The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth about Morality
... cognitive science, and evolutionary theory to explain why moral realism appears to be true even though it is not. I then argue, based on the picture of moral psychology developed herein, that realist moral language and thought promotes misunderstanding and exacerbates conflict. I consider a number o ...
... cognitive science, and evolutionary theory to explain why moral realism appears to be true even though it is not. I then argue, based on the picture of moral psychology developed herein, that realist moral language and thought promotes misunderstanding and exacerbates conflict. I consider a number o ...
Moral Imagination and Adorno: Before and After Auschwitz
... unite the theory with Adorno’s, revealing how the two are mutually beneficial, as well as compatible. The ultimate aim of the project is to offer a possibility for education post Auschwitz. In particular, I suggest that certain imaginative memorials and museums can have a powerful impact on their vi ...
... unite the theory with Adorno’s, revealing how the two are mutually beneficial, as well as compatible. The ultimate aim of the project is to offer a possibility for education post Auschwitz. In particular, I suggest that certain imaginative memorials and museums can have a powerful impact on their vi ...
Moral Beauty as An Overriding Imperative in
... Third and finally, the project will show the nuances of these Confucian concepts and how they shed light on the current debate about moral imperatives. The hypothesis we will be working on is the statement that the Moral Aesthetic is an overriding imperative in moral motivation that supervenes from ...
... Third and finally, the project will show the nuances of these Confucian concepts and how they shed light on the current debate about moral imperatives. The hypothesis we will be working on is the statement that the Moral Aesthetic is an overriding imperative in moral motivation that supervenes from ...
Objective Morality_final
... blame must, of course, be mediated by a more specific theory of moral character and the appropriateness of blame, which I shall not offer here. Furthermore, I do not want to state the connection between these concepts too strongly. It is likely that any connection between virtuous decisionmaking, pr ...
... blame must, of course, be mediated by a more specific theory of moral character and the appropriateness of blame, which I shall not offer here. Furthermore, I do not want to state the connection between these concepts too strongly. It is likely that any connection between virtuous decisionmaking, pr ...
Beyond Evaluation Standards?
... For most people in the evaluation community today the issue of evaluation standards is no longer ‘hot’ news. It is however the current authors’ opinion that the need remains for a critical analysis of current evaluation standards. What then are we talking about when discussing the ethics of evaluati ...
... For most people in the evaluation community today the issue of evaluation standards is no longer ‘hot’ news. It is however the current authors’ opinion that the need remains for a critical analysis of current evaluation standards. What then are we talking about when discussing the ethics of evaluati ...
Enhancing Moral Conformity and Enhancing Moral Worth
... moral failures, bringing it about that we better conform to morality.3 However, this is not to say that we ought to pursue greater moral conformity by any means available. There may be some means to increased moral conformity that we have conclusive moral reasons to avoid, and even among means that ...
... moral failures, bringing it about that we better conform to morality.3 However, this is not to say that we ought to pursue greater moral conformity by any means available. There may be some means to increased moral conformity that we have conclusive moral reasons to avoid, and even among means that ...
Universally Preferable Behaviour
... These extreme relativists reserve their most vitriolic attacks for anyone who claims any form of certainty. This postmodern generation has outgrown the cultural bigotries of their collective histories, but now view all truth as mere prejudicial assertion. Like wide-eyed children who have been scarre ...
... These extreme relativists reserve their most vitriolic attacks for anyone who claims any form of certainty. This postmodern generation has outgrown the cultural bigotries of their collective histories, but now view all truth as mere prejudicial assertion. Like wide-eyed children who have been scarre ...
On Three Defenses of Sentimentalism
... If this is the case, some standard is necessary to identify the distortion. This standard must be different from the moral sense because the moral sense alone cannot recognize the distortion. If the moral sense alone could recognize it, there would not be the distortion from the beginning. Therefore ...
... If this is the case, some standard is necessary to identify the distortion. This standard must be different from the moral sense because the moral sense alone cannot recognize the distortion. If the moral sense alone could recognize it, there would not be the distortion from the beginning. Therefore ...
Is There Moral High Ground?
... there capable of impartially adjudicating stubborn crosscultural moral disagreement. There is no higher authority. From a disengaged point of view, there is no moral truth as such. This is the unhappy theoretical downside to truth’s being immanent. (It is, by the way, the reason Putnam in Reason, Tr ...
... there capable of impartially adjudicating stubborn crosscultural moral disagreement. There is no higher authority. From a disengaged point of view, there is no moral truth as such. This is the unhappy theoretical downside to truth’s being immanent. (It is, by the way, the reason Putnam in Reason, Tr ...
Thesis edit2 - University of Tilburg
... ourselves, it is not novel. Over time, many philosophers and scientists have asked themselves the very same question. Biologists have tried to find answers in the search for a moral faculty in the brain (see e.g. Dwyer, 1999; Mikhail, 2000), moral psychologists have targeted (out of many) convention ...
... ourselves, it is not novel. Over time, many philosophers and scientists have asked themselves the very same question. Biologists have tried to find answers in the search for a moral faculty in the brain (see e.g. Dwyer, 1999; Mikhail, 2000), moral psychologists have targeted (out of many) convention ...
