two-column Word document - Unitarian Universalist Association
... our own wish to live a moral life? This program invites participants to focus attention on the moral and ethical questions that arise or have arisen in their lives, including challenges not yet perceived or acknowledged, and explore the ethical frameworks that can help in sorting through a dilemma. ...
... our own wish to live a moral life? This program invites participants to focus attention on the moral and ethical questions that arise or have arisen in their lives, including challenges not yet perceived or acknowledged, and explore the ethical frameworks that can help in sorting through a dilemma. ...
WHAT WE CHOOSE: ETHICS FOR UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS A
... help us fulfill our own wish to live a moral life? This program invites participants to focus attention on the moral and ethical questions that arise or have arisen in their lives, including challenges not yet perceived or acknowledged, and explore the ethical frameworks that can help in sorting thr ...
... help us fulfill our own wish to live a moral life? This program invites participants to focus attention on the moral and ethical questions that arise or have arisen in their lives, including challenges not yet perceived or acknowledged, and explore the ethical frameworks that can help in sorting thr ...
Virtue Ethics - Which Character Traits are Good?
... bad for person b/c never satisfied with what she has bad for others (confrontational, person will tend to grab more than fair-share whenever possible) is everyone greedy? ...
... bad for person b/c never satisfied with what she has bad for others (confrontational, person will tend to grab more than fair-share whenever possible) is everyone greedy? ...
Dieter Birnbacher - Kultura i Wartości
... More frequent than too broad explications of the concept of morality have been too narrow explications, mainly because philosophers have insufficiently paid attention to the difference between the question what the features are of morality in general and what are the features of the right, valid or ...
... More frequent than too broad explications of the concept of morality have been too narrow explications, mainly because philosophers have insufficiently paid attention to the difference between the question what the features are of morality in general and what are the features of the right, valid or ...
Beyond Evaluation Standards?
... side). Our claim here is that different moral theories offer different justifications for similar ethical principles (MacIntyre, 1987; Norman, 1991). This means that moral theories must be identified, and must be validated as to how they can offer different justifications for a common set of moral p ...
... side). Our claim here is that different moral theories offer different justifications for similar ethical principles (MacIntyre, 1987; Norman, 1991). This means that moral theories must be identified, and must be validated as to how they can offer different justifications for a common set of moral p ...
Introduction
... i) The paradox of morality and advantage (a) Lingering problem: why should I be moral all of the time (b) Expressed in this paradox 1. If an act is morally right, then it must be reasonable to do it 2. If it is reasonable to do the act, then it must be in my interest to do it 3. But sometimes the re ...
... i) The paradox of morality and advantage (a) Lingering problem: why should I be moral all of the time (b) Expressed in this paradox 1. If an act is morally right, then it must be reasonable to do it 2. If it is reasonable to do the act, then it must be in my interest to do it 3. But sometimes the re ...
Introduction
... i) The paradox of morality and advantage (a) Lingering problem: why should I be moral all of the time (b) Expressed in this paradox 1. If an act is morally right, then it must be reasonable to do it 2. If it is reasonable to do the act, then it must be in my interest to do it 3. But sometimes the re ...
... i) The paradox of morality and advantage (a) Lingering problem: why should I be moral all of the time (b) Expressed in this paradox 1. If an act is morally right, then it must be reasonable to do it 2. If it is reasonable to do the act, then it must be in my interest to do it 3. But sometimes the re ...
"Nihilism" encyclopedia entry - Victoria University of Wellington
... same way, moral nihilists may be loving friends, keen cooperators, and steadfast citizens— and yet the images that tend to spring to mind upon hearing the word “nihilist” involve radical countercultural political affiliations or a kind of morbid anomie. These images have more to do with political ni ...
... same way, moral nihilists may be loving friends, keen cooperators, and steadfast citizens— and yet the images that tend to spring to mind upon hearing the word “nihilist” involve radical countercultural political affiliations or a kind of morbid anomie. These images have more to do with political ni ...
Save - Yimg
... At the individual level, Dr. Sakiz felt pressured to question his own ethics as both as a medical doctor and as an advocate of women’s rights. On another level, as a business professional, he had an obligation to help his company earn a profit. It was suggested that he may have had a crisis of consc ...
... At the individual level, Dr. Sakiz felt pressured to question his own ethics as both as a medical doctor and as an advocate of women’s rights. On another level, as a business professional, he had an obligation to help his company earn a profit. It was suggested that he may have had a crisis of consc ...
The Strategic Position Strategic Purpose
... Organisation values - to embed a set of ethical values into the organisations goals and strategies and the way it seeks to do what it does Ethical behaviour - to provide guidance and support to staff for making decisions and carrying out their work in a way that is compatible with the organisation's ...
... Organisation values - to embed a set of ethical values into the organisations goals and strategies and the way it seeks to do what it does Ethical behaviour - to provide guidance and support to staff for making decisions and carrying out their work in a way that is compatible with the organisation's ...
