Professor John Haldane (who spends part of the year at the ACU) writes:
EthicsFinder.com is a free online resource intended initially, but not at all exclusively for Catholics who want to know about ethical issues and to equip themselves to understand the ideas and arguments relating to them.
Typing in a word or phrase, or selecting from within the list of themes takes users to a page with a brief micro-article introducing the topic, and a row of headings indicating different kinds of resources: Articles, Books, Videos and Faith. There are currently six themes: Life, Love, Politics, Ethics, Philosophy, Culture, and 120 or so topics and introductory micro-articles (of which, to declare an interest, I am the author). There are thousands of curated items: secular as well as religious, and critical as well as affirmative of Catholic positions.
While the first three resource headings include a wide range of material, secular as well as religious, the Faith heading gathers important Catholic documents: encyclicals, Vatican declarations and reports, and statements and guidance from Bishops’ Conferences. These will be of interest to those who want to know or are curious about what the Catholic Church teaches.
To ensure breadth of coverage and quality of curation Ethics Finder has a twelve person Advisory Board (of which I am Chair) including Roger Crisp (Oxford), Anthony Fisher (+Sydney), Kevin Flannery (Gregorian), William Hurlbut (Stanford), Philip Pettit (ANU), Thomas Joseph White (Angelicum), and Candace Vogler (Chicago). It also has a seventy person board of editorial consultants. All involved are listed on the site.
The launch is by video see here.
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