On the Historical Development of Confucianists
... lower stratum in the society.” (cf., 119). It is clear that Confucius was also a common scholar when he was young, but he was not satisfied with his position and was determined to realize his great ideals of managing state affairs with his profound erudition and lofty aspirations. And thereupon, in ...
... lower stratum in the society.” (cf., 119). It is clear that Confucius was also a common scholar when he was young, but he was not satisfied with his position and was determined to realize his great ideals of managing state affairs with his profound erudition and lofty aspirations. And thereupon, in ...
Good Minus God: The Moral Atheist - NYTimes.com - RIT
... they are - independently of His favoring them - morally good? D.C.T. picks the first option; it says that it's the mere fact that God favors them that makes morally good things morally good. Theories that endorse the second option - let's call any such theory a "Divine Independence Theory" (D.I.T.) ...
... they are - independently of His favoring them - morally good? D.C.T. picks the first option; it says that it's the mere fact that God favors them that makes morally good things morally good. Theories that endorse the second option - let's call any such theory a "Divine Independence Theory" (D.I.T.) ...
Moral Inquiry - Blackwell Publishing
... Confucian way of life. A comparison of two different religious traditions based on deontological theory would identify the key moral rules in each tradition and compare the patterns of action expected from believers who follow these rules. Deontological theories give less attention to consequences a ...
... Confucian way of life. A comparison of two different religious traditions based on deontological theory would identify the key moral rules in each tradition and compare the patterns of action expected from believers who follow these rules. Deontological theories give less attention to consequences a ...
On acts, omissions and responsibility
... usefully argue about these matters unless we are clear about what our arguments touch upon.2 Although it seems to have become received wisdom from ethicists of quite conflicting views that moral propriety can not hang merely on whether a situation obtains because of (inter alia) an agent’s action or ...
... usefully argue about these matters unless we are clear about what our arguments touch upon.2 Although it seems to have become received wisdom from ethicists of quite conflicting views that moral propriety can not hang merely on whether a situation obtains because of (inter alia) an agent’s action or ...
Ethics
... caring, and civic virtue and citizenship. These core ethical values transcend cultural, religious, and socioeconomic differences.” Aspen Declaration, July 1992 ...
... caring, and civic virtue and citizenship. These core ethical values transcend cultural, religious, and socioeconomic differences.” Aspen Declaration, July 1992 ...
Evolutionary Theory and Morality: Why the Science Doesn`t Settle
... something that might be affected by magnets. To speak of morality in the normative sense is to speak of how we really ought to live, and this is what you’re doing when you say, as a committed moral agent, that morality prohibits bullying or rape, for example, or more simply that such things are mora ...
... something that might be affected by magnets. To speak of morality in the normative sense is to speak of how we really ought to live, and this is what you’re doing when you say, as a committed moral agent, that morality prohibits bullying or rape, for example, or more simply that such things are mora ...
Pwrpt - People Server at UNCW
... reasonable amount of aid, while preserving our own happiness and well-being. 3. Singer’s claim that distance or personal feelings we have for the victims is irrelevant is contrary to human nature. ...
... reasonable amount of aid, while preserving our own happiness and well-being. 3. Singer’s claim that distance or personal feelings we have for the victims is irrelevant is contrary to human nature. ...
Ethical relativism is the view that moral codes are
... Were Bertram Harper’s actions in that Michigan hotel room morally justified? Bertram argued that he acted out of love for his wife. “I knew in my heart what I did was right. It was the only thing I could do to carry out her trust in me.” Did he do the right thing? Were you in a similar situation, wh ...
... Were Bertram Harper’s actions in that Michigan hotel room morally justified? Bertram argued that he acted out of love for his wife. “I knew in my heart what I did was right. It was the only thing I could do to carry out her trust in me.” Did he do the right thing? Were you in a similar situation, wh ...
ethics primer
... 2. Are all ethical judgments “subjective” or “culturally relative?” To say that a judgment is “subjective” is to say that it is not generally shared by others. To say that a judgment is “culturally relative” is to say that it holds in one culture but not for others. Now judgments like “Parents shoul ...
... 2. Are all ethical judgments “subjective” or “culturally relative?” To say that a judgment is “subjective” is to say that it is not generally shared by others. To say that a judgment is “culturally relative” is to say that it holds in one culture but not for others. Now judgments like “Parents shoul ...
Aristotle The only true justification of a kingdom is to create the ideal
... Ethics has to be based on laws of freedom and not on laws of nature (facts about the world) But ethics is not empirical, it must be founded on entirely priori principles i.e. principles that are based on reason, not on experience For our ideas to be moral laws, they must pass through our reason and ...
... Ethics has to be based on laws of freedom and not on laws of nature (facts about the world) But ethics is not empirical, it must be founded on entirely priori principles i.e. principles that are based on reason, not on experience For our ideas to be moral laws, they must pass through our reason and ...
References - University of Leeds
... The first step involves more that the usual stipulative definition of key terms; when it comes to the word “empathy” the waters of terminological confusion run deep. First of all, different commentators in diverse fields use “empathy” to designate two analytically distinct psychological phenomena. T ...
... The first step involves more that the usual stipulative definition of key terms; when it comes to the word “empathy” the waters of terminological confusion run deep. First of all, different commentators in diverse fields use “empathy” to designate two analytically distinct psychological phenomena. T ...
ethics2016-A
... The entire incident was picked up by surveillance videos and if you have the stomach for it you can watch what happened on YouTube. The little girl was first hit and run over by a mini-van and as she laid in the middle of the street in agony another small panel truck soon drove right over her. Inter ...
