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... • Blurs distinction between doing what you think is right and doing what you want to do (Who are you to tell me what is right?) • Makes no moral distinction between the actions of different people (Hitler vs Mother Teresa) • SR and tolerance are two different things – (choosing to act only with your ...
... • Blurs distinction between doing what you think is right and doing what you want to do (Who are you to tell me what is right?) • Makes no moral distinction between the actions of different people (Hitler vs Mother Teresa) • SR and tolerance are two different things – (choosing to act only with your ...
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 ...
The Moral Point of View in Hume, Kant and Mill Margaret Marie
... Hume, Kant and Mill each approach morality with distinctly different frameworks and methodologies, but it is important to acknowledge that they all share the crucial thought that morality involves an impartial point of view. Of course, to say that morality involves an impartial point of view is to s ...
... Hume, Kant and Mill each approach morality with distinctly different frameworks and methodologies, but it is important to acknowledge that they all share the crucial thought that morality involves an impartial point of view. Of course, to say that morality involves an impartial point of view is to s ...
Ethical Pluralism as a Framework for Discussing Moral
... In ethics, I have been interested in sketching out a middle ground between absolutism and relativism. In teaching, I have been interested in exploring ways in which we visualize knowledge. ...
... In ethics, I have been interested in sketching out a middle ground between absolutism and relativism. In teaching, I have been interested in exploring ways in which we visualize knowledge. ...
English 11: Hamlet`s Delay
... contrasted with the play, Titus Andronicus, where a son faces a similar situation to that of Hamlet; he seeks vengeance on behalf of his father. However, for this son, the decision to avenge is simple: “Can the son’s eye behold his father bleed? / There’s meed for meed, death for deadly deed!” (5.3. ...
... contrasted with the play, Titus Andronicus, where a son faces a similar situation to that of Hamlet; he seeks vengeance on behalf of his father. However, for this son, the decision to avenge is simple: “Can the son’s eye behold his father bleed? / There’s meed for meed, death for deadly deed!” (5.3. ...
How AI can Help us to Better Understand Moral Cognition
... considered, an action may be right (or permissible, or acceptable…) even if it contains wrong-making (or impermissible-making, …) features. Two1 conceptions of moral principles have been identified; let us now examine some of the attitudes that particularists may take towards those principles. Moral ...
... considered, an action may be right (or permissible, or acceptable…) even if it contains wrong-making (or impermissible-making, …) features. Two1 conceptions of moral principles have been identified; let us now examine some of the attitudes that particularists may take towards those principles. Moral ...
lewiscatron - Michigan State University
... ethics problems; one function of the moral imagination is to generate creative resolutions of these impasses. By redefining dilemmas as part of the process of mediating and reconciling disputes, administrators can influence outcomes without taking exclusive ownership of public affairs. The best solu ...
... ethics problems; one function of the moral imagination is to generate creative resolutions of these impasses. By redefining dilemmas as part of the process of mediating and reconciling disputes, administrators can influence outcomes without taking exclusive ownership of public affairs. The best solu ...
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... human condition, and to improve our morality. Powerful AGIs will arrive long before significant IA Legal issues are more likely to center around limiting the production or use of AGIs, rather than protecting AGIs Legal mechanisms will be ineffective Peter Voss ...
... human condition, and to improve our morality. Powerful AGIs will arrive long before significant IA Legal issues are more likely to center around limiting the production or use of AGIs, rather than protecting AGIs Legal mechanisms will be ineffective Peter Voss ...
Moral Health, Moral Prosperity and Universalization in Kant`s Ethics
... that it indicates it has this problematic feature and not some other, since it is this characteristic in virtue of which it is wrong. Having arrived at this account of the distinction between perfect and imperfect duties by considering the division of these duties in The Metaphysics of Morals, we ca ...
... that it indicates it has this problematic feature and not some other, since it is this characteristic in virtue of which it is wrong. Having arrived at this account of the distinction between perfect and imperfect duties by considering the division of these duties in The Metaphysics of Morals, we ca ...
There Are No Ethical Leaders An Argument for Ethical Individuals Patrick Brousseau
... The latter deals with an individual’s efforts to promote ethics and influence the actions of others, while the former are those behaviours, intentions, and characteristics whic h make up the ethical individual (Trevino, Brown, & Hartman, 2000). Combined ...
... The latter deals with an individual’s efforts to promote ethics and influence the actions of others, while the former are those behaviours, intentions, and characteristics whic h make up the ethical individual (Trevino, Brown, & Hartman, 2000). Combined ...
Information Technology And Control
... Principle (cf. Pojman, 2002). Three countries were selected to conduct the investigation – Brazil, China, and Estonia. These three countries are from three different cultural clusters. A scale was developed to measure Ethical Relativism and No-harm Principle. The national cultural connection was str ...
... Principle (cf. Pojman, 2002). Three countries were selected to conduct the investigation – Brazil, China, and Estonia. These three countries are from three different cultural clusters. A scale was developed to measure Ethical Relativism and No-harm Principle. The national cultural connection was str ...
The Formula of the Universal Law
... contradiction? It appears that it does not. The principle of the metamorphosis of forms is consistent with Jones’s murder maxim and its elevation to universal status. Kant, of course, would object. It is interesting to ask: “On what grounds?” Most apparently, his objection would be based on his form ...
... contradiction? It appears that it does not. The principle of the metamorphosis of forms is consistent with Jones’s murder maxim and its elevation to universal status. Kant, of course, would object. It is interesting to ask: “On what grounds?” Most apparently, his objection would be based on his form ...
