Ethics Discussion Thomas N. Davidson, JD
... and should be avoided. Intrinsic goodness is the highest level of goodness and should be sought. Summum bonum is the highest moral choice and should be sought. If intrinsic goodness cannot be achieved, the highest level of non-intrinsic goodness should be sought. Whenever intrinsic evil can be avoid ...
... and should be avoided. Intrinsic goodness is the highest level of goodness and should be sought. Summum bonum is the highest moral choice and should be sought. If intrinsic goodness cannot be achieved, the highest level of non-intrinsic goodness should be sought. Whenever intrinsic evil can be avoid ...
Nel Noddings Chapter 8: Ethics and Moral Education
... Kant is said to have elevated the “right” over the “good.” • What do you think that means? Those who argue for relativity ask why, if there is such a thing as Absolute Truth, do so many believers in Absolute Truth disagree with one another? Utilitarians define morality as working to achieve the grea ...
... Kant is said to have elevated the “right” over the “good.” • What do you think that means? Those who argue for relativity ask why, if there is such a thing as Absolute Truth, do so many believers in Absolute Truth disagree with one another? Utilitarians define morality as working to achieve the grea ...
A preliminary distinction: Ethics of Justice and Ethics of Care
... Held on Feminist concerns with the discussion thus far Some of Held’s points (not directly dealing with what philosophers have said about maleness and reason [Aristotle and Rousseau and good sources for these associations]) are easily made. When attempting to distinguish humanity from nonhumanity, ...
... Held on Feminist concerns with the discussion thus far Some of Held’s points (not directly dealing with what philosophers have said about maleness and reason [Aristotle and Rousseau and good sources for these associations]) are easily made. When attempting to distinguish humanity from nonhumanity, ...
Ethical Decision Making- 5 approaches File
... The second important approach to ethics has its roots in the philosophy of the 18thcentury thinker Immanuel Kant and others like him, who focused on the individual's right to choose for herself or himself. According to these philosophers, what makes human beings different from mere things is that pe ...
... The second important approach to ethics has its roots in the philosophy of the 18thcentury thinker Immanuel Kant and others like him, who focused on the individual's right to choose for herself or himself. According to these philosophers, what makes human beings different from mere things is that pe ...
HERE - A Universal Basic Income, Economic security for all
... I agree with you wholly that philosophy cannot give religion, or indeed anything of more than intellectual interest. It seems to me increasingly that what gives one the beliefs by which one lives is of the nature of experience: it is a sudden realisation, or perhaps a gradual one, of ethical values ...
... I agree with you wholly that philosophy cannot give religion, or indeed anything of more than intellectual interest. It seems to me increasingly that what gives one the beliefs by which one lives is of the nature of experience: it is a sudden realisation, or perhaps a gradual one, of ethical values ...
The Principles of History RGCollingwood and
... mathematician may, and often does, take many results on authority, weaving them into his own investigations as so many axioms, although a good mathematician can usually prove anything he needs in principle, well aware that the value of a theorem lies less in its formulation and putative result, than ...
... mathematician may, and often does, take many results on authority, weaving them into his own investigations as so many axioms, although a good mathematician can usually prove anything he needs in principle, well aware that the value of a theorem lies less in its formulation and putative result, than ...
Mar 27 - University of San Diego
... “Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” • Maxim = principle of action. • Take a possible course of action, turn it into a maxim, and see if it can be universalized without contradiction for all people in relevantly similar circumsta ...
... “Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” • Maxim = principle of action. • Take a possible course of action, turn it into a maxim, and see if it can be universalized without contradiction for all people in relevantly similar circumsta ...
No. 7 Ralph Nelson
... reflects the influence of Dilthey's historicism. Does philosophy, in a sense, find itself back at the stage of Heraclitus, of Cratylus, and the Platonic rejection of natural science? ...
... reflects the influence of Dilthey's historicism. Does philosophy, in a sense, find itself back at the stage of Heraclitus, of Cratylus, and the Platonic rejection of natural science? ...
