77. TIME TO EVOLVE ON GENDER - Why We Can't Ethically Support An Exclusionary Binary

March 15, 2021 by DaN McKee in Education, Ethics, Gender, Identity, LGBTQ, Philosophy, Philosophy Unleashed

“If you suggested that women should be barred from having the same rights as men because of their reproductive organs you would be laughed at or face a lawsuit for discrimination. We have overcome these old ways of thinking with technological, intellectual and emotional advances which have rendered the old narratives obsolete. Yet for some reason the myth of gender norms seems harder for people to shake despite the obvious failings of the binary male/female model.“

69. WHAT, IF ANYTHING, HAVE I LEARNT FROM HAVING COVID 19? - Reflections on Getting the Plague

January 11, 2021 by DaN McKee in Christmas, COVID19, Culture, Death, Education, Epistemology, Ethics, Free, Philosophy, Philosophy Unleashed, Politics

“now it is three weeks since the day I got my positive COVID test, and I cautiously think I may have survived it, I have decided to look back at the experience to see what, if any, philosophical lessons it taught me.“

65. IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE COVID-CHRISTMAS - Re-Thinking The 2020 Festive Season

November 23, 2020 by DaN McKee in COVID19, Culture, Death, Ethics, New Year, Philosophy, Philosophy Unleashed, Christmas

“The Grinch who steals Christmas this year isn’t COVID 19, it’s the mindset that is so rigid about what Christmas has to be it can’t conceive of doing things differently.“

49. AUTHENTIC DEMOCRACY & COVID 19: a Postscript on a Pandemic

June 14, 2020 by DaN McKee in Anarchism, Book, COVID19, Economics, Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Authentic Democracy

“Unfortunately for the world, though helpful to my book, far from illustrating the necessity of government, Covid-19 has served only to support the thesis defended within the pages of Authentic Democracy, proving even further how our current, flawed, political arrangements continue to fail us.“

38. QUESTIONS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD - Some Concerns and Queries As COVID-19 Continues To Spread

March 23, 2020 by DaN McKee in Work, School, Politics, Philosophy Unleashed, Philosophy, Obligation, Mental Health, History, Ethics, Epistemology, Education, Culture, COVID19

“the world has changed. And here are the questions arising to me as it does…”

31. GET WELL SOON - What Our Ethic of Personal Illness May Tell Us About Our Wider Hopes to be Ethical People

February 03, 2020 by DaN McKee in Ethics, Philosophy Unleashed, Philosophy, School, Work, COVID19

“Possibly our lack of ethical concern about the spreading of diseases, speaks to our larger ethical deficit when it comes to sacrificing our own immediate pleasures for the greater good of others: the clothing that we want despite the potential bad treatment of workers who made them; the holiday that we want despite the environmental impact of our journey; the social media we enjoy despite the potential epistemic breakdown it is causing for many of our civilisation-sustaining institutions… “

30. REBEL VEGETARIAN - Why It May Be Morally Right For Ethical Vegetarians and Vegans to Eat Burger King and KFC's Plant-Based Products Despite Their Non-Veggie Cooking Methods

January 27, 2020 by DaN McKee in Animal Rights, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Obligation, Philosophy, Philosophy Unleashed, Vegetarianism

“the recent story of Burger King’s “Rebel Whopper” has brought to the forefront of my mind the strange diversity of motivation which make people choose to cut out meat and/or dairy from their diets, and the resulting consequences, and potential for error, within ethical thinking.”

28. WHO ARE THESE CHARACTERS? - Questioning Using Teachers to Teach Our Children “Character”.

January 13, 2020 by DaN McKee in Education, Ethics, Identity, Philosophy Unleashed, Philosophy, Politics, School, Work

“are those of us in society who chose to be teachers within the current education system actually demonstrating good enough character to be suitable character “role models” for the next generation?”

26. OUGHT WE BE PAYING MORE FOR MUSIC? - How A Charity Single Opened My Eyes to Exploitation

December 16, 2019 by DaN McKee in Economics, Ethics, Free, Gifts, Philosophy Unleashed, Philosophy, School, Charity, Pop Culture

“while I currently can listen to all the music in the world that I want to, wherever I am, on any device, through streaming services such as Spotify, the moral philosopher in me begins to ask should I? By not properly compensating the artists I listen to with renumeration for the work they’ve done and the joy it brings me, am I not absolutely complicit in their exploitation? “

21. WHAT MUST WE REMEMBER? - On The Worth of Remembrance Day

November 10, 2019 by DaN McKee in Ethics, Philosophy Unleashed, Philosophy, Politics, School, War, Militarisation

“as long as we have had Remembrance Day and worn our red poppies, we have continued to have wars. If we truly want to honour those whose lives were lost saving the lives of others we ought to put every effort we can into ensuring the sorts of wars which cost them their lives are never fought again.”

19. ON THE NEED FOR A SECOND REFERENDUM - Why I Joined The People’s March

October 19, 2019 by DaN McKee in Ethics, Philosophy, Philosophy Unleashed, Politics

“The reason we see lifetime terms as undemocratic is because it is built into the fabric of a democracy that one vote is not enough. The mood of the nation is checked every four or five years for them to reconfirm their last electoral decision, or change their minds about the direction they want their country to go in. There seems no good reason to me why that same principle does not apply for something as significant as Brexit.”

1. END GAME - The Ethics of Spoiling

April 29, 2019 by DaN McKee in Philosophy Unleashed, Ethics, Pop Culture

“Those who ‘spoil’ movies and TV shows for other people are moral monsters, just not for the reasons I thought they were”