LitMUSE

Sandy is an engineer on her way up in a major automobile manufacturing firm. She learns, through departmental gossip, that a new car designed by another department is being tested and has revealed a possibility of gas tank explosion on impact. She is told that the car is not going to be redesigned until next [...]

Aristotle makes a case for the legitimacy of “instrumental ends,” i.e., acts that are done as a means to other ends, as an ethical concept if they help humans fulfill their functions as humans. This notion has a direct relationship to the oldest of moral issues: Are there some goals (ends) so important that they [...]

Once upon a time there was a woman named Abigail who was in love with a man named Gregory. Gregory lived on the shore of a river. Abigail lived on the opposite shore of the river. The river which separated the two lovers was teeming with ravenous alligators. Abigail wanted to cross the river to [...]