Moral Imagination and Adorno: Before and After Auschwitz
... Holocaust is ‘unimaginable’ but it wasn’t, it was imagined, and it took place. Discussing imagination in terms of understanding what happened, as well as tools for education post-genocide, seems an interesting and necessary direction for my project. ...
... Holocaust is ‘unimaginable’ but it wasn’t, it was imagined, and it took place. Discussing imagination in terms of understanding what happened, as well as tools for education post-genocide, seems an interesting and necessary direction for my project. ...
The Teaching of Happiness in Mainland China: in Light of Aristotle
... interpretations and principles of happiness, the Marxist view of happiness, are taught as irrefutable truth to students. Questioning such truths is not encouraged or even allowed by the Chinese government. As a result, these fundamental questions regarding happiness have not been fully discussed, or ...
... interpretations and principles of happiness, the Marxist view of happiness, are taught as irrefutable truth to students. Questioning such truths is not encouraged or even allowed by the Chinese government. As a result, these fundamental questions regarding happiness have not been fully discussed, or ...
WHAT WE CHOOSE: ETHICS FOR UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS A
... make and the actions we do or do not take can reflect our most deeply held values. Development, clarification, refinement, and expansion of our ethical thinking often occur in the midst of crisis or in response to an event or relationship that calls our world view into question. However, this progra ...
... make and the actions we do or do not take can reflect our most deeply held values. Development, clarification, refinement, and expansion of our ethical thinking often occur in the midst of crisis or in response to an event or relationship that calls our world view into question. However, this progra ...
two-column Word document - Unitarian Universalist Association
... make and the actions we do or do not take can reflect our most deeply held values. Development, clarification, refinement, and expansion of our ethical thinking often occur in the midst of crisis or in response to an event or relationship that calls our world view into question. However, this progra ...
... make and the actions we do or do not take can reflect our most deeply held values. Development, clarification, refinement, and expansion of our ethical thinking often occur in the midst of crisis or in response to an event or relationship that calls our world view into question. However, this progra ...
Beyond Evaluation Standards?
... 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 principles (for instance, honesty, beneficence, trust, justice, and so forth). In all, ther ...
... 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 principles (for instance, honesty, beneficence, trust, justice, and so forth). In all, ther ...
Outline of Virtue Ethics encyclopedia article
... much more on emotional connection with people. Care ethicists soon realized that this distinction in ethical approaches doesn’t correlate all that well with gender differences, but they argued that a focus on moral connection rather than separateness/autonomy can work as a much-needed corrective or ...
... much more on emotional connection with people. Care ethicists soon realized that this distinction in ethical approaches doesn’t correlate all that well with gender differences, but they argued that a focus on moral connection rather than separateness/autonomy can work as a much-needed corrective or ...
Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions
... What if my moral intuitions tell me different? Actually, another kind of answer you might give, viz., a reliabilist or consequentialist type answer, e.g., Punishing people for accidentally and non negligently causing harm does not reliably increase the amount of good in the world. But of course th ...
... What if my moral intuitions tell me different? Actually, another kind of answer you might give, viz., a reliabilist or consequentialist type answer, e.g., Punishing people for accidentally and non negligently causing harm does not reliably increase the amount of good in the world. But of course th ...
The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth about Morality
... cognitive science, and evolutionary theory to explain why moral realism appears to be true even though it is not. I then argue, based on the picture of moral psychology developed herein, that realist moral language and thought promotes misunderstanding and exacerbates conflict. I consider a number o ...
... cognitive science, and evolutionary theory to explain why moral realism appears to be true even though it is not. I then argue, based on the picture of moral psychology developed herein, that realist moral language and thought promotes misunderstanding and exacerbates conflict. I consider a number o ...
Don`t Let it Happen Again: A Kantian Account of
... We may at first be tempted to think that Kant thinks of forgiveness as a duty of virtue (as opposed to a duty of right) because it cannot be coerced. Forgiveness doesn’t appear to be the kind of thing that can be wrung from us with the threat of punishment or hope of reward. But, if what I have arg ...
