(very) Concise Guide to Eight Moral Theories
... Divine Command: Most often championed within cultures that have a strong monotheistic tradition, there are a couple of versions of Divine Command. There are those who would claim that all genuine morality is whatever God commands – something is right because God commands it. Others would maintain th ...
... Divine Command: Most often championed within cultures that have a strong monotheistic tradition, there are a couple of versions of Divine Command. There are those who would claim that all genuine morality is whatever God commands – something is right because God commands it. Others would maintain th ...
Ethical Theory Review Sheet
... types of criticisms: it is impossible to resolve conflicts between duties without recourse to consequences; many Kantian duties (e.g., beneficence) seem to rely on an appeal to consequences; an ethics which severs duty from the human quest for well-being misses the whole point of ethics. Rights base ...
... types of criticisms: it is impossible to resolve conflicts between duties without recourse to consequences; many Kantian duties (e.g., beneficence) seem to rely on an appeal to consequences; an ethics which severs duty from the human quest for well-being misses the whole point of ethics. Rights base ...
Ethics Glossary
... Rights. Rights are entitlements to do something without interference from other people (negative rights) or entitlements that obligate others to do something positive to assist you (positive rights). Some rights (natural rights, human rights) belong to everyone by nature or simply by virtue of being ...
... Rights. Rights are entitlements to do something without interference from other people (negative rights) or entitlements that obligate others to do something positive to assist you (positive rights). Some rights (natural rights, human rights) belong to everyone by nature or simply by virtue of being ...
Pwrpt - People Server at UNCW
... If we are able to prevent great harm* without comparable cost, we have a moral duty to do it. 2. We in the developed world can prevent great suffering in poor countries without comparable cost. 3. Therefore we have a duty to do it. *Whether someone is nearby or distant makes no difference in a globa ...
... If we are able to prevent great harm* without comparable cost, we have a moral duty to do it. 2. We in the developed world can prevent great suffering in poor countries without comparable cost. 3. Therefore we have a duty to do it. *Whether someone is nearby or distant makes no difference in a globa ...
History of Legal Thought
... unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distort the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregato ...
... unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distort the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregato ...
Right
... Construed merely negatively, rights seem to be limited, but when we consider the range of positive rights, their number expands considerably. ...
... Construed merely negatively, rights seem to be limited, but when we consider the range of positive rights, their number expands considerably. ...
Metaphysical Economics: The Deep Sources of our
... Classical liberals and libertarians reject such variety. For them, true property can take only one form: Locke’s model mixing of one’s labor with unclaimed matter. As a metaphysician, I object to the naive realism about artifacts that such a model requires. Artifacts (the products of human art) have ...
... Classical liberals and libertarians reject such variety. For them, true property can take only one form: Locke’s model mixing of one’s labor with unclaimed matter. As a metaphysician, I object to the naive realism about artifacts that such a model requires. Artifacts (the products of human art) have ...
Social Science and Natural Science, Ludwig von Mises
... Economics deals with human action, not with objects (as physics does) such as commodities, economic quantities or prices. Therefore economists do not consider their subject matter from without, but from within, through our own understanding of what it is to be human and to act. What makes natural sc ...
... Economics deals with human action, not with objects (as physics does) such as commodities, economic quantities or prices. Therefore economists do not consider their subject matter from without, but from within, through our own understanding of what it is to be human and to act. What makes natural sc ...
THEORIES ABOUT RIGHT ACTION (ETHICAL THEORIES)
... The justice or fairness approach to ethics has its roots in the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, who said that “equals should be treated equally and unequals unequally.” The basic moral question in this approach is: How fair is an action? Does it treat everyone in the same way, ...
... The justice or fairness approach to ethics has its roots in the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, who said that “equals should be treated equally and unequals unequally.” The basic moral question in this approach is: How fair is an action? Does it treat everyone in the same way, ...
Glosario Etica
... Rights are entitlements to do something without interference from other people (negative rights) or entitlements that obligate others to do something positive to assist you (positive rights). Some rights (natural rights, human rights) belong to everyone by nature or simply by virtue of being human; ...
... Rights are entitlements to do something without interference from other people (negative rights) or entitlements that obligate others to do something positive to assist you (positive rights). Some rights (natural rights, human rights) belong to everyone by nature or simply by virtue of being human; ...
Ethical Theories
... Act only according to that maxim that you could at the same time will to become a universal law Kant formulated DUTY ethics – saying how persons have the DUTY to act Another deontological theory: Theory of rights (of persons). E.g. right to life, right of choice. John Locke: natural rights – life, l ...
... Act only according to that maxim that you could at the same time will to become a universal law Kant formulated DUTY ethics – saying how persons have the DUTY to act Another deontological theory: Theory of rights (of persons). E.g. right to life, right of choice. John Locke: natural rights – life, l ...
