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Driven by a desire to eliminate pain, some people have shockingly advocated taking the rest of nature with us.
Families who lost their loved ones during the pandemic could not even properly grieve. Greek epics show why lamentation and memorial are so important and what we can learn in these times.
The problems of suffering and evil emerging in the coronavirus pandemic occupy popular evangelical fiction. In ‘The Shack,’ proliferating divine beings harken to a long-standing solution.
Images of famine or poverty are often used by human rights groups to galvanize support. And they often do. The ethics of these images is a more complex story.
More than 2,000 Canadians have chosen medical assistance in dying (MAID) since legalization in 2016. But palliative care doctors aren’t embracing assisted suicide as part of their job.
Research shows empathy itself does not have any limits. If it appears limited, it is because of people’s goals, values and choices.
Can the Nazis be forgiven? A rabbi explains why this question needs a more profound examination of some of Judaism’s deepest ethical mores and theological beliefs
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Psychotherapist, Doctoral Candidate (UofT OISE), Bear Clan Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation., University of Toronto
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Lecturer, Philosophy of Traditional Judaism, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Tufts University
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Assistant Professor, Palliative Physician, Queen's University, Ontario
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Elizabeth Kahl Figge Chair in Catholic Studies, University of Iowa
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Assistant Professor of Mental Health & Wellness; Registered Psychotherapist, Western University
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Professor of Philosophy and Head of the School of Humanities, University of Glasgow
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