The Teaching of Happiness in Mainland China: in Light of Aristotle
... abstract, and difficult to be elucidated to students, will help us establish a philosophical basis for the teaching of happiness in Mainland China. Different definitions or identification of happiness, besides the Marxist view, Aristotle’s in particular, would contribute to a full understanding of h ...
... abstract, and difficult to be elucidated to students, will help us establish a philosophical basis for the teaching of happiness in Mainland China. Different definitions or identification of happiness, besides the Marxist view, Aristotle’s in particular, would contribute to a full understanding of h ...
Moral Imagination and Adorno: Before and After Auschwitz
... prevention of another genocide. While most would agree with such a statement, practically how do we respond to such a call, specifically in light of Adorno’s work? Answering this question is at the heart of this project and I argue that imaginative memorials can fulfill Adorno’s criteria for post-Au ...
... prevention of another genocide. While most would agree with such a statement, practically how do we respond to such a call, specifically in light of Adorno’s work? Answering this question is at the heart of this project and I argue that imaginative memorials can fulfill Adorno’s criteria for post-Au ...
Ethics—The Basics by John Mizzoni
... Disadvantages of Virtue Ethics • Virtue ethics is anthropocentric • Virtue ethics is individually focused • Virtue ethics is incomplete • Why is one trait better than another? • How do we resolve moral conflict? • What about people with disabilities? ...
... Disadvantages of Virtue Ethics • Virtue ethics is anthropocentric • Virtue ethics is individually focused • Virtue ethics is incomplete • Why is one trait better than another? • How do we resolve moral conflict? • What about people with disabilities? ...
On Reasons to Live Justifiably: In Support of a Humean
... rightly because she has a reason to live with others on justifiable terms, I argue that this answer is unsatisfying according to Scanlon’s own criteria of success. However, by utilizing others of his arguments, I also am able to show that he could accept (and I think should accept) the ‘complex’ vie ...
... rightly because she has a reason to live with others on justifiable terms, I argue that this answer is unsatisfying according to Scanlon’s own criteria of success. However, by utilizing others of his arguments, I also am able to show that he could accept (and I think should accept) the ‘complex’ vie ...
WHAT WE CHOOSE: ETHICS FOR UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS A
... THE PROGRAM A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be a necessary good for the well-being of the people. — B.R. Ambedkar (1891-1956), Indian jurist, philosopher, writer, orator, and civil ...
... THE PROGRAM A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be a necessary good for the well-being of the people. — B.R. Ambedkar (1891-1956), Indian jurist, philosopher, writer, orator, and civil ...
Chapter 2
... Case Against Ethical Egoism • An easy moral philosophy may not be the best moral philosophy • We know a lot about what is good for someone else • Self-interest can lead to blatantly immoral behavior • Other moral principles are superior to principle of selfinterest • People who take the good of oth ...
... Case Against Ethical Egoism • An easy moral philosophy may not be the best moral philosophy • We know a lot about what is good for someone else • Self-interest can lead to blatantly immoral behavior • Other moral principles are superior to principle of selfinterest • People who take the good of oth ...
two-column Word document - Unitarian Universalist Association
... THE PROGRAM A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be a necessary good for the well-being of the people. — B.R. Ambedkar (1891-1956), Indian jurist, philosopher, writer, orator, and civil ...
... THE PROGRAM A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be a necessary good for the well-being of the people. — B.R. Ambedkar (1891-1956), Indian jurist, philosopher, writer, orator, and civil ...
Outline of Virtue Ethics encyclopedia article
... rationally sensitive to or perceptive about what is morally right in any given situation, and such practical wisdom is acquired as a result of parental training and accumulating life experiences. In addition, he holds that there is a unity to the virtues, that there cannot be conflict among them, s ...
... rationally sensitive to or perceptive about what is morally right in any given situation, and such practical wisdom is acquired as a result of parental training and accumulating life experiences. In addition, he holds that there is a unity to the virtues, that there cannot be conflict among them, s ...
Moral Beauty`s Divine Center: Jonathan Edwards
... of Protestants all claiming to be the true Church. In the process, much blood and treasure had been spilt trying to impose unity. It was hoped that a basis extending to all mankind regardless of religious faith would give a universal foundation for morality.6 Yet even in this attempt to find a new f ...
... of Protestants all claiming to be the true Church. In the process, much blood and treasure had been spilt trying to impose unity. It was hoped that a basis extending to all mankind regardless of religious faith would give a universal foundation for morality.6 Yet even in this attempt to find a new f ...
The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory
... drug use, family responsibilities, and professional ethics. Can war be just? Is euthanasia ever justifiable? This volume focuses, however, on questions that are more abstract than these. For example, what kinds of actions are right or wrong? These questions may seem far removed from concrete issues o ...
... drug use, family responsibilities, and professional ethics. Can war be just? Is euthanasia ever justifiable? This volume focuses, however, on questions that are more abstract than these. For example, what kinds of actions are right or wrong? These questions may seem far removed from concrete issues o ...
Rationalism, Sentimentalism, and Ralph Cudworth
... Part of the explanation for Cudworth’s not fitting squarely into the rationalist or sentimentalist camp is simply that at the time he was writing, the distinction had not yet been sharply formulated.4 But Cudworth also vacillated. In certain works, he implied that passion is the leading player in the ...