Ensuring Human Rights of All Migrants, Social Inclusion and Non
... Ensuring Human Rights of All Migrants, Social Inclusion and Non-Discrimination in the Global Compact In the New York Declaration, states reaffirmed the principles and purposes of the UN Charter and committed to “fully protect the human rights of all refugees and migrants, regardless of status” and “ ...
... Ensuring Human Rights of All Migrants, Social Inclusion and Non-Discrimination in the Global Compact In the New York Declaration, states reaffirmed the principles and purposes of the UN Charter and committed to “fully protect the human rights of all refugees and migrants, regardless of status” and “ ...
Philosophy 220
... What Type of Moral Theory? Church teachings are further complicated by the fact that in addition to the NL tradition, it also looks to “divine law” as a justifying basis for its theory of intrinsic value. This raises the specter of Divine Command theory, which we have already seen provides only d ...
... What Type of Moral Theory? Church teachings are further complicated by the fact that in addition to the NL tradition, it also looks to “divine law” as a justifying basis for its theory of intrinsic value. This raises the specter of Divine Command theory, which we have already seen provides only d ...
Ethics at a Glance - RHCHP Learning Technologies
... and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services is a comprehensive statement of ethics pertaining to a variety of ethical issues in health care. This example of an ethical position, well grounded in the framework of a particular faith tradition, has been very influential in the general re ...
... and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services is a comprehensive statement of ethics pertaining to a variety of ethical issues in health care. This example of an ethical position, well grounded in the framework of a particular faith tradition, has been very influential in the general re ...
Is there a Universal Ethic?
... derived using reason? Ontology: u exists if it fits the criteria for natural moral law. ...
... derived using reason? Ontology: u exists if it fits the criteria for natural moral law. ...
Right
... The ethical category of rights addresses situations when an individual’s well being is vulnerable to the activity of others (individuals or institutions). Rights serve to protect the vulnerabilities of individuals. ...
... The ethical category of rights addresses situations when an individual’s well being is vulnerable to the activity of others (individuals or institutions). Rights serve to protect the vulnerabilities of individuals. ...
Law and Society Notes 2014
... E.g. there is a principle that children should be looked after by their parents, therefore parents have some legal obligations to children Aristotle: lex injusta non est lex Thomas Aquinas : all human law is judged against natural law, and because well-made human law is the law od God, it must be ob ...
... E.g. there is a principle that children should be looked after by their parents, therefore parents have some legal obligations to children Aristotle: lex injusta non est lex Thomas Aquinas : all human law is judged against natural law, and because well-made human law is the law od God, it must be ob ...
Rights and respect for persons
... morally valuable and not as mere means to achieve some particular ...
... morally valuable and not as mere means to achieve some particular ...
Lsn_Baum_Feb13_PositLaw_CLN4UI
... That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; th ...
... That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; th ...
Moral Reasoning and Ethical Theories
... the most good for the most people, giving equal consideration to everyone affected – Rule-Utilitarianism is applying those rules that if generally adopted would produce the most good for the most people – Act-Utilitarianism is applying rules in order to produce the most good for the most people invo ...
... the most good for the most people, giving equal consideration to everyone affected – Rule-Utilitarianism is applying those rules that if generally adopted would produce the most good for the most people – Act-Utilitarianism is applying rules in order to produce the most good for the most people invo ...
Rights-Based Moral Theory and Pornography
... • The ethical category of rights addresses situations when an individual’s well being is vulnerable to the activity of others (individuals or institutions). • Rights serve to protect the vulnerabilities of individuals. o ...
... • The ethical category of rights addresses situations when an individual’s well being is vulnerable to the activity of others (individuals or institutions). • Rights serve to protect the vulnerabilities of individuals. o ...
Phil 122 – Anderson Supplementary Notes – Nozick`s
... other words, they have it because they are human beings, not because they belong to some privileged class or meet some other special qualification. (b) A natural right is not created or conferred by certain voluntary acts of persons the way promises and contracts are created. In effect, this is sayi ...
... other words, they have it because they are human beings, not because they belong to some privileged class or meet some other special qualification. (b) A natural right is not created or conferred by certain voluntary acts of persons the way promises and contracts are created. In effect, this is sayi ...
Law - IS MU
... In the seventeenth century, a civil society had grown up between the kinship and state relations of traditional society, a society whose rights Thomas Hobbes described as “the war of all against all”. All the rights pertaining in civil, or bourgeois society, are derived from what Hegel calls “abstra ...
... In the seventeenth century, a civil society had grown up between the kinship and state relations of traditional society, a society whose rights Thomas Hobbes described as “the war of all against all”. All the rights pertaining in civil, or bourgeois society, are derived from what Hegel calls “abstra ...