Philosophy without Intuitions, by Herman Cappelen. Oxford: Oxford
... That is not only because philosophy is such a salad bowl of areas and approaches, but also because metaphilosophy is itself philosophy. In order to say something interesting about philosophy as a discipline, one will have to say something interesting about first-order philosophy, too; presumably abo ...
... That is not only because philosophy is such a salad bowl of areas and approaches, but also because metaphilosophy is itself philosophy. In order to say something interesting about philosophy as a discipline, one will have to say something interesting about first-order philosophy, too; presumably abo ...
Philosophy 100 Lecture 12 Minds and bodies
... – something is clear when it is “present and apparent to an attentive mind, in the same way as we assert that we see objects clearly when, being present to the regarding eye, they operate upon it with sufficient strength.” (Principles of Philosophy, 1.45) – Example: ...
... – something is clear when it is “present and apparent to an attentive mind, in the same way as we assert that we see objects clearly when, being present to the regarding eye, they operate upon it with sufficient strength.” (Principles of Philosophy, 1.45) – Example: ...
Pragmatism and Humanism: Bergson as a reader of - PUC-SP
... after any skill fixed by nature, but by a wide range of possibilities, all of them, however, with a character originally instrumental. Whilst the instinct is itself an instrument for survival, the serious intelligence, Bergson says, is an instrument to make instruments, and is this characteristic of ...
... after any skill fixed by nature, but by a wide range of possibilities, all of them, however, with a character originally instrumental. Whilst the instinct is itself an instrument for survival, the serious intelligence, Bergson says, is an instrument to make instruments, and is this characteristic of ...
What is the relationship between moral standards and On
... right for me may not be right for someone else1. Moral philosophy has it’s roots in Ancient Greece when Aristotle raised the idea of virtue ethics which is a hierarchical way of thinking where one is first law abiding and ultimately a virtuous being, but this does not deal with the why an act is mor ...
... right for me may not be right for someone else1. Moral philosophy has it’s roots in Ancient Greece when Aristotle raised the idea of virtue ethics which is a hierarchical way of thinking where one is first law abiding and ultimately a virtuous being, but this does not deal with the why an act is mor ...
What is Philosophy, Anyway?
... able to ground their beliefs philosophically? These are issues to be taken up in the philosophy of religion as well as in theology. Finally, it is also important to clearly distinguish philosophy from art. To experience art is to be struck intuitively by something that can hardly be reduced to a col ...
... able to ground their beliefs philosophically? These are issues to be taken up in the philosophy of religion as well as in theology. Finally, it is also important to clearly distinguish philosophy from art. To experience art is to be struck intuitively by something that can hardly be reduced to a col ...
Morality and the Distinctness of Human Action
... the cultural traditions that society supports. You could intelligibly want to be the world’s greatest ballerina, but you could not intelligibly want to be the world’s only ballerina, since, at least arguably, if there were only one, there wouldn’t be any. Even for having things there is a limit to t ...
... the cultural traditions that society supports. You could intelligibly want to be the world’s greatest ballerina, but you could not intelligibly want to be the world’s only ballerina, since, at least arguably, if there were only one, there wouldn’t be any. Even for having things there is a limit to t ...
Department Away day
... like this, then you should not act like it’ something is morally right (or wrong) only if it commands or compels obedience and is binding on all persons equally it would be inconsistent and irrational to decide, for example, that you could steal from others, but they could not steal from you - thus, ...
... like this, then you should not act like it’ something is morally right (or wrong) only if it commands or compels obedience and is binding on all persons equally it would be inconsistent and irrational to decide, for example, that you could steal from others, but they could not steal from you - thus, ...
Lec 9 - Ursula Stange
... All things emanate from the One The One creates things like itself – souls And things not like itself -- matter -------------------Neoplatonism Neo-Platonism revived again by the 19th century American writers known collectively as the Transcendentalists Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau ...
... All things emanate from the One The One creates things like itself – souls And things not like itself -- matter -------------------Neoplatonism Neo-Platonism revived again by the 19th century American writers known collectively as the Transcendentalists Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau ...