... The entire incident was picked up by surveillance videos and if you have the stomach for it you can watch what happened on YouTube. The little girl was first hit and run over by a mini-van and as she laid in the middle of the street in agony another small panel truck soon drove right over her. Inter ...
Responsibilities of a Staff Cadet/Officer
... to fulfill assigned duties and responsibilities should not be delegated. Authority should never be delegated beyond the lowest level of competence and may be limited by command. ...
... to fulfill assigned duties and responsibilities should not be delegated. Authority should never be delegated beyond the lowest level of competence and may be limited by command. ...
(Doesn`t) Make an Heroic Act?
... what most people can – or could be expected to – achieve. Virtue theory, therefore, supplies us with a plausible explanation of how these actions can be morally valuable without being duties: their value lies in the character of the agent who performs them, their willingness to put aside fear or per ...
... what most people can – or could be expected to – achieve. Virtue theory, therefore, supplies us with a plausible explanation of how these actions can be morally valuable without being duties: their value lies in the character of the agent who performs them, their willingness to put aside fear or per ...
MacIntyre and Anscombe: Two Modern Virtue Ethicists
... 2. Devise a course of a ‘virtue club’. What would the course do? ...
... 2. Devise a course of a ‘virtue club’. What would the course do? ...
Morality As Constitutive of Self-Interst
... So there’s a distinction between a subjective account of self-interest (one in which self-interest is defined by what the individual thinks or feels is in their interest) and an objective account of self-interest (in which self-interest is defined independently of an individuals judgement) Plato and ...
... So there’s a distinction between a subjective account of self-interest (one in which self-interest is defined by what the individual thinks or feels is in their interest) and an objective account of self-interest (in which self-interest is defined independently of an individuals judgement) Plato and ...
Ethics and Business
... Why Study Business Ethics • It must be remembered that the School of Business’ task is to prepare students for the business world. If ethics do not matter, then time spent teaching ethics is better spent elsewhere. • Business Ethics class is not aim simply to help you to learn about ethics, but aim ...
... Why Study Business Ethics • It must be remembered that the School of Business’ task is to prepare students for the business world. If ethics do not matter, then time spent teaching ethics is better spent elsewhere. • Business Ethics class is not aim simply to help you to learn about ethics, but aim ...
The origins of moral judgment - Victoria University of Wellington
... be motivated by a sense of moral duty should suffice to illuminate the distinction. The second conspicuous feature of the passage is that Darwin sees the moral sense as emerging (inevitably) from other traits: “social instincts” combined with “intellectual powers.” The latter powers he goes on to me ...
... be motivated by a sense of moral duty should suffice to illuminate the distinction. The second conspicuous feature of the passage is that Darwin sees the moral sense as emerging (inevitably) from other traits: “social instincts” combined with “intellectual powers.” The latter powers he goes on to me ...
Kant`s Ethics - Valdosta State University
... Always act so that the motive behind your action could be turned into a universally binding law, without inconsistency in other words, consider your reason for acting this way as opposed to some other, and ask yourself: ...
... Always act so that the motive behind your action could be turned into a universally binding law, without inconsistency in other words, consider your reason for acting this way as opposed to some other, and ask yourself: ...
THE MORAL SANCTION THE idea of a moral sanction has given
... supreme, -there will continue to exist certain incomplete reactions for the reason that the order of the uniVierse, while embracing individuals within itself, does not, however, suppress their existence. However, God, the Author of aU order, plays the principal role in the work of bringing to a conc ...
... supreme, -there will continue to exist certain incomplete reactions for the reason that the order of the uniVierse, while embracing individuals within itself, does not, however, suppress their existence. However, God, the Author of aU order, plays the principal role in the work of bringing to a conc ...
"Nihilism" encyclopedia entry - Victoria University of Wellington
... forlorn, because neither within him nor without does he find anything to cling to” (1945/1973). In fact, these “…then-everything-is-permissible” claims tend to be confused. Certainly the error theorist has no business claiming that “everything is permissible.” If moral nihilism is true, then nothing ...
... forlorn, because neither within him nor without does he find anything to cling to” (1945/1973). In fact, these “…then-everything-is-permissible” claims tend to be confused. Certainly the error theorist has no business claiming that “everything is permissible.” If moral nihilism is true, then nothing ...
Street`s Evolutionary Debunking Argument: Nuancing A Moral
... courages us to think in terms of the whole human species; thus, ethics is still objective and normative insofar as it applies to human beings and their experiences. Third, by taking on this species-relative view, we are able to resist making claims like Copp’s which fall prey to Street’s critique. A ...
... courages us to think in terms of the whole human species; thus, ethics is still objective and normative insofar as it applies to human beings and their experiences. Third, by taking on this species-relative view, we are able to resist making claims like Copp’s which fall prey to Street’s critique. A ...
hong kong baptist university
... and principles to resolve moral dilemmas arising from different fields in applied ethics. (3) To help students aware of the ethical concerns in different fields in applied ethics. ...
... and principles to resolve moral dilemmas arising from different fields in applied ethics. (3) To help students aware of the ethical concerns in different fields in applied ethics. ...
Religion III Ch 6 notes
... the sixth commandment, saying that sins against this commandment “don’t hurt anyone.” It is rare to find a situationist arguing for the right to steal, however, because stealing clearly hurts someone. ...
... the sixth commandment, saying that sins against this commandment “don’t hurt anyone.” It is rare to find a situationist arguing for the right to steal, however, because stealing clearly hurts someone. ...