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... Happiness or well-being therefore must involve the blossoming and realization of our rationality, our ability to think, contemplate and reflect. To find happiness or well-being by developing our telos, our rationality, we must develop intellectual and moral virtues – that is, we must each become a v ...
... Happiness or well-being therefore must involve the blossoming and realization of our rationality, our ability to think, contemplate and reflect. To find happiness or well-being by developing our telos, our rationality, we must develop intellectual and moral virtues – that is, we must each become a v ...
Ch. 5 Reading Guide
... 14. True or False? Not following what your conscience instructs you to do makes you guilty of sin. 15. True or False? A well-formed conscience will never make mistakes. 16. What is one of the major reasons for an erroneous conscience? 17. One type of ignorance results from ____________________ in wh ...
... 14. True or False? Not following what your conscience instructs you to do makes you guilty of sin. 15. True or False? A well-formed conscience will never make mistakes. 16. What is one of the major reasons for an erroneous conscience? 17. One type of ignorance results from ____________________ in wh ...
Morally Permissible Moral Mistakes
... Finally, I argue that recognizing this category is useful in a number of ways. It helps us to see some features of supererogatory behavior that otherwise are ignored. It makes new moral views available to us. It makes new interpretations of our own and others’ commitments ...
... Finally, I argue that recognizing this category is useful in a number of ways. It helps us to see some features of supererogatory behavior that otherwise are ignored. It makes new moral views available to us. It makes new interpretations of our own and others’ commitments ...
WHAT WE CHOOSE: ETHICS FOR UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS A
... solely from a conceptual framework that helps us determine right and wrong, we overlook a fundamental influence in our ethical decision making: our relationships with others. As we live our day-to-day lives, we don't always ground our decisions in neatly framed logic, but instead respond from the he ...
... solely from a conceptual framework that helps us determine right and wrong, we overlook a fundamental influence in our ethical decision making: our relationships with others. As we live our day-to-day lives, we don't always ground our decisions in neatly framed logic, but instead respond from the he ...
WHAT WE CHOOSE: ETHICS FOR UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS A
... conceptual framework that helps us determine right and wrong, we overlook a fundamental influence in our ethical decision making: our relationships with others. As we live our day-to-day lives, we don't always ground our decisions in neatly framed logic, but instead respond from the heart—with compa ...
... conceptual framework that helps us determine right and wrong, we overlook a fundamental influence in our ethical decision making: our relationships with others. As we live our day-to-day lives, we don't always ground our decisions in neatly framed logic, but instead respond from the heart—with compa ...
Enhancing Moral Conformity and Enhancing Moral Worth
... subtly discriminatory behaviour. Or perhaps we do too little to prevent or correct global problems like environmental destruction and developing-world poverty. We may not think of these moral failures, taken in isolation, as particularly grievous, but we should acknowledge that they can aggregate wi ...
... subtly discriminatory behaviour. Or perhaps we do too little to prevent or correct global problems like environmental destruction and developing-world poverty. We may not think of these moral failures, taken in isolation, as particularly grievous, but we should acknowledge that they can aggregate wi ...
Utilitarianism: objections
... discovering what is right and wrong. We need to consider how much pleasure and pain (or preference satisfaction) an action will cause. But is it possible to work out the consequences of an action for human happiness? How can we know or work out the consequences of an action, to discover whether it m ...
... discovering what is right and wrong. We need to consider how much pleasure and pain (or preference satisfaction) an action will cause. But is it possible to work out the consequences of an action for human happiness? How can we know or work out the consequences of an action, to discover whether it m ...
Ethical Behavior
... “Character doesn’t stay at home when we go to work” • What is ethical behavior? • How can organizations maintain high standards of ethical conduct? ...
... “Character doesn’t stay at home when we go to work” • What is ethical behavior? • How can organizations maintain high standards of ethical conduct? ...
09. Ethical and bioethical issues
... Bioethics – what is it • It is a branch of knowledge like mathematics, and thinking in this field is not wholly different from thinking in those other fields, however it cannot be reduced to them. • Bioethical conclusions cannot be unambiguously proved like mathematical theorems • Research ethics o ...
... Bioethics – what is it • It is a branch of knowledge like mathematics, and thinking in this field is not wholly different from thinking in those other fields, however it cannot be reduced to them. • Bioethical conclusions cannot be unambiguously proved like mathematical theorems • Research ethics o ...
KANT S THEORY OF MORAL MOTIVATION
... Nevertheless, this does not mean that on Kant's view morality does not require one to "know (scrutinize fathom) yourself […] That is, know your heart--whether it is good or evil, whether the source of your actions is pure or impure" (6: 441). Indeed, since morality for Kant is not a matter of theor ...
... Nevertheless, this does not mean that on Kant's view morality does not require one to "know (scrutinize fathom) yourself […] That is, know your heart--whether it is good or evil, whether the source of your actions is pure or impure" (6: 441). Indeed, since morality for Kant is not a matter of theor ...
