Human-nature-as-it
... Kant is closest to recognizing the need for teleology [Kant] does indeed look for a foundation of morality in the universalizable prescriptions of that reason which manifests itself both in arithmetic and in morality; and in spite of his strictures against founding morality on human nature, his ana ...
... Kant is closest to recognizing the need for teleology [Kant] does indeed look for a foundation of morality in the universalizable prescriptions of that reason which manifests itself both in arithmetic and in morality; and in spite of his strictures against founding morality on human nature, his ana ...
Redrawing the Dividing Lines Between Natural
... moral considerations, but to whether those concerns pertain to legal philosophy. The standard response to this complaint is that the questioner wants to pursue political or moral philosophy, not general jurisprudence. Priel does not think he has shown up at the wrong building on campus. He argues fo ...
... moral considerations, but to whether those concerns pertain to legal philosophy. The standard response to this complaint is that the questioner wants to pursue political or moral philosophy, not general jurisprudence. Priel does not think he has shown up at the wrong building on campus. He argues fo ...
National Plans of Action for the Promotion and Protection of... Norway
... also become more influential and visible in traditional foreign policy fields such as security and trade policy. A more open and frank approach is being taken in human rights efforts in international fora. At the same time we have a greater range of positive measures at our disposal through more dir ...
... also become more influential and visible in traditional foreign policy fields such as security and trade policy. A more open and frank approach is being taken in human rights efforts in international fora. At the same time we have a greater range of positive measures at our disposal through more dir ...
RTF File
... shown us that the realization of a league of all the States of the world, about which all the despots have dreamt, is impossible. Hence these who speak of the State, necessarily think and speak of a world divided into different States, who are internally oppressors and outwardly despoilers, i.e., en ...
... shown us that the realization of a league of all the States of the world, about which all the despots have dreamt, is impossible. Hence these who speak of the State, necessarily think and speak of a world divided into different States, who are internally oppressors and outwardly despoilers, i.e., en ...
What moral theory for human rights
... simply because they are human. If we closely examine the meaning of these theories, however, we meet with some difficulties. The most important one is about the link between ‘X is good for human beings’ and ‘there is a human right to X’. Needs theorists seem to fail to justify the needs-rights link: ...
... simply because they are human. If we closely examine the meaning of these theories, however, we meet with some difficulties. The most important one is about the link between ‘X is good for human beings’ and ‘there is a human right to X’. Needs theorists seem to fail to justify the needs-rights link: ...
Makeda Easter Professor Pinkard Political and Social Thought
... nature, there is no way any action can be just or unjust. His premises of desires, conflict, and equality justify all of Hobbes’s conclusions about rights to property in the state of nature. ...
... nature, there is no way any action can be just or unjust. His premises of desires, conflict, and equality justify all of Hobbes’s conclusions about rights to property in the state of nature. ...
Workshop on the impact of unilateral coercive measures on the
... over a year after I relinquished the post I had for over 7 years in Geneva. I once had a dream that one day in the new forum of the HRC that I contributed in setting up, the positions of Member states would become aligned on the basis of universal values rather than on the basis of group political i ...
... over a year after I relinquished the post I had for over 7 years in Geneva. I once had a dream that one day in the new forum of the HRC that I contributed in setting up, the positions of Member states would become aligned on the basis of universal values rather than on the basis of group political i ...
The Cult of the Market: Economic Fundamentalism and its Discontents
... tradition—are conceived of as more radically fundamental, underlying forces, which are seen as fixed natural laws. As such, it incorporates a conception of natural laws as mathematical, eternal and absolute—a reflection of some perfect mathematical form—derived from ancient Greek philosophers Pythag ...
... tradition—are conceived of as more radically fundamental, underlying forces, which are seen as fixed natural laws. As such, it incorporates a conception of natural laws as mathematical, eternal and absolute—a reflection of some perfect mathematical form—derived from ancient Greek philosophers Pythag ...
Rousseau`s general will, civil rights, and property
... particular interests, civil rights, the exercise of the general will and justice. For him, the condition of civil liberty rests on the ability of the entire body of the constitution to bear over and above individual interests. The sovereignty of the general will, seen as the exercise of justice, att ...
... particular interests, civil rights, the exercise of the general will and justice. For him, the condition of civil liberty rests on the ability of the entire body of the constitution to bear over and above individual interests. The sovereignty of the general will, seen as the exercise of justice, att ...
law extension committee - The University of Sydney
... notion, that we have a general obligation to obey all laws, including those laws that we believe are morally unjustified. Most no doubt believe we should obey the law prohibiting murder. This however could easily be explicable on the basis that most of us believe killing is wrong. By contrast, some ...
... notion, that we have a general obligation to obey all laws, including those laws that we believe are morally unjustified. Most no doubt believe we should obey the law prohibiting murder. This however could easily be explicable on the basis that most of us believe killing is wrong. By contrast, some ...
Ethical problems in natural sciences — challenges of the 21st century
... Stanislaw Lem, a very well known Polish science-fiction novelist and journalist, at the end of the last century wrote in one of his assays that XX century was the period of totalitarisms and the XXI century will be the time of terrorisms. Biochemistry in the XX century became a dominant discipline a ...
... Stanislaw Lem, a very well known Polish science-fiction novelist and journalist, at the end of the last century wrote in one of his assays that XX century was the period of totalitarisms and the XXI century will be the time of terrorisms. Biochemistry in the XX century became a dominant discipline a ...
Rawls* Theory of Justice - The University of Sydney
... the boundary conditions for free exchange of legitimate holdings. A state should protect our right not to be forced to do things, it ought to protect our liberty –conceived in a tight way, freedom from coercion by others, including the state. A state that exceeds this boundary will end up forcing pe ...
