Steven Pinker, The Moral Instinct
... Rozin showed that the moral motive sets off a cascade of opinions. Moral vegetarians are more likely to treat meat as a contaminant — they refuse, for example, to eat a bowl of soup into which a drop of beef broth has fallen. They are more likely to think that other people ought to be vegetarians, a ...
... Rozin showed that the moral motive sets off a cascade of opinions. Moral vegetarians are more likely to treat meat as a contaminant — they refuse, for example, to eat a bowl of soup into which a drop of beef broth has fallen. They are more likely to think that other people ought to be vegetarians, a ...
Unit 9 Study Guide - Answers
... cognitive development, and comment on how children’s thinking changes during these four stages. 14. The term for all the mental activities associated with thinking, remembering, communicating, and knowing is ___COGNITION_______. 15. In Piaget’s first stage of development, the __SENSIORMOTOR_______ s ...
... cognitive development, and comment on how children’s thinking changes during these four stages. 14. The term for all the mental activities associated with thinking, remembering, communicating, and knowing is ___COGNITION_______. 15. In Piaget’s first stage of development, the __SENSIORMOTOR_______ s ...
Ethics and Business
... 2. Corporate issues─questions raised about a particular company. These include questions about the morality of the activities, policies, practices, or organizational structure of an individual company taken as a whole. 3. Individual issues─questions about a particular individual within an organizat ...
... 2. Corporate issues─questions raised about a particular company. These include questions about the morality of the activities, policies, practices, or organizational structure of an individual company taken as a whole. 3. Individual issues─questions about a particular individual within an organizat ...
handout - General Guide To Personal and Societies Web Space at
... Two, a general claim is made regarding philosophical methodology: a basic claim made is that metaethics is not sharply distinct from normative ethics, and normative ethics not sharply distinct from applied ethics, which is not sharply distinct from personal position. This general claim is made promi ...
... Two, a general claim is made regarding philosophical methodology: a basic claim made is that metaethics is not sharply distinct from normative ethics, and normative ethics not sharply distinct from applied ethics, which is not sharply distinct from personal position. This general claim is made promi ...
Durkheim`s "Moral Education"
... either group disapproval and sanction or where mores become laws, by legal action."(Marshall, 1998: p. 431) As Durkheim says morality is a social phenomenon and is relative to the needs and structures of particular societies and is open to systematic observation (Lukes, 1973: p. 111). It was an impo ...
... either group disapproval and sanction or where mores become laws, by legal action."(Marshall, 1998: p. 431) As Durkheim says morality is a social phenomenon and is relative to the needs and structures of particular societies and is open to systematic observation (Lukes, 1973: p. 111). It was an impo ...
Resistance and Subversion in Everyday Life
... choice. Although resistance and subversion are grounded in moral judgements, the personal domain can be part of it. When personal prerogatives are systematically restricted in unequal ways, the inequality can turn the personal into moral issues. This can be seen in Mernissi’s story—which on the surf ...
... choice. Although resistance and subversion are grounded in moral judgements, the personal domain can be part of it. When personal prerogatives are systematically restricted in unequal ways, the inequality can turn the personal into moral issues. This can be seen in Mernissi’s story—which on the surf ...
Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action
... term “ cognitivist ethics .” A cognitivist ethics must answer the question of how to justify normative statements….. Only those norms may claim to be valid that could meet with the consent of all affected in their role as participants in a practical discourse….. For a norm to be valid, the consequen ...
... term “ cognitivist ethics .” A cognitivist ethics must answer the question of how to justify normative statements….. Only those norms may claim to be valid that could meet with the consent of all affected in their role as participants in a practical discourse….. For a norm to be valid, the consequen ...
Moral Philosophy and Business
... bad for everyone affected by our actions. By “good” utilitarians mean happiness, or pleasure. The basic theme of this view is held in the work of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. Bentham thought that pleasure and pain were types of sensation, and offered a “hedonic calculus” of six criteria for ...
... bad for everyone affected by our actions. By “good” utilitarians mean happiness, or pleasure. The basic theme of this view is held in the work of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. Bentham thought that pleasure and pain were types of sensation, and offered a “hedonic calculus” of six criteria for ...
The Moral Instinct - Salisbury University
... The first hallmark of moralization is that the rules it invokes are felt to be universal. Prohibitions of rape and murder, for example, are felt not to be matters of local custom but to be universally and objectively warranted. One can easily say, “I don’t like brussels sprouts, but I don’t care if ...
... The first hallmark of moralization is that the rules it invokes are felt to be universal. Prohibitions of rape and murder, for example, are felt not to be matters of local custom but to be universally and objectively warranted. One can easily say, “I don’t like brussels sprouts, but I don’t care if ...
Ethics 481 2008 3
... the moral life, one that promises to reduce or eliminate moral disagreement. If ...
... the moral life, one that promises to reduce or eliminate moral disagreement. If ...
Ethics and Leadership
... Question: From where do transcendent values come? (Theism or Humanism?) Question: If ethics is no more than custom (what is done); then ethical behavior is doing no more than what is normally done in that culture. (Experience in one culture) ...
... Question: From where do transcendent values come? (Theism or Humanism?) Question: If ethics is no more than custom (what is done); then ethical behavior is doing no more than what is normally done in that culture. (Experience in one culture) ...
Priming family values: How being a parent affects moral evaluations
... is to somehow link that behavior to negative effects on children. The present results may also help explain the widespread belief that societal morality is declining (Eibach & Libby, 2009). People generally overlook or underestimate changes in their own interpretations of events and this causes them ...