1 Are Empathy and Morality Linked? Insights from Moral Psychology
... Deontological theories assign a special role to duties (“deontology” refers to the study or science of duty, from the Ancient Greek deon = duty). Duties are actions that follow one or more principled rules. From this perspective, the rightness or wrongness of an action is not so much determined by t ...
... Deontological theories assign a special role to duties (“deontology” refers to the study or science of duty, from the Ancient Greek deon = duty). Duties are actions that follow one or more principled rules. From this perspective, the rightness or wrongness of an action is not so much determined by t ...
A Plea for Moral Deference
... every normal adult human being is equally capable (in principle) of working out the requirements of morality. Moral truths are therefore all fully accessible in principle to every ordinary person. We can regiment this landscape by saying that there are no moral ‘experts’ (in it). All the same, it si ...
... every normal adult human being is equally capable (in principle) of working out the requirements of morality. Moral truths are therefore all fully accessible in principle to every ordinary person. We can regiment this landscape by saying that there are no moral ‘experts’ (in it). All the same, it si ...
Ethical Absolutism and Relativism
... Ethics: The Study of Moral Philosophy (Cont.) • Intermediate position: ethics and moral judgments change over time – What is right (or wrong) at one point in the development of a social system may be wrong (or right) at another point – Ethical systems evolve with the requirements of a social system ...
... Ethics: The Study of Moral Philosophy (Cont.) • Intermediate position: ethics and moral judgments change over time – What is right (or wrong) at one point in the development of a social system may be wrong (or right) at another point – Ethical systems evolve with the requirements of a social system ...
The Rise of History: Kant, Herder, and the End of the Enlightenment
... and other primitive cultures, providing an anthropological perspective of mankind never before experienced. The job of a historian, in Herder’s tradition, is to “suit his standards to his subject and not, conversely, to make his subject fit into a uniform, stereotyped pattern.”11 Aristotle’s judgmen ...
... and other primitive cultures, providing an anthropological perspective of mankind never before experienced. The job of a historian, in Herder’s tradition, is to “suit his standards to his subject and not, conversely, to make his subject fit into a uniform, stereotyped pattern.”11 Aristotle’s judgmen ...
LaNdscaPe ethIcs a moral commitment to responsible regional
... and moral patient, which would prevent the existence of obligations towards beings that were not also moral agents and reciprocal parties to the contract as a moral underpinning. In this respect, Taylor (1986) tries to distinguish between the material conditions of human ethics and those governing e ...
... and moral patient, which would prevent the existence of obligations towards beings that were not also moral agents and reciprocal parties to the contract as a moral underpinning. In this respect, Taylor (1986) tries to distinguish between the material conditions of human ethics and those governing e ...
Introduction to Moral Reasoning in Sport
... Moral Value Versus Nonmoral Value Relative worth placed on an extrinsic objective value in relation to the worth placed on a universal value manifested through motives, intentions, and actions that impinge on and or affect other individuals ...
... Moral Value Versus Nonmoral Value Relative worth placed on an extrinsic objective value in relation to the worth placed on a universal value manifested through motives, intentions, and actions that impinge on and or affect other individuals ...
Rightness and Responsibility
... While allowing for these possibilities, however, the motivation condition, as I have formulated it, still gives expression to the idea that there is a noncontingent connection between morality and motivation. At its heart is the thesis that rightness and other moral considerations represent reasons ...
... While allowing for these possibilities, however, the motivation condition, as I have formulated it, still gives expression to the idea that there is a noncontingent connection between morality and motivation. At its heart is the thesis that rightness and other moral considerations represent reasons ...
Kant`s Schematism and the Foundations of Mathematics
... gets the impression that it is a careless writer, not knowing precisely what he wants to say.1 The wonder does not diminish when realizing that nothing is changed in the second edition.2 Kant made substantial notes in his own copy of the first edition, but none of them found their way to the second ...
... gets the impression that it is a careless writer, not knowing precisely what he wants to say.1 The wonder does not diminish when realizing that nothing is changed in the second edition.2 Kant made substantial notes in his own copy of the first edition, but none of them found their way to the second ...
Ethical Behavior - Northwest Missouri State University
... rights to make one's own choices about what kind of life to lead, to be told the truth, not to be injured, to a degree of privacy, and so on-is widely debated; some now argue that non-humans have rights, too. Also, it is often said that rights imply duties - in particular, the duty to respect others ...
... rights to make one's own choices about what kind of life to lead, to be told the truth, not to be injured, to a degree of privacy, and so on-is widely debated; some now argue that non-humans have rights, too. Also, it is often said that rights imply duties - in particular, the duty to respect others ...
“I believe this will become the standard in the field of biblical ethics
... are different things that are closely connected. All worthy teaching of Christian ethics should be biblical in the sense of being faithful to biblical moral revelation, centered on biblical content, and compatible with biblical framing of reality and truth. But biblical ethics is distinct in that it ...
... are different things that are closely connected. All worthy teaching of Christian ethics should be biblical in the sense of being faithful to biblical moral revelation, centered on biblical content, and compatible with biblical framing of reality and truth. But biblical ethics is distinct in that it ...
