Moral Imagination and Adorno: Before and After Auschwitz
... Holocaust is ‘unimaginable’ but it wasn’t, it was imagined, and it took place. Discussing imagination in terms of understanding what happened, as well as tools for education post-genocide, seems an interesting and necessary direction for my project. ...
... Holocaust is ‘unimaginable’ but it wasn’t, it was imagined, and it took place. Discussing imagination in terms of understanding what happened, as well as tools for education post-genocide, seems an interesting and necessary direction for my project. ...
Ought, Agents, and Actions - Personal World Wide Web Pages
... Broome/Wedgwood alternative. The aim is to assemble in one place a wide range of the available evidence from deontic logic, syntax, semantics, normative ethics, and metaethics which bears on these questions, and at least attempt to see the forest, over the particular concerns of the linguists, logic ...
... Broome/Wedgwood alternative. The aim is to assemble in one place a wide range of the available evidence from deontic logic, syntax, semantics, normative ethics, and metaethics which bears on these questions, and at least attempt to see the forest, over the particular concerns of the linguists, logic ...
The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth about Morality
... it? Presumably not. If, somehow, the whole community were to decide that torturing cats is okay, this activity would, by the lights of most people, still be wrong. In answering these questions in the negative, one expresses an implicit theory concerning the metaphysics of morals. Moral claims, some ...
... it? Presumably not. If, somehow, the whole community were to decide that torturing cats is okay, this activity would, by the lights of most people, still be wrong. In answering these questions in the negative, one expresses an implicit theory concerning the metaphysics of morals. Moral claims, some ...
Moral Beauty as An Overriding Imperative in
... deal of debate about the cause and nature of moral principles and moral motivation. There are exceptions among western thinkers like David Hume who emphasized the superiority of affective properties to reason. But their (these philosophers) relation to Confucianism is beyond the scope of this thesis ...
... deal of debate about the cause and nature of moral principles and moral motivation. There are exceptions among western thinkers like David Hume who emphasized the superiority of affective properties to reason. But their (these philosophers) relation to Confucianism is beyond the scope of this thesis ...
Kant`s Puzzling Ethics of Maxims
... instance, fiddling about with the formulation of maxims turns out to be merely verbal. We simply cannot make our maxims fit the categorical imperative in this way. We act on the maxim that incorporates an objective suggested by an incentive, not on the maxim on which we fancy ourselves to be acting2 ...
... instance, fiddling about with the formulation of maxims turns out to be merely verbal. We simply cannot make our maxims fit the categorical imperative in this way. We act on the maxim that incorporates an objective suggested by an incentive, not on the maxim on which we fancy ourselves to be acting2 ...
met*: A Method for Discriminating Metonymy and Metaphor by
... that they rely completely on extant similarities (ibid., pp. 226-227). Johnson (1980) also notes problem (a) with comparison theories, pointing out that as a result they cannot account for the semantic tension between the two terms of a metaphor: the comparison theory ... tries to circumvent the exp ...
... that they rely completely on extant similarities (ibid., pp. 226-227). Johnson (1980) also notes problem (a) with comparison theories, pointing out that as a result they cannot account for the semantic tension between the two terms of a metaphor: the comparison theory ... tries to circumvent the exp ...
Distributional semantics in linguistic and cognitive research
... It may be presumed that any two morphemes A and B having different meanings, also differ somewhere in distribution: there are some environments in which one occurs and the other does not (Ibidem). ...
... It may be presumed that any two morphemes A and B having different meanings, also differ somewhere in distribution: there are some environments in which one occurs and the other does not (Ibidem). ...
Thesis edit2 - University of Tilburg
... might wonder on what grounds such an eventual dismissal would be based. Well, it is all in the word ‘peculiar’. There is no article in the law forbidding the wear of pajamas, nor is there any evident moral transgression made. Instead, wearing pajamas in a corporate environment relates to a social no ...
... might wonder on what grounds such an eventual dismissal would be based. Well, it is all in the word ‘peculiar’. There is no article in the law forbidding the wear of pajamas, nor is there any evident moral transgression made. Instead, wearing pajamas in a corporate environment relates to a social no ...
Enhancing Moral Conformity and Enhancing Moral Worth
... subtly discriminatory behaviour. Or perhaps we do too little to prevent or correct global problems like environmental destruction and developing-world poverty. We may not think of these moral failures, taken in isolation, as particularly grievous, but we should acknowledge that they can aggregate wi ...
