Does Moral Theory Corrupt Youth?
... are allowed to put pressure on our intuitive beliefs. We could illustrate this phenomenon with various examples, of which I give three. The first is both simple and familiar: even critics of act-utilitarianism often concede that its elegance and scope are attractive, that they are reasons to accept ...
... are allowed to put pressure on our intuitive beliefs. We could illustrate this phenomenon with various examples, of which I give three. The first is both simple and familiar: even critics of act-utilitarianism often concede that its elegance and scope are attractive, that they are reasons to accept ...
Review Article Reasons Consequentialism Benjamin Sachs Journal of Moral Philosophy 10 (2013) 671–682
... outcome. If it is true that for something to be good is for there to be reasons for one to desire or prefer it, then in fact act-consequentialism instructs us act in accordance with our reasons for preference or desire. And this is just what Portmore’s Act-Consequentialism says. By employing this re ...
... outcome. If it is true that for something to be good is for there to be reasons for one to desire or prefer it, then in fact act-consequentialism instructs us act in accordance with our reasons for preference or desire. And this is just what Portmore’s Act-Consequentialism says. By employing this re ...
Dieter Birnbacher - Kultura i Wartości
... members of some more narrowly defined group. But moral principles can also be highly specific, ascribing rights and duties to the bearers of highly specialized social roles. In most moralities, the moral principles applied to physicians, priests, teachers or civil servants significantly from the mor ...
... members of some more narrowly defined group. But moral principles can also be highly specific, ascribing rights and duties to the bearers of highly specialized social roles. In most moralities, the moral principles applied to physicians, priests, teachers or civil servants significantly from the mor ...
Socrates` Question
... questions of life? It is hard to see how this could be so, unless, as Socrates believed, the answer were one that the reader would recognize as one he might have given himself. But how could this be? And how would this be related to the existence of the subject? For Socrates, there was no such subje ...
... questions of life? It is hard to see how this could be so, unless, as Socrates believed, the answer were one that the reader would recognize as one he might have given himself. But how could this be? And how would this be related to the existence of the subject? For Socrates, there was no such subje ...
Irwin`s Routledge Encyclopedia article on Aristotle
... contain incomplete sentences and compressed allusions, suggesting notes that a lecturer might expand (for example, Metaphysics VII 13). We cannot tell how many of his treatises Aristotle regarded as ‘finished’ (see §11 on the Metaphysics and §21 on the Ethics). It may be wrong, therefore, to ask abo ...
... contain incomplete sentences and compressed allusions, suggesting notes that a lecturer might expand (for example, Metaphysics VII 13). We cannot tell how many of his treatises Aristotle regarded as ‘finished’ (see §11 on the Metaphysics and §21 on the Ethics). It may be wrong, therefore, to ask abo ...
(Routledge Contemporary Readings in Philosophy)
... viewed as the source of all basic laws), and as the only plausible source of objectively binding duties. As to how we can know God’s will, supernaturalists have suggested sources like the Bible, the church, prayer, and reason. Supernaturalism, despite being initially plausible (at least to religious ...
... viewed as the source of all basic laws), and as the only plausible source of objectively binding duties. As to how we can know God’s will, supernaturalists have suggested sources like the Bible, the church, prayer, and reason. Supernaturalism, despite being initially plausible (at least to religious ...
aristotle`s poetics - U
... The two questions which arise out of this clear insistence on tragedy's concern with the movement of human action between the poles of success and failure are: first, why does Aristotle make so much of this movement, and, secondly, what is the relation between eutuchia, good fortune, and eudaimonia, ...
... The two questions which arise out of this clear insistence on tragedy's concern with the movement of human action between the poles of success and failure are: first, why does Aristotle make so much of this movement, and, secondly, what is the relation between eutuchia, good fortune, and eudaimonia, ...
Ethical Absolutism and Relativism
... “It’s Good Business” (Cont.) • Behaving ethical can be more costly in the short term • Example: adding safety equipment not required by law • Bears higher cost to do what the firm believes is right ...
... “It’s Good Business” (Cont.) • Behaving ethical can be more costly in the short term • Example: adding safety equipment not required by law • Bears higher cost to do what the firm believes is right ...
