PROSPER: Promoting Social and Political Ethics Research

Centre for Applied Ethics

Responsibility, blameworthiness and forgiveness
The ethics of ignorance and belief
Reparations for past injustice: who owes what to whom?
The ethical nature of attention and inattention
Conceptual ethics: investigating the adequacy of the concepts by means of which we reason about politics and society.
The ethics of immigration and the problem of xenophobia.
The ethics of resistance: when is it justified to resist the laws of a democratic society and what are the legitimate forms of such resistance?
Ownership, extraction and the ethics of natural resources
The ethics of institutions: how should we design social and political institutions so that they promote virtuous action on the part of those whose conduct it regulates?

D Suter: “Resentment as a moral emotion”
H Froneman: “Post-truth politics and democratic deliberation”
E Phiri: “In defence of the public-private distinction with regard to sexual orientation: Zambia as a case study”
P Komu: “Being harmed and harming: government responsibility for inadequate healthcare”