Religion, Philosophy & Ethics

NEWSFLASH: The Christmas RPE Student meal is booked: It will be at the Balti on the Bath Road at 6pm on Wednesday 13th December. However – they do need some idea of numbers – so let the student reps know…

Those of you doing RPE101 (Philosophical and Ethical Arguing) may enjoy the argument examples at – using the words of MTV’s Beavis and Butthead (some of us are old enough to remember them)… Dave

Today’s Guardian has a piece entitled Heirs to the slavers – at – which looks at those whose ancestors were slave traders – and asks the views of a range of others – including Dizzee Rascal, Trisha (!) and…

Celebrity Buddhist watch, pt2: THe e-magazine, Zen Unbound has a table of celebrity Buddhist practitioners – and an estimation of the extent to which Buddhism is part of their lives… It is at Dave.

Okay – we talked about Richard Gere: I suggest we now collect examples of pop-stars and other celebs giving their views on Buddhism – and indeed other spiritual matters: I will start with Ricky Martin (remember him?) talking on Buddhist…

The Philosophy Dept at University of California, Santa Barbara has a course blog at: – they seem to really get stuck into the comments thing too. I like their discussion of whether of not Unicorns exist at: 2006/08/do-unicorns-exist.html Maybe…

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Should ethnic and religious minorities be allowed to use traditional or religious laws to settle civil disputes (not criminal)? See for a discussion – but I would advise you to follow the links and listen to the associated programme…