... is to somehow link that behavior to negative effects on children. The present results may also help explain the widespread belief that societal morality is declining (Eibach & Libby, 2009). People generally overlook or underestimate changes in their own interpretations of events and this causes them ...
Beyond Formalism and Altruism
... its cue from Kant’s (1797/1991) belief that acting for the good of others can be moral, whereas acting for one’s own good cannot. We criticized research on “prosocial” development for a series of biases and confusions regarding behavior that is intended to promote the good of others. A stark example ...
... its cue from Kant’s (1797/1991) belief that acting for the good of others can be moral, whereas acting for one’s own good cannot. We criticized research on “prosocial” development for a series of biases and confusions regarding behavior that is intended to promote the good of others. A stark example ...
Moral Personality: Themes, Questions, Futures
... Erikson’s lifespan theory of development proved useful in framing research on the role of moral identity and the life tasks of generativity in middle adulthood. Indeed, Pratt and his colleagues make the interesting point that perhaps generativity itself is a nascent developmental variable that has m ...
... Erikson’s lifespan theory of development proved useful in framing research on the role of moral identity and the life tasks of generativity in middle adulthood. Indeed, Pratt and his colleagues make the interesting point that perhaps generativity itself is a nascent developmental variable that has m ...
James Rachels: The Debate over Utilitarianism
... not resign it for any quantity of the other pleasures which their nature is capable of. 4. According to Mill, whose happiness must be considered? For me, in what I understand about the case, those who are in greater in number or the majority should be considered in happiness. 5. Carefully reconstruc ...
... not resign it for any quantity of the other pleasures which their nature is capable of. 4. According to Mill, whose happiness must be considered? For me, in what I understand about the case, those who are in greater in number or the majority should be considered in happiness. 5. Carefully reconstruc ...
Morality and Justice Final Paper
... What makes something right versus wrong? For years, philosophers have strived to provide an answer to this question on how we should live. Immanuel Kant simply believed that there is a single fundamental principle of morality in which all moral duties are based. He calls this the categorical imperat ...
... What makes something right versus wrong? For years, philosophers have strived to provide an answer to this question on how we should live. Immanuel Kant simply believed that there is a single fundamental principle of morality in which all moral duties are based. He calls this the categorical imperat ...
Ethical Decision Making Process - Psychological and Organizational
... People tend to underestimate potential risks because of illusion of optimism People generally think they themselves are less susceptible to risk than others Illusion of control is the belief that we really are in charge of what happens to us Overall, we focus on information that confirms our prefere ...
... People tend to underestimate potential risks because of illusion of optimism People generally think they themselves are less susceptible to risk than others Illusion of control is the belief that we really are in charge of what happens to us Overall, we focus on information that confirms our prefere ...
Presentación de PowerPoint
... developments in science and popular culture and a means for our society to talk about its deepest moral concerns, fears and hopes. This languageis employed to promote scholarly and public understanding of the ethical, legal, social and public policy implications of advances in the life sciences and ...
... developments in science and popular culture and a means for our society to talk about its deepest moral concerns, fears and hopes. This languageis employed to promote scholarly and public understanding of the ethical, legal, social and public policy implications of advances in the life sciences and ...
Normative Ethical Theory
... 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. ...
Environmental Ethics
... Criteria of Moral Considerability Future Generations Predictability Models of Humans and Nature ...
... Criteria of Moral Considerability Future Generations Predictability Models of Humans and Nature ...
The Case for Cultural Diversity
... “Alaska is landlocked,” and you were to say, “No, it is not landlocked; it has a border on the sea,” we would disagree in a way in which at least one of us must be wrong: we have said of one thing, Alaska, that it has and does not have some feature at the same time and in the same respect So, if cul ...
... “Alaska is landlocked,” and you were to say, “No, it is not landlocked; it has a border on the sea,” we would disagree in a way in which at least one of us must be wrong: we have said of one thing, Alaska, that it has and does not have some feature at the same time and in the same respect So, if cul ...
Call - Evgenia Mylonaki
... conditions in which the means of sustaining (most or all of) the hitherto entrenched social practices which constitute a way of life have been wiped out, even though the circumstances that call for these practices have not. In other words, conditions in which the hitherto active individuals are no l ...
... conditions in which the means of sustaining (most or all of) the hitherto entrenched social practices which constitute a way of life have been wiped out, even though the circumstances that call for these practices have not. In other words, conditions in which the hitherto active individuals are no l ...
In human nature theory (or axiology) moral development notions
... childhood beliefs, nor the failure of this wisdom to actually show itself. Likewise, direct moral development views cannot explain evolution's highly distinctive selection of such a complexly civilized and culturally mediated form of social reasoning and cooperation. Nor can they explain why peculia ...
... childhood beliefs, nor the failure of this wisdom to actually show itself. Likewise, direct moral development views cannot explain evolution's highly distinctive selection of such a complexly civilized and culturally mediated form of social reasoning and cooperation. Nor can they explain why peculia ...
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... telos (purpose, nature, or end) of the social practice in question To reason about the telos of a practice is, in part, to reason about what virtues it should honor. For Aristotle, justice involves two factors: “things, and the persons to whom things are assigned” What is the purpose of a flute? To ...
... telos (purpose, nature, or end) of the social practice in question To reason about the telos of a practice is, in part, to reason about what virtues it should honor. For Aristotle, justice involves two factors: “things, and the persons to whom things are assigned” What is the purpose of a flute? To ...