Readings in Cyberethics
... • History of cyberethics beginning with Norbert Weiner, 1940s • Unique moral issues? • Powerful technologies have profound social consequences ...
... • History of cyberethics beginning with Norbert Weiner, 1940s • Unique moral issues? • Powerful technologies have profound social consequences ...
Is Morality Natural?
... in these moral dilemmas. A study of individuals with damage to an area of the brain that links decisionmaking and emotion found that when faced with a series of moral dilemmas, these patients generally made the same moral judgments as most people. This suggests that emotions are not necessary for su ...
... in these moral dilemmas. A study of individuals with damage to an area of the brain that links decisionmaking and emotion found that when faced with a series of moral dilemmas, these patients generally made the same moral judgments as most people. This suggests that emotions are not necessary for su ...
Course curriculum - Wydział Prawa, Administracji i Ekonomii
... Acceptance of „a right to demand that another should lie for the sake of one’s own advantage”; from this follows „a claim that conflicts with all lawfulness”. „Whoever tells a lie, regardless of how good his intentions may be, must answer for the consequences resulting therefrom” By telling the untr ...
... Acceptance of „a right to demand that another should lie for the sake of one’s own advantage”; from this follows „a claim that conflicts with all lawfulness”. „Whoever tells a lie, regardless of how good his intentions may be, must answer for the consequences resulting therefrom” By telling the untr ...
THE NATURE OF MORALITY
... that your misdeed will come back to haunt you. This is often correct but sometimes just in terms of personal interest – it may pay off for you to do what you know to be wrong. ...
... that your misdeed will come back to haunt you. This is often correct but sometimes just in terms of personal interest – it may pay off for you to do what you know to be wrong. ...
Types of Ethical Theories
... The rightness/wrongness of an act does not depend upon the circumstances or its consequences. Some actions have the same moral valence regardless. b. Categorical imperative: act only upon that M which I as a rational agent can consistently will to be a universal law. You can’t consistently will to u ...
... The rightness/wrongness of an act does not depend upon the circumstances or its consequences. Some actions have the same moral valence regardless. b. Categorical imperative: act only upon that M which I as a rational agent can consistently will to be a universal law. You can’t consistently will to u ...
Basics of Ethics CS 215 ©Denbigh Starkey
... Metaethics studies whether there are underlying moralities which can be applied to any decisions, even if one’s personal opinion is different. For example someone might want to steal something or have extra-marital sex, but many moralities (but not all) would tell them that these are wrong. Normativ ...
... Metaethics studies whether there are underlying moralities which can be applied to any decisions, even if one’s personal opinion is different. For example someone might want to steal something or have extra-marital sex, but many moralities (but not all) would tell them that these are wrong. Normativ ...
... economic circumstances and religion. They exist irrespective of whether a person or a culture accepts them or acknowledges them. The objective existence of morality and moral principles is rooted in the holiness of God. Christians also consider that one can reason to justify or arrive at a moral sta ...
Principles of Morality Part II
... The best antidote to ethical lapses is to commit in advance to a set of ethical principles -- your personal ethical code. Your code defines your standards of right and wrong. It helps you resist temptation and becomes your basis for making ethically sensitive decisions. A personal code of ethics put ...
... The best antidote to ethical lapses is to commit in advance to a set of ethical principles -- your personal ethical code. Your code defines your standards of right and wrong. It helps you resist temptation and becomes your basis for making ethically sensitive decisions. A personal code of ethics put ...
Is there a Universal Ethic?
... 4. Non-arbitrary: not dependent merely on personal whim. 5. Unique: no other ethic can fit as the basis for proper governance. ...
... 4. Non-arbitrary: not dependent merely on personal whim. 5. Unique: no other ethic can fit as the basis for proper governance. ...
NAME: EMMANUEL EMMANUELA OLUWATOSIN. DEPARTMENT
... every part or aspects that deal with human conduct or the other. The good or right actions are moral and the bad or wrong actions are immoral. Ethics however helps humans to know human conducts or vices that are immoral or should be run away from or condemned. Metaethics, according to bodunrin is “t ...
... every part or aspects that deal with human conduct or the other. The good or right actions are moral and the bad or wrong actions are immoral. Ethics however helps humans to know human conducts or vices that are immoral or should be run away from or condemned. Metaethics, according to bodunrin is “t ...
Thinking Ethically: A Framework for Moral Decision Making
... will lead to the best overall consequences? 2) What moral rights do the affected parties have, and which course of action best respects those rights? 3) Which course of action treats everyone the same, except where there is a morally justifiable reason not to, and does not show favoritism or discrim ...
