Abraham Lincoln:
... Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil. Civilization and Ethics, 1949 ...
... Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil. Civilization and Ethics, 1949 ...
Three types of modern virtue ethics
... • Hursthouse looks at the virtues that go with Aristotle’s Golden Mean, e.g. courage rather than foolhardiness or cowardice. • It is these moral virtues (that she calls the X-factor) that she is interested in. • If you, by nature, are virtuous then what you do will be virtuous. If you are bad, you ...
... • Hursthouse looks at the virtues that go with Aristotle’s Golden Mean, e.g. courage rather than foolhardiness or cowardice. • It is these moral virtues (that she calls the X-factor) that she is interested in. • If you, by nature, are virtuous then what you do will be virtuous. If you are bad, you ...
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... Usually, multiple justifiable decisions Let’s teach tools for ethical reasoning, not simply do’s and don’t’s Each situation is different, to be sure – But our system of thinking about ‘doing the right thing’ should be consistent – And beyond journalism: It doesn’t hurt to be able to apply the tools ...
... Usually, multiple justifiable decisions Let’s teach tools for ethical reasoning, not simply do’s and don’t’s Each situation is different, to be sure – But our system of thinking about ‘doing the right thing’ should be consistent – And beyond journalism: It doesn’t hurt to be able to apply the tools ...
Alasdair MacIntyre
... • Outcome of a three-stage history: – First: Moral practice embodies genuine objective and impersonal standards which provide rational justification for actions and can themselves be rationally justified. – Second: unsuccessful attempts to maintain objectivity of ethics but rational justification br ...
... • Outcome of a three-stage history: – First: Moral practice embodies genuine objective and impersonal standards which provide rational justification for actions and can themselves be rationally justified. – Second: unsuccessful attempts to maintain objectivity of ethics but rational justification br ...
Slide 1
... - shows a continual change in human needs and wants. • Energy: non-renewable resources are becoming more and more scarce. ...
... - shows a continual change in human needs and wants. • Energy: non-renewable resources are becoming more and more scarce. ...
Definition in Moral Discourse
... Then, you might criticize Beauchamp’s definition for making certain sacrificial deaths cases of (unjustified) suicide as “unfair”, “morally wrongheaded” etc. However, this criticism is misguided because Beauchamp is just trying to do 1., i.e., clarifying what people have been talking about by “suici ...
... Then, you might criticize Beauchamp’s definition for making certain sacrificial deaths cases of (unjustified) suicide as “unfair”, “morally wrongheaded” etc. However, this criticism is misguided because Beauchamp is just trying to do 1., i.e., clarifying what people have been talking about by “suici ...
SOCRATES
... • Topic: the nature of some moral virtue (areté), such as courage, piety, self-control or justice. • Aims: Testing ideas for logical consistency; proving that politicians and others who have claimed to have ‘wisdom’ about human affairs in fact lacked it; drawing attention to at least apparent errors ...
... • Topic: the nature of some moral virtue (areté), such as courage, piety, self-control or justice. • Aims: Testing ideas for logical consistency; proving that politicians and others who have claimed to have ‘wisdom’ about human affairs in fact lacked it; drawing attention to at least apparent errors ...
Review of Kieran Setiya`s Knowing Right from Wrong
... impossible: “Since I know that torture is wrong, that courage is a virtue, that there is reason to care about people other than oneself, and since I think that you know it, too, constitutive independence [of moral facts] has to go” (115). (Well, one philosopher’s modus ponens is, as they say, anothe ...
... impossible: “Since I know that torture is wrong, that courage is a virtue, that there is reason to care about people other than oneself, and since I think that you know it, too, constitutive independence [of moral facts] has to go” (115). (Well, one philosopher’s modus ponens is, as they say, anothe ...
Kants ethics and suicide show
... For Kant the only acceptable motive for moral action was a sense of duty. ...
... For Kant the only acceptable motive for moral action was a sense of duty. ...
moral imperative
... • “He calls this inborn faculty the moral imperative, or sense of ought: an intuitive classification of actions and choices as morally acceptable or unacceptable. Experience teaches us which specific actions are right and which are not, but “rightness” and “wrongness,” like “nextness,” cannot be tau ...
... • “He calls this inborn faculty the moral imperative, or sense of ought: an intuitive classification of actions and choices as morally acceptable or unacceptable. Experience teaches us which specific actions are right and which are not, but “rightness” and “wrongness,” like “nextness,” cannot be tau ...
Williams - Interlude Relativism
... “Every society has its own standards” is a useful maxim of social study, but what is one supposed to do when confronted with some abomination? The response that you “had no right to be there” is no excuse for inaction, just as it would be no excuse on the part of a burglar who failed to prevent a mu ...
... “Every society has its own standards” is a useful maxim of social study, but what is one supposed to do when confronted with some abomination? The response that you “had no right to be there” is no excuse for inaction, just as it would be no excuse on the part of a burglar who failed to prevent a mu ...
Subjectivism in Ethics
... opinions are based on our feelings and nothing more. On this view, there is no such thing as “objective” right and wrong. ...
... opinions are based on our feelings and nothing more. On this view, there is no such thing as “objective” right and wrong. ...
Rules of the Justice Game (Dershowitz)
... Rules of the Justice Game (Dershowitz) Rule I: Almost all criminal defendants are, in fact, guilty. Rule II: All criminal defense lawyers, prosecutors, and judges understand and believe Rule I. Rule III: It is easier to convict guilty defendants by violating the Constitution than by complying with ...
