Tag: Articles
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‘In Defence of War’, A Special Issue of SCE
A Special Issue of Studies in Christian Ethics (28, no. 3) gathers together contributions to the 2014 McDonald Centre conference on Nigel’s Biggar’s In Defence of War. It also features a set of responses from the author.
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Living With Trident
Published at The Scottish Review, May 2015 IThe war against Hitler cost somewhere between 60 and 80 million lives, most of them civilian. This exceeded the human cost of the first world war by at least three times. It also reduced so much of Germany to rubble that some observers thought that she would never…
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Charlie Hebdo: Legal vs Moral Rights
The London Times recently published a letter from the Director of the McDonald Centre relating to the aftermath of the terrorist attack in Paris on January 7.
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Scottish Independence Seems Like a False God
Church Times, 05 Sep 2014 Breaking up the UK would not help anyone, argues Nigel Biggar IN A COUPLE of weeks’ time, on 18 September, the residents of Scotland will vote whether or not to leave the United Kingdom (Comment, 2 November 2012, 14 March 2014; Paul Vallely 29 August). One way or another, the outcome will affect all…
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Yes, War Can Be Just
And just war reasoning is as sound as ever “In a recent column here at The Week, Damon Linker responded to my book In Defence of War by concluding that ‘just war thinking, even at its very best, is an intellectual, moral, and theological fraud.’” Read Nigel Biggar’s response to Damon Linker’s critique in The Week.
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Michael Gove on Britain’s Involvement in the First World War
Last week Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education, published a controversial article in The Daily Mail, decrying left-wing denigration of Britain’s involvement in the First World War. In it he praised Nigel Biggar’s “superb essay” in the September issue of Standpoint magazine. You may find Mr. Gove’s article here. And Nigel Biggar’s essay below.
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Conflict: A Moral Imperative?
Prof Nigel Biggar and The Rt Hon Clare Short (Former Secretary of State for International Development) spoke at The Veritas Forum in the Garden Auditorium at St John’s College on the ethics of war and the Iraq War in particular. The debate can be viewed here.
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Religion Deserves a Place in Secular Medicine
Last month, Nigel Biggar was the keynote speaker for an event at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. In his lecture, Biggar discussed what it means for religious believers to engage with others on moral debates generally, as well as on specific matters related to medical ethics, such as abortion and euthanasia. The event, entitled Why Religion Deserves…
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What Makes Torture Wrong?
The Financial Times Magazine has recently been exploring the morality, and the alleged effectiveness, of torture in cases where it would seem to save lives. John Lloyd, an news editor at Financial Times who has worked with the McDonald Centre on ethics and the media, wrote the initial article. Nigel Biggar’s response is now generating comments in the magazine’s letters column.