... will lead to the best overall consequences? 2) What moral rights do the affected parties have, and which course of action best respects those rights? 3) Which course of action treats everyone the same, except where there is a morally justifiable reason not to, and does not show favoritism or discrim ...
Beginning to Understand Ethics
... Ans: Cultural Relativism is the view that moral or ethical systems, which vary from culture to culture, are all equally valid and no one system is really “better” than any other. This is based on the idea that there is no ultimate standard of good or evil, so every judgment about right and wrong is ...
... Ans: Cultural Relativism is the view that moral or ethical systems, which vary from culture to culture, are all equally valid and no one system is really “better” than any other. This is based on the idea that there is no ultimate standard of good or evil, so every judgment about right and wrong is ...
Is Morality Relative or are There Universal Standards?
... • Individual acts are right or wrong depending on the nature of the society in which the occur. • Morality does not exist in a vacuum. • Morality must be seen in the context that depends on the wants, goals, beliefs, history, and environment of the society. ...
... • Individual acts are right or wrong depending on the nature of the society in which the occur. • Morality does not exist in a vacuum. • Morality must be seen in the context that depends on the wants, goals, beliefs, history, and environment of the society. ...
Moral Discourse
... Moral relativism asserts that no universal standard of morality is possible because different people have different beliefs about what is right and wrong. From this inference, relativists appear to further suggest that, in matters of morality, anything goes. But this principle of reasoning is proble ...
... Moral relativism asserts that no universal standard of morality is possible because different people have different beliefs about what is right and wrong. From this inference, relativists appear to further suggest that, in matters of morality, anything goes. But this principle of reasoning is proble ...
Ethical Relativism is Opposed to Absolutism.
... Individual acts are right or wrong depending on the nature of the society in which the occur. Morality does not exist in a vacuum. Morality must be seen in the context that depends on the wants, goals, beliefs, history, and environment of the society. ...
... Individual acts are right or wrong depending on the nature of the society in which the occur. Morality does not exist in a vacuum. Morality must be seen in the context that depends on the wants, goals, beliefs, history, and environment of the society. ...
Ethical problems with sacred texts
... It is also imperative that we refrain from projecting our contemporary ethical intuitions into the distant past. Bernard Williams pointed out that our ethical intuitions were not live options for ancient societies. We must cultivate sufficient humility to recognize that what we now perceive to be di ...
... It is also imperative that we refrain from projecting our contemporary ethical intuitions into the distant past. Bernard Williams pointed out that our ethical intuitions were not live options for ancient societies. We must cultivate sufficient humility to recognize that what we now perceive to be di ...
Introductory Lecture
... • If it’s illegal, is it immoral? • Not necessarily • Ethics provides the backdrop for law. In order for laws to be legitimate they must ultimately be ethically defensible. • Some legally prohibited things are clearly immoral (e.g., killing for fun), others only because the legal prohibition is broa ...
... • If it’s illegal, is it immoral? • Not necessarily • Ethics provides the backdrop for law. In order for laws to be legitimate they must ultimately be ethically defensible. • Some legally prohibited things are clearly immoral (e.g., killing for fun), others only because the legal prohibition is broa ...
Ethics for the Information Age
... followed by everyone, will lead to the greatest increase in total happiness Applies the principle of utility to moral rules instead of individual moral actions ...
... followed by everyone, will lead to the greatest increase in total happiness Applies the principle of utility to moral rules instead of individual moral actions ...
Buddhist Ethics
... to the modern social context lies in the fact that it offers a philosophical middle way that recognizes in principle the norms of scientific rationality, while rejecting both the extreme materialist world-view of modern science and the metaphysical and dogmatic fundamentalism of traditional religion ...
... to the modern social context lies in the fact that it offers a philosophical middle way that recognizes in principle the norms of scientific rationality, while rejecting both the extreme materialist world-view of modern science and the metaphysical and dogmatic fundamentalism of traditional religion ...
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... Moral values reside in performing good or right roles, in maintaining the convention order, and in pleasing others ...
... Moral values reside in performing good or right roles, in maintaining the convention order, and in pleasing others ...
The Terrain of Ethics
... 1.God commands us to do what is right, then: a) The actions are right because God commands them or b) God commands them because they are right. 2.If a) then, from moral perspective, God’s commands are arbitrary and the doctrine of goodness of God meaningless. 3.If b) then, admit standard of right a ...
... 1.God commands us to do what is right, then: a) The actions are right because God commands them or b) God commands them because they are right. 2.If a) then, from moral perspective, God’s commands are arbitrary and the doctrine of goodness of God meaningless. 3.If b) then, admit standard of right a ...