Introduction - Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
... everything, in the ordinary or non-technical use of the term “thing”—are what they are experienced as being. Hence, if one wishes to describe anything truly, his task is to tell what it is experienced as being’.8 Dewey goes on to use the example of describing a horse. The descriptions of a horse-tr ...
... everything, in the ordinary or non-technical use of the term “thing”—are what they are experienced as being. Hence, if one wishes to describe anything truly, his task is to tell what it is experienced as being’.8 Dewey goes on to use the example of describing a horse. The descriptions of a horse-tr ...
Moral Health, Moral Prosperity and Universalization in Kant`s Ethics
... this case, I claimed, is best understood as a kind of insincerity or lack of conscientiousness in reflecting on one’s actions and character. Kant thinks of moral deliberation as a kind of conversation with oneself in which a conception of our actions or character is submitted to our conscience for s ...
... this case, I claimed, is best understood as a kind of insincerity or lack of conscientiousness in reflecting on one’s actions and character. Kant thinks of moral deliberation as a kind of conversation with oneself in which a conception of our actions or character is submitted to our conscience for s ...
Moral Theory and Experience
... Does not the above "postulate" assume the very naive philosophical view that there are "givens" independent of theories that we can appeal to as a "neutral court of appeal"? Alasdair McIntyre has recently claimed "we need to avoid the error of supposing that there are facts of the moral life complet ...
... Does not the above "postulate" assume the very naive philosophical view that there are "givens" independent of theories that we can appeal to as a "neutral court of appeal"? Alasdair McIntyre has recently claimed "we need to avoid the error of supposing that there are facts of the moral life complet ...
The evolutionary debunking of morality
... nativism does not imply that the capacity to make moral judgments will develop irrespective of environmental conditions, nor that this capacity will be universally present, nor that it is essential for being human, nor that there is a “gene for moral judgment.” Nor should moral nativism be confused ...
... nativism does not imply that the capacity to make moral judgments will develop irrespective of environmental conditions, nor that this capacity will be universally present, nor that it is essential for being human, nor that there is a “gene for moral judgment.” Nor should moral nativism be confused ...
Ethical Encounter - sikkim university library
... understood as a linguistic projection of a ‘subjective’ sensation of taste.7 Or: ‘objectivism’ – the view that value is somehow ‘in the world’ rather than merely ‘in us’ – can be preserved by holding that ‘brutal’ and ‘callous’ register so-called ‘evaluative properties’ of (in this case) the boys’ d ...
... understood as a linguistic projection of a ‘subjective’ sensation of taste.7 Or: ‘objectivism’ – the view that value is somehow ‘in the world’ rather than merely ‘in us’ – can be preserved by holding that ‘brutal’ and ‘callous’ register so-called ‘evaluative properties’ of (in this case) the boys’ d ...
The Role of Happiness in Kant`s Ethics - Aporia
... vice and is aware of having done his often bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could well be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of soul in which virtue is its own reward.”47 This happiness is not, as the eudaimonist claims, the motive for acting virtuously.48 If one only do ...
... vice and is aware of having done his often bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could well be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of soul in which virtue is its own reward.”47 This happiness is not, as the eudaimonist claims, the motive for acting virtuously.48 If one only do ...
Applied Moral Philosophy
... genuine assertions but are rather more like expressions of attitudes or maybe commands. But according to moral realism, moral claims are genuine assertions, which admit of being true or false, and some moral claims are true. (That is to say, moral claims are not one and all false in virtue of embody ...
... genuine assertions but are rather more like expressions of attitudes or maybe commands. But according to moral realism, moral claims are genuine assertions, which admit of being true or false, and some moral claims are true. (That is to say, moral claims are not one and all false in virtue of embody ...
Metaethical Principles, Meta-Prescriptions, and Moral Theories
... if we construe this method of refutation in this way, there are several problems. First, it is difficult to explain how metaethical principles, which are supposedly normatively neutral, can be employed to refute substantive moral theories. Second, if these principles are advanced as stating defining ...
... if we construe this method of refutation in this way, there are several problems. First, it is difficult to explain how metaethical principles, which are supposedly normatively neutral, can be employed to refute substantive moral theories. Second, if these principles are advanced as stating defining ...
