Moral Responsibility in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Angie Allard, Simon Fraser University download this essay as a pdf file: Allard_Frankenstein American philosopher Martha Nussbaum believes that everyone has the capacity for evil and that it is more closely connected with circumstance than with any innate human quality. In Upheavals of Thought she writes, … in reality it seems likely that all humans [...]

Taking care of the earth body: Using the metaphor of illness to approach environmental issues

Sandy Penn, Simon Fraser University Download this essay: Sandy Penn_nature culture “The Earth’s declining health is our most important concern, our very lives depending upon a healthy earth,” states Lovelock (2006) in his book, Revenge of Gaia.  Brian Handwerk[1] used the same metaphor in his article “The Earth’s Health in Sharp Decline, Massive Study Finds,”  [...]

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