... Rules of the Justice Game (Dershowitz) Rule I: Almost all criminal defendants are, in fact, guilty. Rule II: All criminal defense lawyers, prosecutors, and judges understand and believe Rule I. Rule III: It is easier to convict guilty defendants by violating the Constitution than by complying with ...
Kohlberg`s Theory of Moral Development
... Very rare; only 10% of adults are found here Morality is completely internalized Stage 5: What is moral is not necessarily equal to what is legal. Laws can be unjust, in which case the moral thing to do is break the law. Person is bound only by internal moral code. Stage 6: so abstract and “transcen ...
... Very rare; only 10% of adults are found here Morality is completely internalized Stage 5: What is moral is not necessarily equal to what is legal. Laws can be unjust, in which case the moral thing to do is break the law. Person is bound only by internal moral code. Stage 6: so abstract and “transcen ...
Ethics: What Is Right?
... simply because one may find the practice personally repugnant or that it is morally acceptable simply because one enjoys recreational drug use. There has to be some kind of objective criteria that we can point to about the act that makes it right or wrong. A moral theory will be objective if it is c ...
... simply because one may find the practice personally repugnant or that it is morally acceptable simply because one enjoys recreational drug use. There has to be some kind of objective criteria that we can point to about the act that makes it right or wrong. A moral theory will be objective if it is c ...
Environmental ethics
... – Is an experience by an animal ever understandable to humans? How do we translate an experience of an animal into human experience? – If holistic entities are intrinsically valuable, how do we take into account individuals of that whole? • ’No ought from is’ – prevalent state of matters does not te ...
... – Is an experience by an animal ever understandable to humans? How do we translate an experience of an animal into human experience? – If holistic entities are intrinsically valuable, how do we take into account individuals of that whole? • ’No ought from is’ – prevalent state of matters does not te ...
10 Moral Philosophy STUDENT GUIDE
... 20. Socrates: Wrongness of behavior is due to ignorance. 21. Plato. Theory of Forms: At the apex of all Forms is the Form of the Good. Corollary: Because the Forms define true reality, individual things are real only insofar as they partake of the Form of the Good. Additional corollary: Evil is unre ...
... 20. Socrates: Wrongness of behavior is due to ignorance. 21. Plato. Theory of Forms: At the apex of all Forms is the Form of the Good. Corollary: Because the Forms define true reality, individual things are real only insofar as they partake of the Form of the Good. Additional corollary: Evil is unre ...
Weaving a Moral Ecology
... Principles of Permaculture 1. Everything has needs and products. 2. The time it takes for a resource to go through the system is more important than the quantity of the resource. 3. Stacking Function: At least three reasons for doing anything. 4. Redundancy: Every essential function is carried out ...
... Principles of Permaculture 1. Everything has needs and products. 2. The time it takes for a resource to go through the system is more important than the quantity of the resource. 3. Stacking Function: At least three reasons for doing anything. 4. Redundancy: Every essential function is carried out ...
Theories of Morality - Fort Thomas Independent Schools
... Kant believed that our actions were not as important as our intentions in morality Kant also believed all humans were capable, through reason, of figuring out right/wrong. Reason is an authority ‘in’ us but it transcends us Why be Moral?: “It is the rationale thing to do.” ...
... Kant believed that our actions were not as important as our intentions in morality Kant also believed all humans were capable, through reason, of figuring out right/wrong. Reason is an authority ‘in’ us but it transcends us Why be Moral?: “It is the rationale thing to do.” ...
File - Clydeview Academy Humanities Website
... may be used to interpret and understand scripture and tradition may be used to help reinterpret scripture and tradition in new contexts may be the main guide to help the believer to understand for her/himself the rationality of the guidance given in sacred writings human reason is one of God's gifts ...
... may be used to interpret and understand scripture and tradition may be used to help reinterpret scripture and tradition in new contexts may be the main guide to help the believer to understand for her/himself the rationality of the guidance given in sacred writings human reason is one of God's gifts ...
Stages of Moral Development
... emphasis on procedure for reaching consensus. Aside from what is democratically agreed upon, right action is a matter of personal values and opinions. It assumes a legal point of view, with the possibility of changing the law because of rational considerations. It is not a strict "law and order" app ...
... emphasis on procedure for reaching consensus. Aside from what is democratically agreed upon, right action is a matter of personal values and opinions. It assumes a legal point of view, with the possibility of changing the law because of rational considerations. It is not a strict "law and order" app ...
Morality and Ethics
... You shoot the intruder You did it because you had a duty to your protect your family and your property. Action was good ...
... You shoot the intruder You did it because you had a duty to your protect your family and your property. Action was good ...
Moral responsibility
In philosophy, moral responsibility is the status of morally deserving praise, blame, reward, or punishment for an act or omission, in accordance with one's moral obligations.Deciding what (if anything) counts as ""morally obligatory"" is a principal concern of ethics.Philosophers refer to people who have moral responsibility for an action as moral agents. Agents have the capability to reflect on their situation, to form intentions about how they will act, and then to carry out that action. The notion of free will has become an important issue in the debate on whether individuals are ever morally responsible for their actions and, if so, in what sense. Incompatibilists regard determinism as at odds with free will, whereas compatibilists think the two can coexist.Moral responsibility does not necessarily equate to legal responsibility. A person is legally responsible for an event when a legal system is liable to penalise that person for that event. Although it may often be the case that when a person is morally responsible for an act, they are also legally responsible for it, the two states do not always coincide.