Tony Milligan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4396833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Milligan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Milligan |
| SIGNATURE | MILLIGAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Theology & Religious Studies, King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8453-9764 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ethics of Political Dissent
Love and Animals
This chapter presents a defense of the depth and appropriateness of love for and by nonhuman animals in the face of attempts to marginalize both. Objections to the very idea of animal love generally appeal to the dangers of anthropomorphism when the dangers of anthropocentrism are at least as great. Or they appeal to the dangers of sentimentality but, in doing so, require love for or by animals to meet standards that our love for one another ofte…
The Ethics of Space Exploration
Ethics of Space Exploration
The Ethics of Space Exploration
Robert Garner
Love in dark times
After situating Iris Murdoch's promotion of openness to love within a broadly Platonic ethic, I outline a familiar suspicion about such openness in the context of grief, where the finding of a new and intimate love may seem inappropriate. By drawing upon her treatment of spiritual crisis and grief as parallel instances of the void, I respond to this suspicion by arguing that love in the context of spiritual crisis offers a way to resist the dange…
Love
Does love conquer all? Is it a many splendored thing? Or is it, as Schopenhauer thought, just nature s way of duping us into producing the next generation? What s good about being in the grip of a delusion that requires a ridiculously inflated estimation of the subject of our affections? How can the grasping, selfish, egocentric behaviour that intimate love brings be a subject worthy of poets? Philosopher Tony Milligan brings his keen analytical …
Beyond Animal Rights
Introduction 1. The Depth of Meat Eating 2. An Unspoken Contract? 3. Vegetarianism and Puritanism 4. Diet and Sustainability 5. The Impossible Scenario 6. Love for Pets 7. Experimentation in Context Further Reading Index
Lockean Puzzles
In analytic moral philosophy it is standard to use unrealistic puzzles to set up moral dilemmas of a sort that I will call Lockean Puzzles. This paper will try to pinpoint just what is and what is not problematic about their use as a teaching tool or component part of philosophical arguments. I will try to flesh out the claim that what may be lost sight of in such Lockean puzzling is the personal dimension of moral deliberation—for example, moral…
Murdochian humility
The following paper sets out a view of humility that is derived from Iris Murdoch but which differs from a strict Murdochian approach in two important respects. Firstly, any association with self-abnegation is removed; and secondly, the value of a limited form of pride (recognition pride) is affirmed. The paper is nevertheless strongly continuous with her work, in the sense that it builds upon her rejection of universalizability on the specific g…
Mortality and the Other
The evasion of mortality is a concern for both Heidegger and contemporary Wittgensteinians. Nevertheless, their responses are significantly different. Heidegger treats death as in every instance “mine,” as the ownmost possibility of an individual. While this allows him to stress the personal nature of our mortality, it also leads him to direct attention away from what we can learn by considering the mortality of the other. This paper will contend…
The British Union of Fascists' Policy in Relation to Scotland
Love
Does love conquer all? Is it a many splendored thing? Or is it, as Schopenhauer thought, just nature s way of duping us into producing the next generation? What s good about being in the grip of a delusion that requires a ridiculously inflated estimation of the subject of our affections? How can the grasping, selfish, egocentric behaviour that intimate love brings be a subject worthy of poets? Philosopher Tony Milligan brings his keen analytical …
The British Union of Fascists' Policy in Relation to Scotland
Murdochian humility
The following paper sets out a view of humility that is derived from Iris Murdoch but which differs from a strict Murdochian approach in two important respects. Firstly, any association with self-abnegation is removed; and secondly, the value of a limited form of pride (recognition pride) is affirmed. The paper is nevertheless strongly continuous with her work, in the sense that it builds upon her rejection of universalizability on the specific g…
Mortality and the Other
The evasion of mortality is a concern for both Heidegger and contemporary Wittgensteinians. Nevertheless, their responses are significantly different. Heidegger treats death as in every instance “mine,” as the ownmost possibility of an individual. While this allows him to stress the personal nature of our mortality, it also leads him to direct attention away from what we can learn by considering the mortality of the other. This paper will contend…
Lockean Puzzles
In analytic moral philosophy it is standard to use unrealistic puzzles to set up moral dilemmas of a sort that I will call Lockean Puzzles. This paper will try to pinpoint just what is and what is not problematic about their use as a teaching tool or component part of philosophical arguments. I will try to flesh out the claim that what may be lost sight of in such Lockean puzzling is the personal dimension of moral deliberation—for example, moral…
Beyond Animal Rights
Introduction 1. The Depth of Meat Eating 2. An Unspoken Contract? 3. Vegetarianism and Puritanism 4. Diet and Sustainability 5. The Impossible Scenario 6. Love for Pets 7. Experimentation in Context Further Reading Index
Love
Does love conquer all? Is it a many splendored thing? Or is it, as Schopenhauer thought, just nature s way of duping us into producing the next generation? What s good about being in the grip of a delusion that requires a ridiculously inflated estimation of the subject of our affections? How can the grasping, selfish, egocentric behaviour that intimate love brings be a subject worthy of poets? Philosopher Tony Milligan brings his keen analytical …
Love in dark times
After situating Iris Murdoch's promotion of openness to love within a broadly Platonic ethic, I outline a familiar suspicion about such openness in the context of grief, where the finding of a new and intimate love may seem inappropriate. By drawing upon her treatment of spiritual crisis and grief as parallel instances of the void, I respond to this suspicion by arguing that love in the context of spiritual crisis offers a way to resist the dange…
Robert Garner
The Ethics of Space Exploration
Ethics of Space Exploration
The Ethics of Space Exploration
Love and Animals
This chapter presents a defense of the depth and appropriateness of love for and by nonhuman animals in the face of attempts to marginalize both. Objections to the very idea of animal love generally appeal to the dangers of anthropomorphism when the dangers of anthropocentrism are at least as great. Or they appeal to the dangers of sentimentality but, in doing so, require love for or by animals to meet standards that our love for one another ofte…
Ethics of Political Dissent
Philosophy (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · History (3 works)