Archive for April, 2010

Douglas Rasmussen on “Natural Goodness”

Shawn Klein April 28th, 2010

Dr. Douglas Rasmussen, our final guest speaker of Spring 2010, gave two lectures at Rockford College recently. Dr. Rasmussen is professor of philosophy at St. John’s University in New York and is coauthor (with Douglas J. Den Uyl) of Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics (2005). Here, Dr. Stephen Hicks interviews Dr. Rasmussen about his talk on Philippa Foot’s book Natural Goodness, given to our Ethical Theory class:

Interview with Philippa Foot

Shawn Klein April 14th, 2010

For Ethical Theory, students may be interested in this interview with Philippa Foot.
The Grammar of Goodness