Dynamic Ethics
... conceptions of privacy have changed in many ways in response to the new information technologies. The new contexts require and constitute different concepts of personal identity, different concepts of society, and also different concepts of morality. The new concepts may be very different, but not b ...
... conceptions of privacy have changed in many ways in response to the new information technologies. The new contexts require and constitute different concepts of personal identity, different concepts of society, and also different concepts of morality. The new concepts may be very different, but not b ...
Ethical Gradualism
... moral status of borderline cases. For one thing, we have thorough discussions of the ethical status of a fetus and of people with severe brain damage (such as anencephaly). To what extent do they have the moral status of persons? To what extent, do they have human rights? There are academic discussi ...
... moral status of borderline cases. For one thing, we have thorough discussions of the ethical status of a fetus and of people with severe brain damage (such as anencephaly). To what extent do they have the moral status of persons? To what extent, do they have human rights? There are academic discussi ...
The Rights of Animal Persons
... argues that humans can be “highly discriminatory” even when beings do not differ in significant ways,35 and this seems to be true of the former Apartheid regime in South Africa. Also, female infanticide is practiced in China without endangering the general population.36 However, if such fine distinc ...
... argues that humans can be “highly discriminatory” even when beings do not differ in significant ways,35 and this seems to be true of the former Apartheid regime in South Africa. Also, female infanticide is practiced in China without endangering the general population.36 However, if such fine distinc ...
Princeton University Press 2009. xv + 525 pages $99.95 (cloth ISBN
... representative of the Medicis in favour of more precise use of Logos, a dedication to transparency, and a focus on the common good. One of Benner’s themes is that Machiavelli believed that pro-social rhetoric—rhetoric that contributes to long-term social good—is dependent on the understanding and us ...
... representative of the Medicis in favour of more precise use of Logos, a dedication to transparency, and a focus on the common good. One of Benner’s themes is that Machiavelli believed that pro-social rhetoric—rhetoric that contributes to long-term social good—is dependent on the understanding and us ...
Abstract Tragedy versus Comedy. On Why Comedy is the Equal of
... of tragedy’s structure, and/or (ii) the alleged superiority of the responses tragedy calls on when compared with comedy. The ways in which these claims are taken to be true are commonly assumed to underwrite further elaborations of the general claim to superiority. Such further characterisations of ...
... of tragedy’s structure, and/or (ii) the alleged superiority of the responses tragedy calls on when compared with comedy. The ways in which these claims are taken to be true are commonly assumed to underwrite further elaborations of the general claim to superiority. Such further characterisations of ...
Local Government Ethics Law
... filing purposes. For counties and municipalities which have not established ethics boards, the board shall transmit sufficient copies of the forms to the municipal clerk in each municipality and the county clerk in each county for filing in accordance with this act. The municipal clerk shall make th ...
... filing purposes. For counties and municipalities which have not established ethics boards, the board shall transmit sufficient copies of the forms to the municipal clerk in each municipality and the county clerk in each county for filing in accordance with this act. The municipal clerk shall make th ...
A Renaissance of Realism?
... authors. Consequently, the meaning in which this label itself has been recently used by the various interpreters of these arguments and authors is equally manifold, and partly even more contradictory. What nonetheless renders this label immediately plausible, however, is the fact that it is used as ...
... authors. Consequently, the meaning in which this label itself has been recently used by the various interpreters of these arguments and authors is equally manifold, and partly even more contradictory. What nonetheless renders this label immediately plausible, however, is the fact that it is used as ...
Vegetarianism and Virtue
... that most of us are routinely doing wrong, many conclude that it must be a mistaken moral theory.^ I will turn this objection on its head and criticize a standard consequentialist perspective on the grounds that it seems to demand too little. I will argue that if consequentialism does not imply or j ...
... that most of us are routinely doing wrong, many conclude that it must be a mistaken moral theory.^ I will turn this objection on its head and criticize a standard consequentialist perspective on the grounds that it seems to demand too little. I will argue that if consequentialism does not imply or j ...
Morality and Virtue In Poetry and Philosophy
... the organisation of the text. My aim is to discuss the poem in relation to certain ethical questions and to see what relevance it has for us. In other words, the significance of the text, rather than the meaning, is the focus of my concern. Our understanding of Homer, in this sense, was not availabl ...
