Humanist Perspectives: issue 209, Summer 2019
Issue 209, Summer 2019
Humanist Perspectives is a refreshing, rational analysis of modern events and culture and is available at select magazine stores or by online subscription.
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Inside Front Cover
- In the News – A Rush to Sainthood
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Beatification of Jody Wilson-Raybould might be a little premature
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Editorial
- Conscience, Justice and the Law
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The interplay of conscience, justice and the law is complicated, but we should not ignore the inner voice that tells us what is right and what is wrong.
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Features
- Intrinsic Goodness
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Is the assumption of modern economic theory, that people are inherently, and primarily, selfish, correct? Or is conscience a more powerful motivator of human behaviour?
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- Conscience and the Law
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What do we do when our moral principles are in conflict with the law? Should you “let your conscience be your guide?”
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- The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn
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Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contains one of the most famous literary explorations of the conflict between morality and the law
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- MAID ReMade
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Canada’s new law on Medical Assistance in Dying is logically flawed, but correcting the error is politically difficult.
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- A Troubling Case
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What should we do with reformed child soldiers? The case of Dominic Ongwen.
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- Wild Justice
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Johnston explores the theme of revenge in ancient and in modern storytelling, and how the idea affects the administration of justice.
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- Civil Disobedience
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What is civil disobedience and how does it relate to the idea of the rule of law?
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- Cannabis Amnesty
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Should those people arrested for possession of marijuana, before it was decriminalized, now retain a criminal record?
- Shame, Guilt and Conscience
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We should pay more attention to the goodness around us.
- In addition, Humanist Perspectives offers a lively Letters-to-the-Editor section as well as Book Reviews, books available for review and snippets of international news of interest to humanists.