The goodness of pleasure: Epicurean ethics
... Stoics identify morality/virtue as the only good. How do they account for the other things in life that people typically value (e.g. wealth, health, honour)? Stoics believe that the goodness of morality has a natural basis. What is this basis? How do humans come to recognize morality as the good? Wh ...
... Stoics identify morality/virtue as the only good. How do they account for the other things in life that people typically value (e.g. wealth, health, honour)? Stoics believe that the goodness of morality has a natural basis. What is this basis? How do humans come to recognize morality as the good? Wh ...
Euthanasia
... Ethical view of Euthanasia Virtue Theory [I]f virtue theory is described as a moral right if the individual is acting in a manner which is in accordance with what a “good model citizen” would do then euthanasia can never be considered as the morally right thing to do. Aristotle also applied this co ...
... Ethical view of Euthanasia Virtue Theory [I]f virtue theory is described as a moral right if the individual is acting in a manner which is in accordance with what a “good model citizen” would do then euthanasia can never be considered as the morally right thing to do. Aristotle also applied this co ...
Moral Leadership - Regent University
... They make us do what we should do, not what we want to do. They encourage following the “superego” and not the “id.” The author pictured a moral leader as someone who supposedly tells people the difference between right and wrong from on high through his or her daily behaviors. Here, the praxis spea ...
... They make us do what we should do, not what we want to do. They encourage following the “superego” and not the “id.” The author pictured a moral leader as someone who supposedly tells people the difference between right and wrong from on high through his or her daily behaviors. Here, the praxis spea ...
Moral Rationalism and Rational Amoralism
... person who sincerely expresses a judgment that an action is morally right and who yet remains unmoved, it will be a case in which that person is abnormal in some way and one where other normal people appropriately related to that person would be moved by such a judgment. Following Dreier, I will cal ...
... person who sincerely expresses a judgment that an action is morally right and who yet remains unmoved, it will be a case in which that person is abnormal in some way and one where other normal people appropriately related to that person would be moved by such a judgment. Following Dreier, I will cal ...
Responsible Tourism and Hotel Management
... organizational practices and procedures that have ethical content”. (Ferrell and Gresham 1985) found that the climate for unethical conduct exists when the codes of ethics, policies and directives of a company that stipulate, discourage, control, monitor and discipline unethical behavior are not enf ...
... organizational practices and procedures that have ethical content”. (Ferrell and Gresham 1985) found that the climate for unethical conduct exists when the codes of ethics, policies and directives of a company that stipulate, discourage, control, monitor and discipline unethical behavior are not enf ...
Kantian ethics
Kantian ethics refers to a deontological ethical theory ascribed to the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. The theory, developed as a result of Enlightenment rationalism, is based on the view that the only intrinsically good thing is a good will; an action can only be good if its maxim – the principle behind it – is duty to the moral law. Central to Kant's construction of the moral law is the categorical imperative, which acts on all people, regardless of their interests or desires. Kant formulated the categorical imperative in various ways. His principle of universalisability requires that, for an action to be permissible, it must be possible to apply it to all people without a contradiction occurring. His formulation of humanity as an end in itself requires that humans are never treated merely as a means to an end, but always also as ends in themselves. The formulation of autonomy concludes that rational agents are bound to the moral law by their own will, while Kant's concept of the Kingdom of Ends requires that people act as if the principles of their actions establish a law for a hypothetical kingdom. Kant also distinguished between perfect and imperfect duties. A perfect duty, such as the duty not to lie, always holds true; an imperfect duty, such as the duty to give to charity, can be made flexible and applied in particular time and place.American philosopher Louis Pojman has cited Pietism, political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the modern debate between rationalism and empiricism, and the influence of natural law as influences on the development of Kant's ethics. Other philosophers have argued that Kant's parents and his teacher, Martin Knutzen, influenced his ethics. Those influenced by Kantian ethics include philosopher Jürgen Habermas, political philosopher John Rawls, and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel criticised Kant for not providing specific enough detail in his moral theory to affect decision-making and for denying human nature. German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer argued that ethics should attempt to describe how people behave and criticised Kant for being prescriptive. Michael Stocker has argued that acting out of duty can diminish other moral motivations such as friendship, while Marcia Baron has defended the theory by arguing that duty does not diminish other motivations. The Catholic Church has criticised Kant's ethics as contradictory and regards Christian ethics as more compatible with virtue ethics.The claim that all humans are due dignity and respect as autonomous agents means that medical professionals should be happy for their treatments to be performed upon anyone, and that patients must never be treated merely as useful for society. Kant's approach to sexual ethics emerged from his view that humans should never be used merely as a means to an end, leading him to regard sexual activity as degrading and to condemn certain specific sexual practices. Feminist philosophers have used Kantian ethics to condemn practices such as prostitution and pornography because they do not treat women as ends. Kant also believed that, because animals do not possess rationality, we cannot have duties to them except indirect duties not to develop immoral dispositions through cruelty towards them. Kant used the example of lying as an application of his ethics: because there is a perfect duty to tell the truth, we must never lie, even if it seems that lying would bring about better consequences than telling the truth.