Moral Imagination and Adorno: Before and After Auschwitz
... deliberate about morality: when you view moral harm and help in terms of accounting, you think that there is a finite amount of it, just as there’s a finite amount of other resources, and you become unlikely to help others so that you don’t deplete your ‘moral reserves.’ Thinking of morality in term ...
... deliberate about morality: when you view moral harm and help in terms of accounting, you think that there is a finite amount of it, just as there’s a finite amount of other resources, and you become unlikely to help others so that you don’t deplete your ‘moral reserves.’ Thinking of morality in term ...
The Teaching of Happiness in Mainland China: in Light of Aristotle
... interpretations and principles of happiness, the Marxist view of happiness, are taught as irrefutable truth to students. Questioning such truths is not encouraged or even allowed by the Chinese government. As a result, these fundamental questions regarding happiness have not been fully discussed, or ...
... interpretations and principles of happiness, the Marxist view of happiness, are taught as irrefutable truth to students. Questioning such truths is not encouraged or even allowed by the Chinese government. As a result, these fundamental questions regarding happiness have not been fully discussed, or ...
The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth about Morality
... behavior, but if you’re an ordinary moralist you don’t think that your having these attitudes is what makes this behavior wrong. Is this behavior wrong because the community to which you belong dislikes, disapproves of, or prohibits it? Presumably not. If, somehow, the whole community were to decide ...
... behavior, but if you’re an ordinary moralist you don’t think that your having these attitudes is what makes this behavior wrong. Is this behavior wrong because the community to which you belong dislikes, disapproves of, or prohibits it? Presumably not. If, somehow, the whole community were to decide ...
An Internalist Dilemma - University of Colorado Boulder
... We saw earlier that strong internalism seems able to explain our linguistic intuitions as regards moral language and motivation, but that it is too strong since it cannot account for cases where there connection between moral judgments and motivation is defeated. Now, it might be suspected that weak ...
... We saw earlier that strong internalism seems able to explain our linguistic intuitions as regards moral language and motivation, but that it is too strong since it cannot account for cases where there connection between moral judgments and motivation is defeated. Now, it might be suspected that weak ...
WHAT WE CHOOSE: ETHICS FOR UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS A
... Participants examine how they have arrived at ethical positions that they hold dear. They explore new perspectives, identify areas for further questions and exploration, and perhaps more fully embrace ethical positions they reach through careful discernment. This program will deepen and expand parti ...
... Participants examine how they have arrived at ethical positions that they hold dear. They explore new perspectives, identify areas for further questions and exploration, and perhaps more fully embrace ethical positions they reach through careful discernment. This program will deepen and expand parti ...
two-column Word document - Unitarian Universalist Association
... positions that they hold dear. They explore new perspectives, identify areas for further questions and exploration, and perhaps more fully embrace ethical positions they reach through careful discernment. This program will deepen and expand participants' knowledge and skills for a process of ethical ...
... positions that they hold dear. They explore new perspectives, identify areas for further questions and exploration, and perhaps more fully embrace ethical positions they reach through careful discernment. This program will deepen and expand participants' knowledge and skills for a process of ethical ...
Moral Beauty as An Overriding Imperative in
... apprehending the aesthetics of these moral laws. Through ritualistic, spiritual and educational practices, Confucius wants to develop his ability to apprehend and experience of moral aesthetics. Through these endeavors, he could cultivate that ...
... apprehending the aesthetics of these moral laws. Through ritualistic, spiritual and educational practices, Confucius wants to develop his ability to apprehend and experience of moral aesthetics. Through these endeavors, he could cultivate that ...
Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions
... different? Actually, another kind of answer you might give, viz., a reliabilist or consequentialist type answer, e.g., Punishing people for accidentally and non negligently causing harm does not reliably increase the amount of good in the world. But of course this is now at least partly an empirical ...
... different? Actually, another kind of answer you might give, viz., a reliabilist or consequentialist type answer, e.g., Punishing people for accidentally and non negligently causing harm does not reliably increase the amount of good in the world. But of course this is now at least partly an empirical ...