... We may at first be tempted to think that Kant thinks of forgiveness as a duty of virtue (as opposed to a duty of right) because it cannot be coerced. Forgiveness doesn’t appear to be the kind of thing that can be wrung from us with the threat of punishment or hope of reward. But, if what I have arg ...
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... Values are indicative of a sense of refinement and well being. The term value derives its origin from the self-reflective nature of human reason. It is humans alone who can transcend the animal instincts and have the knowledge of right and wrong, good and evil, ends and means etc.Morality or moral c ...
... Values are indicative of a sense of refinement and well being. The term value derives its origin from the self-reflective nature of human reason. It is humans alone who can transcend the animal instincts and have the knowledge of right and wrong, good and evil, ends and means etc.Morality or moral c ...
Why Enforcing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is Morally Questionable Introduction Abstract
... bridging of the gap between business and the rest of life. This is necessary in order to ensure compliance of business organisations to acceptable standards of moral conduct as mandated by a given society. Aristotle notes, and rightly so, that one has to think of oneself as a member of the larger co ...
... bridging of the gap between business and the rest of life. This is necessary in order to ensure compliance of business organisations to acceptable standards of moral conduct as mandated by a given society. Aristotle notes, and rightly so, that one has to think of oneself as a member of the larger co ...
Engineering Ethics: An Introduction
... • This may be referred to as “aspirational ethics” because it encourages aspirations or ideals in professionals to promote the welfare of the public. ...
... • This may be referred to as “aspirational ethics” because it encourages aspirations or ideals in professionals to promote the welfare of the public. ...
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... in the happiness of the individual and the interest of the society will perfectly coincide. The disinterested social feelings have been developed by the successive experience of ages, as the necessary condition of the growth of social organisms and have been registered in the structure of the physic ...
... in the happiness of the individual and the interest of the society will perfectly coincide. The disinterested social feelings have been developed by the successive experience of ages, as the necessary condition of the growth of social organisms and have been registered in the structure of the physic ...
Objective Morality_final
... blame must, of course, be mediated by a more specific theory of moral character and the appropriateness of blame, which I shall not offer here. Furthermore, I do not want to state the connection between these concepts too strongly. It is likely that any connection between virtuous decisionmaking, pr ...
... blame must, of course, be mediated by a more specific theory of moral character and the appropriateness of blame, which I shall not offer here. Furthermore, I do not want to state the connection between these concepts too strongly. It is likely that any connection between virtuous decisionmaking, pr ...
Frankena, Chapter 4
... Hume When we praise any actions, we regard only the motives that produce them. The external performance has no merit..all virtuous actions derive their true merit only from virtuous motives. In other words, what is important is judgments about agents and their motives o ...
... Hume When we praise any actions, we regard only the motives that produce them. The external performance has no merit..all virtuous actions derive their true merit only from virtuous motives. In other words, what is important is judgments about agents and their motives o ...
Chapter 4 The Moral Conscience
... i) When he is in error, his personal freedom to choose must be acknowledged. ii) It is through his conscience that man sees and recognizes the demands of the divine law. He is bound to follow this conscience faithfully in all his activity so that he may come to God, who is his last end. Therefore he ...
... i) When he is in error, his personal freedom to choose must be acknowledged. ii) It is through his conscience that man sees and recognizes the demands of the divine law. He is bound to follow this conscience faithfully in all his activity so that he may come to God, who is his last end. Therefore he ...
Kant`s Puzzling Ethics of Maxims
... prudence, and immediate inclination. This has very important consequences. For instance, fiddling about with the formulation of maxims turns out to be merely verbal. We simply cannot make our maxims fit the categorical imperative in this way. We act on the maxim that incorporates an objective sugge ...
