Ethical Issues

Select audio recordings from lectures and courses by Dr. Peter J. Colosi.
The Union of Body and Soul in Human Persons

Dignity of Persons (2018)

In this lecture I discuss various sources of the dignity of persons; the text for this lecture is: Josef Seifert, “The Right to Life and the Fourfold Root of Human Dignity,” in The Nature and...

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PHL 260 The Pro-Choice Argument

PHL 260 The Pro-Choice Argument

The beginning of the pro-choice moral argument. I begin with a number of preliminary points setting the stage and parameters of the discussion. In this lecture I cover some embryological facts and...

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PHL 260 The Pro-Choice Argument

PHL 260 The Pro-Life Argument

In this lecture I cover the pro life arguments presented in the book Understanding Abortion: From Mixed Feelings to Rational Thought (Lexington Books, 2012) by Stephen D. Schwarz with Kiki Latimer....

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PHL 260 The Pro-Choice Argument

PHL 260 Dignity of Persons

This is a two part lecture of PHL 260 Ethical Issues at Salve Regina University Spring 2016. In this lecture I explain the various sources of the dignity of persons. There is a handout here to...

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The Union of Body and Soul in Human Persons

Ethical Issues: Morality of Lying

Lecture 1 of Ethical Issues, a course I am teaching at Salve Regina University Spring 2016. In this first half of the first lecture I introduce the course and begin the lecture on the morality of...

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