... Part of the explanation for Cudworth’s not fitting squarely into the rationalist or sentimentalist camp is simply that at the time he was writing, the distinction had not yet been sharply formulated.4 But Cudworth also vacillated. In certain works, he implied that passion is the leading player in the ...
How Autonomous Are Collective Agents? Corporate Rights and
... the existence of collective agents (see the irreducibility argument in section 2.1). Another reason is that over the years rather plausible conceptions of collective agency have been proposed that make it ...
... the existence of collective agents (see the irreducibility argument in section 2.1). Another reason is that over the years rather plausible conceptions of collective agency have been proposed that make it ...
HittIV - Michigan State University
... what we are calling end-result ethics. The principles form a coherent whole — they are clear, logical, and all of a piece. There are many devoted, enthusiastic supporters of this ethical system. But one can also find large numbers of antagonists who have serious reservations about the value and usef ...
... what we are calling end-result ethics. The principles form a coherent whole — they are clear, logical, and all of a piece. There are many devoted, enthusiastic supporters of this ethical system. But one can also find large numbers of antagonists who have serious reservations about the value and usef ...
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... Values are indicative of a sense of refinement and well being. The term value derives its origin from the self-reflective nature of human reason. It is humans alone who can transcend the animal instincts and have the knowledge of right and wrong, good and evil, ends and means etc.Morality or moral c ...
... Values are indicative of a sense of refinement and well being. The term value derives its origin from the self-reflective nature of human reason. It is humans alone who can transcend the animal instincts and have the knowledge of right and wrong, good and evil, ends and means etc.Morality or moral c ...
Beyond Evaluation Standards?
... recognizes what they can and cannot do. Secondly, they can never be applied in algorithmic fashion, but must always be interpreted in the evaluation ‘case’ at hand. And thirdly, they are, at least to some extent, shaped by cultural norms and understandings. It appears, as this article concludes, tha ...
... recognizes what they can and cannot do. Secondly, they can never be applied in algorithmic fashion, but must always be interpreted in the evaluation ‘case’ at hand. And thirdly, they are, at least to some extent, shaped by cultural norms and understandings. It appears, as this article concludes, tha ...
The inescapability of ethics and the impossibility of
... grounds that it asserts that reality either (a) is itself nothing more than a construction, or (b) can only be accessed indirectly through actively invented constructions. She sees both grounds as antirealist. The first ground («reality is just a construction») is antirealist because seeing reality ...
... grounds that it asserts that reality either (a) is itself nothing more than a construction, or (b) can only be accessed indirectly through actively invented constructions. She sees both grounds as antirealist. The first ground («reality is just a construction») is antirealist because seeing reality ...
Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, Second Edition
... many of its critical contributions to contemporary debates in moral philosophy.’ A. D. M. Walker, Journal of Applied Philosophy ‘Gaita’s book is very important and needs to be addressed.’ Michael McGee, The Philosophical Quarterly Raimond Gaita’s Good and Evil is one of the most important, original ...
... many of its critical contributions to contemporary debates in moral philosophy.’ A. D. M. Walker, Journal of Applied Philosophy ‘Gaita’s book is very important and needs to be addressed.’ Michael McGee, The Philosophical Quarterly Raimond Gaita’s Good and Evil is one of the most important, original ...
2. IntroEthics
... Explanations must be public so that they can be debated and understood by others. ...
... Explanations must be public so that they can be debated and understood by others. ...
Introduction to Ethics Chapter 2
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... Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Pearson Addison-Wesley ...
Slide 4- 2 - Computer and Information Science
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... Copyright © 2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Pearson Addison-Wesley ...
Towards a Code of Cyberethics
... but ethical content. Nevertheless, codes of conduct (such as a proposed Code of Cyberethics for eThekwini Municipality) can be extremely useful. By explicitly communicating corporate purposes regarding controversial matters (such as copying someone else's software for personal use) and by clarifyin ...
... but ethical content. Nevertheless, codes of conduct (such as a proposed Code of Cyberethics for eThekwini Municipality) can be extremely useful. By explicitly communicating corporate purposes regarding controversial matters (such as copying someone else's software for personal use) and by clarifyin ...
The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth about Morality
... it? Presumably not. If, somehow, the whole community were to decide that torturing cats is okay, this activity would, by the lights of most people, still be wrong. In answering these questions in the negative, one expresses an implicit theory concerning the metaphysics of morals. Moral claims, some ...
... it? Presumably not. If, somehow, the whole community were to decide that torturing cats is okay, this activity would, by the lights of most people, still be wrong. In answering these questions in the negative, one expresses an implicit theory concerning the metaphysics of morals. Moral claims, some ...
Ethical Dimensions in Responsible Professionalism
... Hunter (1991) identified two competing moral visions (orthodox and progressive) that relate to the two ethical systems (deontological and teleological) discussed. The orthodox view is a moral reasoning perspective that defines moral authority in terms of an external transcendent force; while the pro ...
... Hunter (1991) identified two competing moral visions (orthodox and progressive) that relate to the two ethical systems (deontological and teleological) discussed. The orthodox view is a moral reasoning perspective that defines moral authority in terms of an external transcendent force; while the pro ...