... prudence, and immediate inclination. This has very important consequences. For instance, fiddling about with the formulation of maxims turns out to be merely verbal. We simply cannot make our maxims fit the categorical imperative in this way. We act on the maxim that incorporates an objective sugge ...
The Moral Point of View in Hume, Kant and Mill Margaret Marie
... distance and time can make to our non-moral reactions. From the general point of view, it does not matter how close to or far from someone we are. We adopt a point of view where we ignore the features particular to us, in our particular circumstances. In general, all sentiments of blame or praise ar ...
... distance and time can make to our non-moral reactions. From the general point of view, it does not matter how close to or far from someone we are. We adopt a point of view where we ignore the features particular to us, in our particular circumstances. In general, all sentiments of blame or praise ar ...
Hume and the Social Contract. A Systematic Evaluation
... Thus, ‘sovereignty’, i.e. the right of making and executing generally binding laws, is a competence attributed to the socio-political institution of government. This institution must be represented by natural persons—either the King, or Parliament, or a more complex construction that involves both. ...
... Thus, ‘sovereignty’, i.e. the right of making and executing generally binding laws, is a competence attributed to the socio-political institution of government. This institution must be represented by natural persons—either the King, or Parliament, or a more complex construction that involves both. ...
Preparing for Integrity
... than the acquisition of technical educative or administrative knowledge and skills. We will first consider the relationship between virtue and ethics and then consider how they connect to the development (or the existence) of integrity. Ethics, Virtue, and Integrity To begin with, we should stipulat ...
... than the acquisition of technical educative or administrative knowledge and skills. We will first consider the relationship between virtue and ethics and then consider how they connect to the development (or the existence) of integrity. Ethics, Virtue, and Integrity To begin with, we should stipulat ...
Virtue Ethics - Which Character Traits are Good?
... Is it helpful to think in terms of virtue/vice? Is character or action more important in I I ...
... Is it helpful to think in terms of virtue/vice? Is character or action more important in I I ...
An Internalist Dilemma - University of Colorado Boulder
... ‘internalism’ in the literature and I will not be concerned with all of them.1 The kind of internalist claims I am interested in have four basic claims in common. First, I understand internalism as a conceptual claim. It can be understood to state that a sentence to the effect that it is right to ...
... ‘internalism’ in the literature and I will not be concerned with all of them.1 The kind of internalist claims I am interested in have four basic claims in common. First, I understand internalism as a conceptual claim. It can be understood to state that a sentence to the effect that it is right to ...
HittIV - Michigan State University
... How does one define happiness, pleasure, and utility? The utilitarians tend to use such terms as happiness, pleasure, and utility as though these were universally meaningful concepts. But our own experience tells us that what constitutes happiness and pleasure for one person might be just the opposi ...
... How does one define happiness, pleasure, and utility? The utilitarians tend to use such terms as happiness, pleasure, and utility as though these were universally meaningful concepts. But our own experience tells us that what constitutes happiness and pleasure for one person might be just the opposi ...
Ethical Concerns in Public Administration
... American students of Political Science, in the early years of the last century, were dismayed at the inadequacies of the ethical approach in the Gilded Age. As a result of their interaction with the German universities and the influence on their thinking by scholars such as J.N Burgess, E.J. James, ...
... American students of Political Science, in the early years of the last century, were dismayed at the inadequacies of the ethical approach in the Gilded Age. As a result of their interaction with the German universities and the influence on their thinking by scholars such as J.N Burgess, E.J. James, ...
final final final
... an organization, to look at the public not at the organization, as if the public would be the problem. The loss of confidence has indeed to do with how the public perceives the organizations, but this perception derives from their ethical deficit rather than from a bad communication with their publi ...
... an organization, to look at the public not at the organization, as if the public would be the problem. The loss of confidence has indeed to do with how the public perceives the organizations, but this perception derives from their ethical deficit rather than from a bad communication with their publi ...