Chapter 2—Normative Theories of Ethics MULTIPLE CHOICE 1
... 7. Which of the following considerations about utilitarianism is correct? a. The great 19th century utilitarians, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, believed that pleasure and happiness were different things. b. Unlike Mill, Bentham was only concerned with the amount of pleasure that an action pro ...
... 7. Which of the following considerations about utilitarianism is correct? a. The great 19th century utilitarians, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, believed that pleasure and happiness were different things. b. Unlike Mill, Bentham was only concerned with the amount of pleasure that an action pro ...
Universally Preferable Behaviour
... Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. In taking on this mammoth task – particularly in such a short book – I have set myself some basic ground rules, which are worth going over here. (Most of these will be discussed in more detail throughout the course of this book.) 1. I fully accept th ...
... Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. In taking on this mammoth task – particularly in such a short book – I have set myself some basic ground rules, which are worth going over here. (Most of these will be discussed in more detail throughout the course of this book.) 1. I fully accept th ...
The Emptiness of the Moral Law
... beings. Moreover, if the assumption is normative, it is not morally norma tive. It deals with the rational pursuit of self-interest, not with moral duty. But the result of the argument is moral, not prudential. Since it is a counterfactual circumstance that the cold-hearted man's maxim holds as a l ...
... beings. Moreover, if the assumption is normative, it is not morally norma tive. It deals with the rational pursuit of self-interest, not with moral duty. But the result of the argument is moral, not prudential. Since it is a counterfactual circumstance that the cold-hearted man's maxim holds as a l ...
Objective and Subjective Ends in Kant`s Realm of Ends
... Objective and Subjective Ends in Kant’s Realm of Ends In the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant assesses his idea of a moral world as a ‘realm of ends’ (‘Reich der Zwecke’) defining it as ‘a whole of all ends in systematic connection (a whole both of rational beings as ends in themselves ...
... Objective and Subjective Ends in Kant’s Realm of Ends In the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant assesses his idea of a moral world as a ‘realm of ends’ (‘Reich der Zwecke’) defining it as ‘a whole of all ends in systematic connection (a whole both of rational beings as ends in themselves ...
Aristotle on the Virtue of Phronesis - Inter
... not, is entirely another matter. Virtue is a major component of human flourishing and will be considered next. 4. Virtue and Choice For Aristotle the Good Life is a moral life of virtue. ‘Every art and every enquiry and similarly every action, and choice, is thought to aim at some good.’ 14 To under ...
... not, is entirely another matter. Virtue is a major component of human flourishing and will be considered next. 4. Virtue and Choice For Aristotle the Good Life is a moral life of virtue. ‘Every art and every enquiry and similarly every action, and choice, is thought to aim at some good.’ 14 To under ...
The Raul Hilberg Memorial Lecture The Failure(s) of Ethics:
... profane. Value judgments affect everything we do: from the ways that individuals spend their money to the interests that nations defend. Taken in this sense, it can be argued that every person, community, and nation is ethical. All of them have normative beliefs and make evaluative judgments. Ethics ...
... profane. Value judgments affect everything we do: from the ways that individuals spend their money to the interests that nations defend. Taken in this sense, it can be argued that every person, community, and nation is ethical. All of them have normative beliefs and make evaluative judgments. Ethics ...
Moral Beauty as An Overriding Imperative in
... contexts like societies or institutions (virtues such as justice and benevolence). An individual might want to pursue a career that can actualize their potential but doing so might jeopardize both the roles they are expected to enact in society and the lives of people dependent on the proper executi ...
... contexts like societies or institutions (virtues such as justice and benevolence). An individual might want to pursue a career that can actualize their potential but doing so might jeopardize both the roles they are expected to enact in society and the lives of people dependent on the proper executi ...
Utilitarianism-R-Warren-041014
... Calculate net happiness of consequences, including unhappiness (suffering) which may occur. The demands of Utilitarianism: Too much? Impartiality over moral proximity. ‘Each counts for one and no one for more than one’ ‘The question is not can they reason? Nor can they talk? But, can they suffer?’ T ...
... Calculate net happiness of consequences, including unhappiness (suffering) which may occur. The demands of Utilitarianism: Too much? Impartiality over moral proximity. ‘Each counts for one and no one for more than one’ ‘The question is not can they reason? Nor can they talk? But, can they suffer?’ T ...
6. Why Bother
... Most of the self-actualized people studied agreed on the key elements of human good ...
... Most of the self-actualized people studied agreed on the key elements of human good ...
Egoism
... ship sank and a desperate man a few yards off is calling for help. There are no other survivors, the man has no chance without you, and you have no interest in saving him. EE suggests you have no duty to save the man since any such duty would have to be grounded in your having a reason to act, and, ...
... ship sank and a desperate man a few yards off is calling for help. There are no other survivors, the man has no chance without you, and you have no interest in saving him. EE suggests you have no duty to save the man since any such duty would have to be grounded in your having a reason to act, and, ...
Moral Rationalism and Rational Amoralism
... moral arguments to justify and give reasons for action is sufficient to support the moderate existence internalism which rationalism entails. What defense do I offer of judgment internalism connecting moral judgments and motives, and what sort of necessary connection do I defend? My favored formulat ...
... moral arguments to justify and give reasons for action is sufficient to support the moderate existence internalism which rationalism entails. What defense do I offer of judgment internalism connecting moral judgments and motives, and what sort of necessary connection do I defend? My favored formulat ...