... subtly discriminatory behaviour. Or perhaps we do too little to prevent or correct global problems like environmental destruction and developing-world poverty. We may not think of these moral failures, taken in isolation, as particularly grievous, but we should acknowledge that they can aggregate wi ...
Quine, Wyman, Buridan - Fordham University Faculty
... In fact, Buridan would distinguish not only between meaning and naming, or in his terminology, between signification and supposition, but even between two different sorts of signification, namely, immediate and ultimate signification, and, correspondingly, between two different sorts of supposition, ...
... In fact, Buridan would distinguish not only between meaning and naming, or in his terminology, between signification and supposition, but even between two different sorts of signification, namely, immediate and ultimate signification, and, correspondingly, between two different sorts of supposition, ...
1 Are Empathy and Morality Linked? Insights from Moral Psychology
... It has recently become problematic to maintain that morality is solely of either an emotional or a cognitive nature. On the one hand, “while we normally think of moral judgments as beliefs, they are characteristically motivating, and as Hume notes, judgments of facts alone do not have the power to m ...
... It has recently become problematic to maintain that morality is solely of either an emotional or a cognitive nature. On the one hand, “while we normally think of moral judgments as beliefs, they are characteristically motivating, and as Hume notes, judgments of facts alone do not have the power to m ...
Don`t Let it Happen Again: A Kantian Account of
... We may at first be tempted to think that Kant thinks of forgiveness as a duty of virtue (as opposed to a duty of right) because it cannot be coerced. Forgiveness doesn’t appear to be the kind of thing that can be wrung from us with the threat of punishment or hope of reward. But, if what I have arg ...
... We may at first be tempted to think that Kant thinks of forgiveness as a duty of virtue (as opposed to a duty of right) because it cannot be coerced. Forgiveness doesn’t appear to be the kind of thing that can be wrung from us with the threat of punishment or hope of reward. But, if what I have arg ...
The Moral Point of View in Hume, Kant and Mill Margaret Marie
... They will be the most important considerations in my decision-making process. From an impartial point of view, however, I must take this set of concerns and commitments and “put it in perspective”—i.e., recognize that it is merely one set among many sets of concerns and commitments. This is my set o ...
... They will be the most important considerations in my decision-making process. From an impartial point of view, however, I must take this set of concerns and commitments and “put it in perspective”—i.e., recognize that it is merely one set among many sets of concerns and commitments. This is my set o ...
On Reasons to Live Justifiably: In Support of a Humean
... rightly because she has a reason to live with others on justifiable terms, I argue that this answer is unsatisfying according to Scanlon’s own criteria of success. However, by utilizing others of his arguments, I also am able to show that he could accept (and I think should accept) the ‘complex’ vie ...
... rightly because she has a reason to live with others on justifiable terms, I argue that this answer is unsatisfying according to Scanlon’s own criteria of success. However, by utilizing others of his arguments, I also am able to show that he could accept (and I think should accept) the ‘complex’ vie ...
Why Emotivists Love Inconsistency
... person’s ethics. What I believe, though, is that the analysis of moral opinions can be the paradigm for the analyses of these other opinions. 2. The problem of reasoning An important fact about our moral thinking is that we give up moral opinions to avoid what we naturally think of as inconsistencie ...
... person’s ethics. What I believe, though, is that the analysis of moral opinions can be the paradigm for the analyses of these other opinions. 2. The problem of reasoning An important fact about our moral thinking is that we give up moral opinions to avoid what we naturally think of as inconsistencie ...
- James Tartaglia
... world’, such that we must accord ‘as much credibility to archeology as to Zuni creationism, as much credibility to evolution as to Christian creationism’ (Boghossian 2006: 4-5; see also Blackburn 2005: p. ix). In order to undermine Rorty’s ‘epistemic relativism’, Boghossian develops a version of the ...
... world’, such that we must accord ‘as much credibility to archeology as to Zuni creationism, as much credibility to evolution as to Christian creationism’ (Boghossian 2006: 4-5; see also Blackburn 2005: p. ix). In order to undermine Rorty’s ‘epistemic relativism’, Boghossian develops a version of the ...
Moral Leadership - Regent University
... enterprise. Judgments must be made in regard to competing points of view. Even if Dewey (1960: 3-28) argued that at the pre-critical, pre-rational, pre-autonomous level, morality starts as a set of culturally defined goals and rules which are external to the individual and are imposed or inculcated ...