Ethical Dimensions in Responsible Professionalism
... Hunter (1991) identified two competing moral visions (orthodox and progressive) that relate to the two ethical systems (deontological and teleological) discussed. The orthodox view is a moral reasoning perspective that defines moral authority in terms of an external transcendent force; while the pro ...
... Hunter (1991) identified two competing moral visions (orthodox and progressive) that relate to the two ethical systems (deontological and teleological) discussed. The orthodox view is a moral reasoning perspective that defines moral authority in terms of an external transcendent force; while the pro ...
LaNdscaPe ethIcs a moral commitment to responsible regional
... consequences of a purely instrumental approach and the privileged position of human beings in the world, only by attributing to nature an inherent objective could a real change be brought about in our relationship with it. In this respect, the environmental ethics project which has been underway for ...
... consequences of a purely instrumental approach and the privileged position of human beings in the world, only by attributing to nature an inherent objective could a real change be brought about in our relationship with it. In this respect, the environmental ethics project which has been underway for ...
Gatta_Santina_2015_research paper
... seeking the origin of morality and ethics. To talk about ethics in Aristotle’s time as today is to refer back to its roots and foundation which are Judaic in concept (Fisher 49). This fact is omitted in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. The ancient Greeks did not look to their gods to make them moral ...
... seeking the origin of morality and ethics. To talk about ethics in Aristotle’s time as today is to refer back to its roots and foundation which are Judaic in concept (Fisher 49). This fact is omitted in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. The ancient Greeks did not look to their gods to make them moral ...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
... painting. Leave aside any doubts you might have about whether paintings can be good in a world without viewers, and accept for the sake of argument that this painting has aesthetic value in that world. It seems intuitively plausible to claim that the value of this world is constituted solely by the ...
... painting. Leave aside any doubts you might have about whether paintings can be good in a world without viewers, and accept for the sake of argument that this painting has aesthetic value in that world. It seems intuitively plausible to claim that the value of this world is constituted solely by the ...
Two Dogmas of Moral Theory? Comments on Lisa Tessman`s Moral
... for someone who refuses my care, I cannot fulfill my responsibility to care—and the failure is due not to my irresponsibility, but to the sheer moral bad luck of having the responsibility to care for someone who makes it impossible for me to fulfill my moral obligation. I take this to be the point i ...
... for someone who refuses my care, I cannot fulfill my responsibility to care—and the failure is due not to my irresponsibility, but to the sheer moral bad luck of having the responsibility to care for someone who makes it impossible for me to fulfill my moral obligation. I take this to be the point i ...
The Teaching of Happiness in Mainland China: in Light of Aristotle
... cultivation of voluntary virtue or habituation of virtuous actions? And 3) what is the relation between happiness and achievement and/or sacrifice of self-interest? Based on both Aristotle’s and Marx’s views on these questions, the author argues that a comprehensive rather than a “correct” understan ...
... cultivation of voluntary virtue or habituation of virtuous actions? And 3) what is the relation between happiness and achievement and/or sacrifice of self-interest? Based on both Aristotle’s and Marx’s views on these questions, the author argues that a comprehensive rather than a “correct” understan ...
"Nihilism" encyclopedia entry - Victoria University of Wellington
... thinks that in making moral judgments we do not even try to state facts (because, for example, these judgments are really veiled commands or expressions of desire). (In characterizing noncognitivism in this way, I am sidelining various linguistic permissions that may be earned via the quasi-realist ...
... thinks that in making moral judgments we do not even try to state facts (because, for example, these judgments are really veiled commands or expressions of desire). (In characterizing noncognitivism in this way, I am sidelining various linguistic permissions that may be earned via the quasi-realist ...
PDF version - The Menlo Roundtable
... the death penalty is more expensive. People do not always change their stance on the death penalty after hearing this fact, even if that was their only reason for supporting the death penalty in the first place. This presents a problem, then: whether we need to respect a moral opinion based in part ...
... the death penalty is more expensive. People do not always change their stance on the death penalty after hearing this fact, even if that was their only reason for supporting the death penalty in the first place. This presents a problem, then: whether we need to respect a moral opinion based in part ...