... the organisation of the text. My aim is to discuss the poem in relation to certain ethical questions and to see what relevance it has for us. In other words, the significance of the text, rather than the meaning, is the focus of my concern. Our understanding of Homer, in this sense, was not availabl ...
Logos, Ethos and Pathos
... • Those who wish to persuade you will play with your emotions. They may persuade you with fear, love, patriotism, guilt, hate or joy. • Although the use of pathos can be manipulative, it is the cornerstone of moving people to action and it will continue to be used again and ...
... • Those who wish to persuade you will play with your emotions. They may persuade you with fear, love, patriotism, guilt, hate or joy. • Although the use of pathos can be manipulative, it is the cornerstone of moving people to action and it will continue to be used again and ...
Understanding Ethics - The Open University
... taken in by this pretence of inevitability. We can also pretend to be taken in because it suits us to pretend. This latter is mauvaise foi in exactly Sartre’s sense.) The question that these points raise is, I suggest, the question whether in fact we need moral theory at all. Moral philosophy certai ...
... taken in by this pretence of inevitability. We can also pretend to be taken in because it suits us to pretend. This latter is mauvaise foi in exactly Sartre’s sense.) The question that these points raise is, I suggest, the question whether in fact we need moral theory at all. Moral philosophy certai ...
As a Matter of Fact: Empirical Perspectives on Ethics
... spirit, ‘surrender of the ethical burden to psychology’. And so far as we know, neither is anyone else. Ethics must not—indeed cannot—be psychology, but it does not follow that ethics should ignore psychology. The most obvious, and most compelling, motivation for our perspective is simply this: It i ...
... spirit, ‘surrender of the ethical burden to psychology’. And so far as we know, neither is anyone else. Ethics must not—indeed cannot—be psychology, but it does not follow that ethics should ignore psychology. The most obvious, and most compelling, motivation for our perspective is simply this: It i ...
Why Should We Believe Moral Claims?
... might try avoiding the skeptical threat by recourse to a coherence theory of justification, according to which beliefs are justified by their relations of mutual support with each other, rather than being built up from independently-justified foundations. In my view, there are conclusive objections ...
... might try avoiding the skeptical threat by recourse to a coherence theory of justification, according to which beliefs are justified by their relations of mutual support with each other, rather than being built up from independently-justified foundations. In my view, there are conclusive objections ...
The relevance of Kom ethics to African development
... Kom thought is inextricably linked with the normative person. When it is said: wa ghi wi wul (you are not a person) it simply means your behaviour has fallen short of the standard of being human. Good conduct forms the nucleus of Kom ethics. A person’s character is determined by his/her actions. In ...
... Kom thought is inextricably linked with the normative person. When it is said: wa ghi wi wul (you are not a person) it simply means your behaviour has fallen short of the standard of being human. Good conduct forms the nucleus of Kom ethics. A person’s character is determined by his/her actions. In ...
Some Remarks on Moral Rules - Università degli Studi di Trieste
... However, something has survived of that function. What has been left to us like an ambiguous heritage is a call for coherence between different moral norms that can guide us, not without, sometimes, the perception that there may be chances for conflicts between different practical domains. The split ...
... However, something has survived of that function. What has been left to us like an ambiguous heritage is a call for coherence between different moral norms that can guide us, not without, sometimes, the perception that there may be chances for conflicts between different practical domains. The split ...
Man as the Measure of All Things:Thoughts on Moral Perfection,
... scientifically, politically, militaristically, philosophically, and so forth. The world becomes an ultimately threatening place to inhabit. Its beauty and mystery are admirable and aweinspiring but poised for consumption, for remission into the individual—beauty leaves the world and retreats into th ...
... scientifically, politically, militaristically, philosophically, and so forth. The world becomes an ultimately threatening place to inhabit. Its beauty and mystery are admirable and aweinspiring but poised for consumption, for remission into the individual—beauty leaves the world and retreats into th ...
Ethical theories Lecture 2, MS008A 1
... Intelligence and courage are good qualities, but can be used in harmful way: robbing banks, fraud etc. Focus is on what we ought to do, not what we want to do =dutifulness = acting in a certain way according to moral rules. Kirsten Ribu - Siri Fagernes - HiO 2005 ...
