiness has been a topic of intense philosophical. Did he hold that happiness consists of the exercise of all the virtues, moral and intellectual, or that supreme happiness is to be found only in the practice of philosophical contemplation? The question is vital to the relevance of his ethics today. Anthony Kenny helped to set the terms of the debate a quarter of a century ago. Later, in his book The Aristotelian Ethics, he argued that Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics has no less claim than the better-known Nicomachean Ethics...

 

 

The God Delusion
read by Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward
Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes. He critiques God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being.
Initially posted 2007-05-15
Updated: 2007-05-14 (book fixed-missing pages added); added a link to BBC-4 TV Show 'Hard Talk" - Richard Dawkins.