The Moral Point of View in Hume, Kant and Mill Margaret Marie
... view in Hume’s system will lead to conflicts with passages in which he denies the role of reason in morality. I will argue that these conflicts can be resolved by attending to a distinction between moral reactions and moral judgments. Reason has a proper place in moral judgment, but it does not play ...
... view in Hume’s system will lead to conflicts with passages in which he denies the role of reason in morality. I will argue that these conflicts can be resolved by attending to a distinction between moral reactions and moral judgments. Reason has a proper place in moral judgment, but it does not play ...
Chapter 4 The Moral Conscience
... (a) It is ignorance of the moral law that is not the fault of the person acting, because he has no reasonable way to know the truth. (b) One who acts with invincible ignorance does not sin if he has taken the necessary and reasonable steps to learn what he is permitted and prohibited. iii) Conscienc ...
... (a) It is ignorance of the moral law that is not the fault of the person acting, because he has no reasonable way to know the truth. (b) One who acts with invincible ignorance does not sin if he has taken the necessary and reasonable steps to learn what he is permitted and prohibited. iii) Conscienc ...
The Strategic Position Strategic Purpose
... The main principles (in most of them Kant’s principles apply) 1 The business firm should consider the interests of all the affected stakeholders in any decision it makes. 2 The firm should have those affected by the firm’s rules and policies participate in the determination of those rules and polic ...
... The main principles (in most of them Kant’s principles apply) 1 The business firm should consider the interests of all the affected stakeholders in any decision it makes. 2 The firm should have those affected by the firm’s rules and policies participate in the determination of those rules and polic ...
BENNETT v. HALLIE
... even though he did terrible things, he is more moral than Edwards because Edwards lacked sympathy. – Edwards may have been without compassion, and Himmler may have had some compassion, but Himmler was actually responsible for the deaths, torture, and suffering of millions of innocent people. ...
... even though he did terrible things, he is more moral than Edwards because Edwards lacked sympathy. – Edwards may have been without compassion, and Himmler may have had some compassion, but Himmler was actually responsible for the deaths, torture, and suffering of millions of innocent people. ...
Ethics—The Basics by John Mizzoni
... • Ethical standards come from a combination of human nature and society. (Societal standards that contradict human nature would not lead to human happiness.) ...
... • Ethical standards come from a combination of human nature and society. (Societal standards that contradict human nature would not lead to human happiness.) ...
Chapter 2
... doesn’t mean they ought to have different views • Doesn’t explain how moral guidelines are determined • Doesn’t explain how guidelines evolve • Provides no way out for cultures in conflict • Because many practices are acceptable does not mean any cultural practice is acceptable (many/any fallacy) • ...
... doesn’t mean they ought to have different views • Doesn’t explain how moral guidelines are determined • Doesn’t explain how guidelines evolve • Provides no way out for cultures in conflict • Because many practices are acceptable does not mean any cultural practice is acceptable (many/any fallacy) • ...
Beyond Evaluation Standards?
... For most people in the evaluation community today the issue of evaluation standards is no longer ‘hot’ news. It is however the current authors’ opinion that the need remains for a critical analysis of current evaluation standards. What then are we talking about when discussing the ethics of evaluati ...
... For most people in the evaluation community today the issue of evaluation standards is no longer ‘hot’ news. It is however the current authors’ opinion that the need remains for a critical analysis of current evaluation standards. What then are we talking about when discussing the ethics of evaluati ...
The inescapability of ethics and the impossibility of
... realists (Noaparast, 1995; Noaparast & Khosravi, 2006; Stevens, 1998). Returning to ontology and epistemology as modes of construing, constructivists – in the spirit of Vaihinger’s (1952) philosophy – act «as if» the world is real whenever they construe ontologically. There is nothing inconsistent a ...