... Intelligence and courage are good qualities, but can be used in harmful way: robbing banks, fraud etc. Focus is on what we ought to do, not what we want to do =dutifulness = acting in a certain way according to moral rules. Kirsten Ribu - Siri Fagernes - HiO 2005 ...
The Moral Philosophy of Bernard Williams
... when he or she judges behavior. Where skeptics seem uninterested in doing this, they have more than a simple problem of credibility. They run up against the expectation that they show why, in an ordinary day, most of us seem to navigate just fine through what can seem to be countless moral choices, ...
... when he or she judges behavior. Where skeptics seem uninterested in doing this, they have more than a simple problem of credibility. They run up against the expectation that they show why, in an ordinary day, most of us seem to navigate just fine through what can seem to be countless moral choices, ...
References - University of Leeds
... from the point of view of moral impartiality. Consider this classic example. Late one dark and stormy night a close friend arrives at your door. In a state of shock and bewilderment, she reports that she has just run down a pedestrian with her car. She says that she is quite sure that she drank one ...
... from the point of view of moral impartiality. Consider this classic example. Late one dark and stormy night a close friend arrives at your door. In a state of shock and bewilderment, she reports that she has just run down a pedestrian with her car. She says that she is quite sure that she drank one ...
Zhuangzi and the Heterogeneity of Value
... identifies five basic types of value—obligations to people, basic rights, utility, intrinsic value, and our own projects (1979, 129–130). In work partly influenced by Nagel, Larmore holds that there are at least three mutually independent types of principles of practical reason—deontic duties, conse ...
... identifies five basic types of value—obligations to people, basic rights, utility, intrinsic value, and our own projects (1979, 129–130). In work partly influenced by Nagel, Larmore holds that there are at least three mutually independent types of principles of practical reason—deontic duties, conse ...
Reductionism in Ethics (for IEE, second submission)
... Nor are all forms of naturalism forms of reductionism. Our conceptions of reduction and naturalness allow for an easy-to-overlook possibility: that there is no non-moral property to which some moral property is identical, but that this moral property is nonetheless empirically discoverable, perhaps ...
... Nor are all forms of naturalism forms of reductionism. Our conceptions of reduction and naturalness allow for an easy-to-overlook possibility: that there is no non-moral property to which some moral property is identical, but that this moral property is nonetheless empirically discoverable, perhaps ...
when supererogation is supererogatory. a case of medical ethics
... whether the good involved in the action has sufficient normative force to “motivate” the agent to act in view of its fulfillment, or, to be more precise, whether there are some elements of the action itself that mitigate such mandatory dimension, being themselves good. The moral evaluation becomes t ...
... whether the good involved in the action has sufficient normative force to “motivate” the agent to act in view of its fulfillment, or, to be more precise, whether there are some elements of the action itself that mitigate such mandatory dimension, being themselves good. The moral evaluation becomes t ...
ARISTOTLEAN VIRTUE AND CONTEMPORARY PUNISHMENT
... Although I would like to avoid, as much as possible, a political debate regarding how the “greater good” argument (which supposes there is an end, a purpose, a greater good served by a particular activity) either supports or contradicts various aspects of the republican political theory or the curre ...
... Although I would like to avoid, as much as possible, a political debate regarding how the “greater good” argument (which supposes there is an end, a purpose, a greater good served by a particular activity) either supports or contradicts various aspects of the republican political theory or the curre ...
Ethics without Ontology
... and cut his throat, whereupon my father bound him hand and foot and threw him into a ditch. Then he sent a man to Athens to find out from the seer what ought to be done-meanwhile paying no attention to the man who had been bound, neglecting him because he was a murderer and it would be no great matt ...
... and cut his throat, whereupon my father bound him hand and foot and threw him into a ditch. Then he sent a man to Athens to find out from the seer what ought to be done-meanwhile paying no attention to the man who had been bound, neglecting him because he was a murderer and it would be no great matt ...
History and Moral Exempla in Enlightenment
... examples of the first in a way that we are not by the general theories of the second. Poetry (literature) here is strongly connected to history: it gives specific, sensuous examples of the right (or wrong) form of behavior in given situations. This theory, thus, made a clear break with the tradition ...
... examples of the first in a way that we are not by the general theories of the second. Poetry (literature) here is strongly connected to history: it gives specific, sensuous examples of the right (or wrong) form of behavior in given situations. This theory, thus, made a clear break with the tradition ...