A Concise Introduction to Logic, chapter 7
... disagree with it bite the bullet and claim that if tomorrow God (most theistic philosophers alive today are monotheists) loved puppy torture, adultery, random acts of cruelty, pollution, and lying, these would all be good things. (If you are inclined to say, “That’s not fair, God would never love th ...
... disagree with it bite the bullet and claim that if tomorrow God (most theistic philosophers alive today are monotheists) loved puppy torture, adultery, random acts of cruelty, pollution, and lying, these would all be good things. (If you are inclined to say, “That’s not fair, God would never love th ...
Existentialism - Midlands State University
... All existentialists have followed Kierkegaard in stressing the importance of passionate individual action in deciding questions of both morality and truth. They have insisted, accordingly, that personal experience and acting on one’s own convictions are essential in arriving at the truth. Thus, the ...
... All existentialists have followed Kierkegaard in stressing the importance of passionate individual action in deciding questions of both morality and truth. They have insisted, accordingly, that personal experience and acting on one’s own convictions are essential in arriving at the truth. Thus, the ...
Moral Argumentation from a Rhetorical Point of View
... It is a wide-spread neoaristotelian move in contemporary moral philosophy to focus on practice and character rather than on norms and rules. From this virtue ethical point of view the morality of a person is not constituted by the normative statements she rationally accepts or by the rules she is wi ...
... It is a wide-spread neoaristotelian move in contemporary moral philosophy to focus on practice and character rather than on norms and rules. From this virtue ethical point of view the morality of a person is not constituted by the normative statements she rationally accepts or by the rules she is wi ...
On validity and soundness
... All reliable cars are good cars. All Yugos are reliable cars. All Yugos are good cars. ...
... All reliable cars are good cars. All Yugos are reliable cars. All Yugos are good cars. ...
Resolving an Ethical Dilemma
... that he becomes dangerously self-righteous. Word of his exploits could lead to his being imitated by others in a way that impedes the broad social benefits that flow from respecting rights of ownership. Yet even Mill' s brand of utilitarianism cannot avoid certain difficulties. First, some question ...
... that he becomes dangerously self-righteous. Word of his exploits could lead to his being imitated by others in a way that impedes the broad social benefits that flow from respecting rights of ownership. Yet even Mill' s brand of utilitarianism cannot avoid certain difficulties. First, some question ...
ARISTOTLE`S THEORY OF TRUTH
... deny the statem ent. To speak falsity where the subject and predicate are divided affirm the statement. The former case is exemplified in the statement ‘It is not the case that Dunedin is south of Christchurch’. An example of the latter is ‘Christchurch is south of Dunedin’. I have said that Aristot ...
... deny the statem ent. To speak falsity where the subject and predicate are divided affirm the statement. The former case is exemplified in the statement ‘It is not the case that Dunedin is south of Christchurch’. An example of the latter is ‘Christchurch is south of Dunedin’. I have said that Aristot ...
July 18th as a powerpoint file (requires Powerpoint)
... (2) That which can conceivably exist in the understanding, can conceivably exist in reality. (3) It is conceivable that that than which nothing greater can be conceived exists in reality. (4) That which can conceivably exist in the understanding and in reality is greater than that which can conceiva ...
... (2) That which can conceivably exist in the understanding, can conceivably exist in reality. (3) It is conceivable that that than which nothing greater can be conceived exists in reality. (4) That which can conceivably exist in the understanding and in reality is greater than that which can conceiva ...
What is Postmodernism?
... There is no objective truthavailable to us. We are finite, limited people in a particular space and time. There is no way to have access to objective truth There is no possibility to really know anything. The brain may beconsidered only an organism that can be known through anexperiment in a la ...
... There is no objective truthavailable to us. We are finite, limited people in a particular space and time. There is no way to have access to objective truth There is no possibility to really know anything. The brain may beconsidered only an organism that can be known through anexperiment in a la ...