... realists (Noaparast, 1995; Noaparast & Khosravi, 2006; Stevens, 1998). Returning to ontology and epistemology as modes of construing, constructivists – in the spirit of Vaihinger’s (1952) philosophy – act «as if» the world is real whenever they construe ontologically. There is nothing inconsistent a ...
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 ...
Slide 4- 2 - Computer and Information Science
... doesn’t mean they ought to have different views Doesn’t explain how moral guidelines are determined Doesn’t explain how guidelines evolve Provides no way out for cultures in conflict Because many practices are acceptable does not mean any cultural practice is acceptable (many/any fallacy) Societies ...
... doesn’t mean they ought to have different views Doesn’t explain how moral guidelines are determined Doesn’t explain how guidelines evolve Provides no way out for cultures in conflict Because many practices are acceptable does not mean any cultural practice is acceptable (many/any fallacy) Societies ...
Chapter 2
... doesn’t mean they ought to have different views • Doesn’t explain how moral guidelines are determined • Doesn’t explain how guidelines evolve • Provides no way out for cultures in conflict • Because many practices are acceptable does not mean any cultural practice is acceptable (many/any fallacy) • ...
... doesn’t mean they ought to have different views • Doesn’t explain how moral guidelines are determined • Doesn’t explain how guidelines evolve • Provides no way out for cultures in conflict • Because many practices are acceptable does not mean any cultural practice is acceptable (many/any fallacy) • ...
Introduction to Ethics Chapter 2
... doesn’t mean they ought to have different views • Doesn’t explain how moral guidelines are determined • Doesn’t explain how guidelines evolve • Provides no way out for cultures in conflict • Because many practices are acceptable does not mean any cultural practice is acceptable (many/any fallacy) • ...
... doesn’t mean they ought to have different views • Doesn’t explain how moral guidelines are determined • Doesn’t explain how guidelines evolve • Provides no way out for cultures in conflict • Because many practices are acceptable does not mean any cultural practice is acceptable (many/any fallacy) • ...
Relativism - Creighton University
... Gertrude Himmelfarb argues that Mill, by making truth dependent on falsity (false ideas are useful for keeping true ones alive and for finding good reasons for the true ones), tends to make truth and falsity ...
... Gertrude Himmelfarb argues that Mill, by making truth dependent on falsity (false ideas are useful for keeping true ones alive and for finding good reasons for the true ones), tends to make truth and falsity ...
LaNdscaPe ethIcs a moral commitment to responsible regional
... and moral patient, which would prevent the existence of obligations towards beings that were not also moral agents and reciprocal parties to the contract as a moral underpinning. In this respect, Taylor (1986) tries to distinguish between the material conditions of human ethics and those governing e ...
... and moral patient, which would prevent the existence of obligations towards beings that were not also moral agents and reciprocal parties to the contract as a moral underpinning. In this respect, Taylor (1986) tries to distinguish between the material conditions of human ethics and those governing e ...
Enhancing Moral Conformity and Enhancing Moral Worth
... poverty. It is also increasingly recognised that many of history’s greatest atrocities—ranging from the First World War to the Final Solution to the Cultural Revolution—were made possible by the ordinary moral failures of ordinary people [1–3]. It is plausible that we have reasons to correct our mor ...
... poverty. It is also increasingly recognised that many of history’s greatest atrocities—ranging from the First World War to the Final Solution to the Cultural Revolution—were made possible by the ordinary moral failures of ordinary people [1–3]. It is plausible that we have reasons to correct our mor ...
Kant`s Puzzling Ethics of Maxims
... what we will instrumentally as a mere means. I must intend this or that to put my maxim into practice, but the means intended are not thereby included in my maxim. Means d o not matter, ends do; maxims specify the ends of actions. On the other hand, rules, which according to § 1 of the Critique of P ...
... what we will instrumentally as a mere means. I must intend this or that to put my maxim into practice, but the means intended are not thereby included in my maxim. Means d o not matter, ends do; maxims specify the ends of actions. On the other hand, rules, which according to § 1 of the Critique of P ...