... the boundary conditions for free exchange of legitimate holdings. A state should protect our right not to be forced to do things, it ought to protect our liberty –conceived in a tight way, freedom from coercion by others, including the state. A state that exceeds this boundary will end up forcing pe ...
Right
... • Morality—Concerns beliefs about right and wrong actions and good and bad persons or character. • Philosophy—The systematic exploration of life’s big questions using critical thinking and logical argument. ...
... • Morality—Concerns beliefs about right and wrong actions and good and bad persons or character. • Philosophy—The systematic exploration of life’s big questions using critical thinking and logical argument. ...
On Human Rights and Freedom - UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and
... problematic. Meanwhile, I shall argue why the Buddhist ethics of compassion could be better served as a supplement to the concept of human rights. II. Human Dignity and Human Rights Human dignity and human rights are usually mentioned side by side. The concept of human dignity seems less controversi ...
... problematic. Meanwhile, I shall argue why the Buddhist ethics of compassion could be better served as a supplement to the concept of human rights. II. Human Dignity and Human Rights Human dignity and human rights are usually mentioned side by side. The concept of human dignity seems less controversi ...
lecture5 revised
... Alasdair MacIntyre, “The Virtues, the Unity of a Human Life, and the Concept of a Tradition,” from After Virtue (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2nd ed., 1984) Jurgen Habermas, “Discourse Ethics: Notes on a Prgram of ...
... Alasdair MacIntyre, “The Virtues, the Unity of a Human Life, and the Concept of a Tradition,” from After Virtue (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2nd ed., 1984) Jurgen Habermas, “Discourse Ethics: Notes on a Prgram of ...
2. the greatest happiness principle i utilitarianism
... writes, "it is with reasons drawn, without his being aware of it, from that very principle itself." All moral quarrels, properly understood, are disagreements about how to apply the utilitarian principle of maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain, not about the principle itself. "Is it possible for ...
... writes, "it is with reasons drawn, without his being aware of it, from that very principle itself." All moral quarrels, properly understood, are disagreements about how to apply the utilitarian principle of maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain, not about the principle itself. "Is it possible for ...
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 ...
Intro to Moral Theories
... Different philosophers answer these questions differently. Some, like Locke, approach them from the standpoint of an optimistic assessment of human nature, while others, like Hobbes, are more pessimistic. Some philosophers, like Rousseau and Rawls, affirm the egalitarian principle that all people ar ...
... Different philosophers answer these questions differently. Some, like Locke, approach them from the standpoint of an optimistic assessment of human nature, while others, like Hobbes, are more pessimistic. Some philosophers, like Rousseau and Rawls, affirm the egalitarian principle that all people ar ...
Ethics and euthanasia: natural law philosophy and latent utilitarianism
... purpose of achieving apparent conformity with an arbitrary a priori principle, such an approach encourages an instrumental view of a human being rather than a genuine respect for his or her consciousness. It is difficult to see the logic of this position.25 Keown and Gormally have elevated universal ...
... purpose of achieving apparent conformity with an arbitrary a priori principle, such an approach encourages an instrumental view of a human being rather than a genuine respect for his or her consciousness. It is difficult to see the logic of this position.25 Keown and Gormally have elevated universal ...
The Tension
... each other, the world of experience. Relationship is a key, for individual does not exist alone as a private, independent entity. The individual exists in relationship with others Not a question of DOING the right thing, but BEING A GOOD PERSON. ...
... each other, the world of experience. Relationship is a key, for individual does not exist alone as a private, independent entity. The individual exists in relationship with others Not a question of DOING the right thing, but BEING A GOOD PERSON. ...
State
... knowledge gained from sensory perception to build a useful and usable set of general truths. Sense and logic are both necessary, the first to provide the mind the raw material of knowledge and the second to provide the critical process giving knowledge a useful meaning. John Locke central argument: ...
... knowledge gained from sensory perception to build a useful and usable set of general truths. Sense and logic are both necessary, the first to provide the mind the raw material of knowledge and the second to provide the critical process giving knowledge a useful meaning. John Locke central argument: ...
Hard Determinism Hard determinism is the belief that we are entirely
... as it is not us, but our upbringing, genetics, and other external forces that decide for us in situations. Clarence Darrow, a lawyer in a murder trial in Ohio, defended two murderers with the argument that their parents, their affluent lifestyle, their education and their interests led them to murde ...
... as it is not us, but our upbringing, genetics, and other external forces that decide for us in situations. Clarence Darrow, a lawyer in a murder trial in Ohio, defended two murderers with the argument that their parents, their affluent lifestyle, their education and their interests led them to murde ...
1 Focus Area 16: Peaceful and iclusive societies, rule of law and
... outmost importance in the context of sustainable development as we only can develop ourselves throughout public institutions that we create and entrust with shaping our lives. It is why this target of effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels has a cross-regional support and ...
... outmost importance in the context of sustainable development as we only can develop ourselves throughout public institutions that we create and entrust with shaping our lives. It is why this target of effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels has a cross-regional support and ...
The Difficulty with Conflicting Values: Societally Accepted vs
... or consensually accepted standards of behavior • Because this approach is based on consensus, our notion of what is right or wrong may vary over time and among different societies. ...
... or consensually accepted standards of behavior • Because this approach is based on consensus, our notion of what is right or wrong may vary over time and among different societies. ...
Waking Life
... values: truth, loyalty, justice, freedom. Here the individual becomes more valuable in its own right. Healy seems to be somewhat optimistic about futuristic human-robot life forms. Is there some grounds for his optimism? ...
... values: truth, loyalty, justice, freedom. Here the individual becomes more valuable in its own right. Healy seems to be somewhat optimistic about futuristic human-robot life forms. Is there some grounds for his optimism? ...