HUMAN_CLONING - HLWW Public Schools
... Go to this site to learn more about cloning and to read a discussion about the ethics of cloning. What are some of the legal issues involved in cloning of humans? Legislation Pertaining to Cloning Human Beings. Go to this site to see what laws govern human cloning in the United States. What are some ...
... Go to this site to learn more about cloning and to read a discussion about the ethics of cloning. What are some of the legal issues involved in cloning of humans? Legislation Pertaining to Cloning Human Beings. Go to this site to see what laws govern human cloning in the United States. What are some ...
Intro to Animal Welfare
... a dying and deceased matriarch. Applied Animal Behaviour, 100, 87-102. Fraser, D. (2008). Understanding Animal Welfare. The science in its cultural context. (pp. 262-266).Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. Heleski, C. R., & Anthony, R. (2012). Science alone is not always enough: The importance of ethical asse ...
... a dying and deceased matriarch. Applied Animal Behaviour, 100, 87-102. Fraser, D. (2008). Understanding Animal Welfare. The science in its cultural context. (pp. 262-266).Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. Heleski, C. R., & Anthony, R. (2012). Science alone is not always enough: The importance of ethical asse ...
Street`s Evolutionary Debunking Argument: Nuancing A Moral
... Oxford University Press. FitzPatrick, W.J., 2014a, “Debunking Evolutionary Debunking of Ethical Realism,”Philo sophical Studies, doi: 10.1007/s11098-014-0295-y. FitzPatrick, W.J., 2014b, “Why There is No Darwinian Dilemma for Ethical Realism,” in M. Bergmannand P. Kain (eds.), Challenges to Moral a ...
... Oxford University Press. FitzPatrick, W.J., 2014a, “Debunking Evolutionary Debunking of Ethical Realism,”Philo sophical Studies, doi: 10.1007/s11098-014-0295-y. FitzPatrick, W.J., 2014b, “Why There is No Darwinian Dilemma for Ethical Realism,” in M. Bergmannand P. Kain (eds.), Challenges to Moral a ...
Colonialism and Postcolonialism - General Guide To Personal and
... historically mistreated peoples have themselves been harmed by colonial injustice, as a result of a deeply controversial argument that such persons may in fact have gained a net benefit from the treatment of their ancestors (Ferguson 2002). This claim must be assessed carefully. It does not in itsel ...
... historically mistreated peoples have themselves been harmed by colonial injustice, as a result of a deeply controversial argument that such persons may in fact have gained a net benefit from the treatment of their ancestors (Ferguson 2002). This claim must be assessed carefully. It does not in itsel ...
Personal Ethics and Fraudster Motivation: The Missing Link in Fraud
... principle that governs a person’s behaviour or how an activity is conducted”. The synonyms of ethics as per Collins Thesaurus are - conscience, moral code, morality, moral philosophy, moral values, principles, rules of conduct, standards. Ethics refers to well-founded standards of right and wrong th ...
... principle that governs a person’s behaviour or how an activity is conducted”. The synonyms of ethics as per Collins Thesaurus are - conscience, moral code, morality, moral philosophy, moral values, principles, rules of conduct, standards. Ethics refers to well-founded standards of right and wrong th ...
2 Booklet 2 Utilitarianism
... Some more explanations Extract from Joe Jenkins Ethics and Religion 1999 Mill believed that his Utilitarian ethic had caught the very spirit of the Golden Rule (to treat others as you could want them to treat us). However, Christian love knows no limit and is prepared to go not one mile but two. To ...
... Some more explanations Extract from Joe Jenkins Ethics and Religion 1999 Mill believed that his Utilitarian ethic had caught the very spirit of the Golden Rule (to treat others as you could want them to treat us). However, Christian love knows no limit and is prepared to go not one mile but two. To ...
The inescapability of ethics and the impossibility of
... grounds that it asserts that reality either (a) is itself nothing more than a construction, or (b) can only be accessed indirectly through actively invented constructions. She sees both grounds as antirealist. The first ground («reality is just a construction») is antirealist because seeing reality ...
... grounds that it asserts that reality either (a) is itself nothing more than a construction, or (b) can only be accessed indirectly through actively invented constructions. She sees both grounds as antirealist. The first ground («reality is just a construction») is antirealist because seeing reality ...
When Soldiers Aren`t Heroes: An Essay
... If my argument is clear, we will be able to see yet another incoherence that is a part of our popular discourse. It is common to hear persons say that soldiers are “serving their country,” and quite often, almost routinely, military personnel say this of themselves. Yet, this can be straightforwardl ...
... If my argument is clear, we will be able to see yet another incoherence that is a part of our popular discourse. It is common to hear persons say that soldiers are “serving their country,” and quite often, almost routinely, military personnel say this of themselves. Yet, this can be straightforwardl ...
Moral realism - A Level Philosophy
... Earth millions of years ago would be true whether anyone had found out about it or not. But it is more difficult to believe that values ‘exist’ quite independently of us and our talk about values. This contrast is unfair. There are lots of facts – for example, facts about being in love, or facts ab ...