... enterprise. Judgments must be made in regard to competing points of view. Even if Dewey (1960: 3-28) argued that at the pre-critical, pre-rational, pre-autonomous level, morality starts as a set of culturally defined goals and rules which are external to the individual and are imposed or inculcated ...
Semantic Roles of Adverbial Participial Clauses
... The great majority (about 95 per cent) of participial adverbial clauses are integrated in sentence structure. These adjuncts may perform a variety of semantic roles. According to Kortmann (1991: 119), “the process of identifying some logical role(s) for a given free adjunct/absolute is essentially d ...
... The great majority (about 95 per cent) of participial adverbial clauses are integrated in sentence structure. These adjuncts may perform a variety of semantic roles. According to Kortmann (1991: 119), “the process of identifying some logical role(s) for a given free adjunct/absolute is essentially d ...
Ethical and Epistemic Egoism and the Ideal of Autonomy Linda
... when she is conscientious in attempting to get the truth, and this trust is not based on evidence of her trustworthiness. Now if the epistemic egoist is rational, she is committed to trusting others when they are conscientious, when they have the qualities she trusts in herself. Trusting herself co ...
... when she is conscientious in attempting to get the truth, and this trust is not based on evidence of her trustworthiness. Now if the epistemic egoist is rational, she is committed to trusting others when they are conscientious, when they have the qualities she trusts in herself. Trusting herself co ...
1 Kantian Moral Psychology Michelle A. Schwarze Ph.D. Candidate
... speculative philosophy – for whom morality is “more properly felt than judg’d of” (Treatise of Human Nature III.I.2.1). For the Scots, moral worth (and moral approbation) is based on perception rather than reason. Kant claims, however, that moral worth is imbued in action only by our choice to act i ...
... speculative philosophy – for whom morality is “more properly felt than judg’d of” (Treatise of Human Nature III.I.2.1). For the Scots, moral worth (and moral approbation) is based on perception rather than reason. Kant claims, however, that moral worth is imbued in action only by our choice to act i ...
Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions
... What if my moral intuitions tell me different? Actually, another kind of answer you might give, viz., a reliabilist or consequentialist type answer, e.g., Punishing people for accidentally and non negligently causing harm does not reliably increase the amount of good in the world. But of course th ...
... What if my moral intuitions tell me different? Actually, another kind of answer you might give, viz., a reliabilist or consequentialist type answer, e.g., Punishing people for accidentally and non negligently causing harm does not reliably increase the amount of good in the world. But of course th ...
BENNETT v. HALLIE
... a strong indication the conscience is badly formed. • Wilfrid Owen is Bennett’s example of this. • Part of improving our moral code is to subject it to the test of sympathy. ...
... a strong indication the conscience is badly formed. • Wilfrid Owen is Bennett’s example of this. • Part of improving our moral code is to subject it to the test of sympathy. ...
Dieter Birnbacher - Kultura i Wartości
... good performance of the Ninth Symphony”) or prudential goodness (“a two week’s holiday would be good for you”). “Right” can also refer to technical or aesthetic rightness. “Ought”, though characteristic of moral context, is also used in the sphere of social convention, of aesthetics and in legal con ...
... good performance of the Ninth Symphony”) or prudential goodness (“a two week’s holiday would be good for you”). “Right” can also refer to technical or aesthetic rightness. “Ought”, though characteristic of moral context, is also used in the sphere of social convention, of aesthetics and in legal con ...
A Qualitative Theory of Dynamic Interactive Belief Revision
... beliefs about the state of the world after revision). For instance, our beliefs about the current situation after hearing a public announcement (say, of some factual information, denoted by an atomic sentence p) are different from our beliefs after receiving a fully private announcement with the sam ...
... beliefs about the state of the world after revision). For instance, our beliefs about the current situation after hearing a public announcement (say, of some factual information, denoted by an atomic sentence p) are different from our beliefs after receiving a fully private announcement with the sam ...
On Three Defenses of Sentimentalism
... or moral sentiments alone cannot identify appropriate morals. Yet it is possible to interpret Hutcheson, Hume, Smith, and James Wilson as claiming that there is a universal moral sense or universal moral sentiments. Hutcheson holds that the moral sense is originally implanted in us, and it is univer ...
... or moral sentiments alone cannot identify appropriate morals. Yet it is possible to interpret Hutcheson, Hume, Smith, and James Wilson as claiming that there is a universal moral sense or universal moral sentiments. Hutcheson holds that the moral sense is originally implanted in us, and it is univer ...