Medical Ethics
... • Principles or habits with respect to right or wrong conduct . It defines how things should work according to an individuals' ideals and principles. ...
... • Principles or habits with respect to right or wrong conduct . It defines how things should work according to an individuals' ideals and principles. ...
Progress Report 11 Moral dilemma PPT
... • Charlie eventually finds the answer inside himself; however, he does realize that all the “intelligence” in the world does not help him solve problems like this ...
... • Charlie eventually finds the answer inside himself; however, he does realize that all the “intelligence” in the world does not help him solve problems like this ...
Business Ethics: Case study of Primark Topic
... factors including religion, culture, and social practices of the society. Moral Relativism refers to the general belief that it is wrong to declare one culture superior to another culture. The corporations must acknowledge and respect the moral and cultural values of different culture in which they ...
... factors including religion, culture, and social practices of the society. Moral Relativism refers to the general belief that it is wrong to declare one culture superior to another culture. The corporations must acknowledge and respect the moral and cultural values of different culture in which they ...
3. Kant`s Moral Constructivism
... originating from our own will, we would have robbed ourselves of what we require. It would be irrational for us to will a social world in which every one, as if by a law of nature, is deaf to appeals based on this need. Kant does not say much about how the idea of a rational will works in this examp ...
... originating from our own will, we would have robbed ourselves of what we require. It would be irrational for us to will a social world in which every one, as if by a law of nature, is deaf to appeals based on this need. Kant does not say much about how the idea of a rational will works in this examp ...
Chapter 4
... Ethical and Unethical Workplace Behavior Ethics The set of moral principles or values that defines right and wrong for a person or group. ...
... Ethical and Unethical Workplace Behavior Ethics The set of moral principles or values that defines right and wrong for a person or group. ...
Autonomy, autarkeia, autarchy and anarchy: what do we need in
... as self rule allows behaviour to reflect the agent’s evaluative assessment and does not reflect selfsufficiency. Autonomy as self-rule allows for external factors to affect the agent but presupposes the evaluation and acceptance of these factors by the agent, while autonomy as self sufficiency does ...
... as self rule allows behaviour to reflect the agent’s evaluative assessment and does not reflect selfsufficiency. Autonomy as self-rule allows for external factors to affect the agent but presupposes the evaluation and acceptance of these factors by the agent, while autonomy as self sufficiency does ...
Philosophy 220
... Key element: “Everyone has the right to life” (407c1). Condition of the possibility of meaning/value? Don’t buy that? How about a little Kant? To kill someone is to treat them as a means to your end, rather than as an end in themselves. Implication: The killing of innocents (?) justified only on 2 c ...
... Key element: “Everyone has the right to life” (407c1). Condition of the possibility of meaning/value? Don’t buy that? How about a little Kant? To kill someone is to treat them as a means to your end, rather than as an end in themselves. Implication: The killing of innocents (?) justified only on 2 c ...
From Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 6 (1985) - UNC
... Yet the problems which render the coherence model unacceptable within this approach arise for the model's analogues in other approaches as well. 2. Conviction Ethics and Models for Theorizing Having moral convictions, and making moral judgments, are common features of experience. Many have taken the ...
... Yet the problems which render the coherence model unacceptable within this approach arise for the model's analogues in other approaches as well. 2. Conviction Ethics and Models for Theorizing Having moral convictions, and making moral judgments, are common features of experience. Many have taken the ...
Kant`s Categorical Imperatives
... universal moral maxims as and so become actual duties, they may change according unless circumstances mean to the particular contexts that there is an over-riding and likely consequences. reason not to follow them e.g. I ought not to lie, unless W.D. Ross lying might mean saving Intuitionist an inno ...
... universal moral maxims as and so become actual duties, they may change according unless circumstances mean to the particular contexts that there is an over-riding and likely consequences. reason not to follow them e.g. I ought not to lie, unless W.D. Ross lying might mean saving Intuitionist an inno ...
Nature of Argument PPT
... and take process arguments are multilateral, they evolve, change, and develop over time involves testing arguments in the “marketplace of ideas,” assumes the strongest arguments will prevail ...
... and take process arguments are multilateral, they evolve, change, and develop over time involves testing arguments in the “marketplace of ideas,” assumes the strongest arguments will prevail ...
What is ethics?
... about what is right to do from a moral or ethical perspective. • Managers often face situations where the appropriate course of action is not clear . • For example, the manager of a company may be put in a position in which he must choose between the interests of his employees and his investors. Giv ...
... about what is right to do from a moral or ethical perspective. • Managers often face situations where the appropriate course of action is not clear . • For example, the manager of a company may be put in a position in which he must choose between the interests of his employees and his investors. Giv ...
Nature of Argument
... and take process arguments are multilateral, they evolve, change, and develop over time involves testing arguments in the “marketplace of ideas,” assumes the strongest arguments will prevail ...
... and take process arguments are multilateral, they evolve, change, and develop over time involves testing arguments in the “marketplace of ideas,” assumes the strongest arguments will prevail ...