... Earth millions of years ago would be true whether anyone had found out about it or not. But it is more difficult to believe that values ‘exist’ quite independently of us and our talk about values. This contrast is unfair. There are lots of facts – for example, facts about being in love, or facts ab ...
Moral Inquiry - Blackwell Publishing
... them to the demands of social harmony or to the patterns of an underlying natural order. Such reflections may be called “moral philosophy.” By identifying principles on which practices rest, these reflections systematize prevailing expectations, and they also provide a basis for criticizing and revi ...
... them to the demands of social harmony or to the patterns of an underlying natural order. Such reflections may be called “moral philosophy.” By identifying principles on which practices rest, these reflections systematize prevailing expectations, and they also provide a basis for criticizing and revi ...
Towards a Code of Cyberethics
... but ethical content. Nevertheless, codes of conduct (such as a proposed Code of Cyberethics for eThekwini Municipality) can be extremely useful. By explicitly communicating corporate purposes regarding controversial matters (such as copying someone else's software for personal use) and by clarifyin ...
... but ethical content. Nevertheless, codes of conduct (such as a proposed Code of Cyberethics for eThekwini Municipality) can be extremely useful. By explicitly communicating corporate purposes regarding controversial matters (such as copying someone else's software for personal use) and by clarifyin ...
187 “Goodness itself must change” – Anthroponomy in an age of
... What is termed herein the form of our power is, simply, the way our life is structured so as to have the effect that it does. This form includes political organization, formal and informal economies, apparatuses of knowledge acquisition and dissemination, even inherited psychology underlying identif ...
... What is termed herein the form of our power is, simply, the way our life is structured so as to have the effect that it does. This form includes political organization, formal and informal economies, apparatuses of knowledge acquisition and dissemination, even inherited psychology underlying identif ...
Ethical Gradualism
... 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 discussions, there are public debates focusing on cases like abortion and euthanasia, and there are various initiatives ...
... 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 discussions, there are public debates focusing on cases like abortion and euthanasia, and there are various initiatives ...
Ethical Relativism 2 Kinds of Relativism: ethical relativism and social
... There are limits to this procedure: there will still be some arbitrariness, because more than one way can be equally good at achieving our goals, or anyway good enough. Morality will have to fulfill its functions under different circumstances (times, places, material resources, technological advance ...
... There are limits to this procedure: there will still be some arbitrariness, because more than one way can be equally good at achieving our goals, or anyway good enough. Morality will have to fulfill its functions under different circumstances (times, places, material resources, technological advance ...
Introduction to Ethics Lecture 10 Ayer and Emotivism
... – “All synthetic propositions are empirical hypothesis.” – A claim has meaning (I.e. propositional content) and can only be true or false if it is either analytic or verifiable by sense experience (or at least if it is possible that it is verifiable by sense experience). – Ayer thought that since et ...
... – “All synthetic propositions are empirical hypothesis.” – A claim has meaning (I.e. propositional content) and can only be true or false if it is either analytic or verifiable by sense experience (or at least if it is possible that it is verifiable by sense experience). – Ayer thought that since et ...
Arthur Schafer
Professor Arthur Schafer is a Canadian ethicist specializing in bioethics, philosophy of law, social philosophy and political philosophy. He is Director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics, at the University of Manitoba.He is also a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy and an Ethics Consultant for the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg. For ten years he was Head of the Section of Bio-Medical Ethics in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Manitoba. He has also served as Visiting Scholar Green College, Oxford.Professor Schafer has received a number of awards and honours. He is a Canadian Commonwealth Scholar, Honorary Woodrow Wilson Scholar, a Canada Council Fellow. At the University of Manitoba he has received the Stanton Teaching Excellence Award, the Campbell Award for University Outreach, and the University Teaching Service Award for Teaching Excellence.Arthur Schafer has published widely in the fields of moral, social, and political philosophy. He is author of The Buck Stops Here: Reflections on moral responsibility, democratic accountability and military values, and co-editor of Ethics and Animal Experimentation. His curriculum vitae lists more than 90 scholarly articles and book chapters, covering a wide range of topics, with a special focus on issues in professional and bio-medical ethics, business and environmental ethics. Professor Schafer is National Research Associate of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, which has published two of his Reports. He has made several hundred conference presentations in Canada and abroad, and has written dozens of newspaper articles for The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Winnipeg Free Press, The Medical Post, and The Sunday Times (London). Arthur Schafer has been a frequent guest on CBC radio and television, including many appearances on CBC radio’s Morningside, This Morning and The Current, As It Happens, Sunday Morning, and Cross Country Check Up; and CBC television’s The National, The Journal, The National Magazine, and Newsworld. He has also appeared frequently on The Discovery Network’s “@Discovery.ca”, discussing ethical and value aspects of medicine, science and technology; and on the CTV, WTN, Global and Baton television networks.