The Teaching of Happiness in Mainland China: in Light of Aristotle
... relation between happiness and achievement and/or sacrifice of self-interest? Based on both Aristotle’s and Marx’s views on these questions, the author argues that a comprehensive rather than a “correct” understanding of happiness should be taught to the students. Also, the author suggests that the ...
... relation between happiness and achievement and/or sacrifice of self-interest? Based on both Aristotle’s and Marx’s views on these questions, the author argues that a comprehensive rather than a “correct” understanding of happiness should be taught to the students. Also, the author suggests that the ...
The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth about Morality
... 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 of them anyway, are not merely subjective, dependent for their validity o ...
... 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 of them anyway, are not merely subjective, dependent for their validity o ...
Moral Beauty`s Divine Center: Jonathan Edwards
... pursuing this line of thinking were David Hume and Francis Hutcheson.8 Hutcheson’s work, Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, was especially influential, placing him at the forefront of the influential Scottish Enlightenment. In this work, Hutcheson argued for a natural sense ...
... pursuing this line of thinking were David Hume and Francis Hutcheson.8 Hutcheson’s work, Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, was especially influential, placing him at the forefront of the influential Scottish Enlightenment. In this work, Hutcheson argued for a natural sense ...
Moral Beauty as An Overriding Imperative in
... tensions exist between principles of moral goodness and moral rightness. Moral goodness (as I see it) focuses mainly on flourishing at an individual level (virtues such as self-love) while Moral rightness mainly aims at maintaining and promoting factors and conditions necessary for the orderly and p ...
... tensions exist between principles of moral goodness and moral rightness. Moral goodness (as I see it) focuses mainly on flourishing at an individual level (virtues such as self-love) while Moral rightness mainly aims at maintaining and promoting factors and conditions necessary for the orderly and p ...
BENNETT v. HALLIE
... • Bennett would answer the above question in the negative. • Bennett suggests sympathy should be developed as a safeguard against a badly formed conscience. ...
... • Bennett would answer the above question in the negative. • Bennett suggests sympathy should be developed as a safeguard against a badly formed conscience. ...
Outline of Virtue Ethics encyclopedia article
... that it plays a role in good caring relationships like that between a mother and a child. It asserts that the value of and in relationships is the primary or most fundamental ethical value and holds that the moral value of individual traits or actions has to be seen as derivative from the value of c ...
... that it plays a role in good caring relationships like that between a mother and a child. It asserts that the value of and in relationships is the primary or most fundamental ethical value and holds that the moral value of individual traits or actions has to be seen as derivative from the value of c ...
HittIV - Michigan State University
... at this job to put her handicapped child through college. Then we note that within her own selfbeing there may be happiness and pleasure — even during this backbreaking work. Yet it is incomprehensible to the observer. How does one go about measuring happiness, pleasure, and utility? During the time ...
... at this job to put her handicapped child through college. Then we note that within her own selfbeing there may be happiness and pleasure — even during this backbreaking work. Yet it is incomprehensible to the observer. How does one go about measuring happiness, pleasure, and utility? During the time ...
English 11: Hamlet`s Delay
... sacrifice and no choice appears clear are the ones deeply agonized over. The weighing of each sacrifice is such a struggle that the decision-maker incessantly delays the moment at which they will finally choose. In William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Hamlet, too, grapples with his options. He may eit ...
... sacrifice and no choice appears clear are the ones deeply agonized over. The weighing of each sacrifice is such a struggle that the decision-maker incessantly delays the moment at which they will finally choose. In William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Hamlet, too, grapples with his options. He may eit ...
“I believe this will become the standard in the field of biblical ethics
... storied philosopher Socrates declared, “We are discussing no small matter, but how we ought to live.”1 Indeed, the discussion of ethics is important, for on a daily basis humans are confronted with questions of right and wrong. In practice, when ethical encounters arise, individuals with the capacit ...
... storied philosopher Socrates declared, “We are discussing no small matter, but how we ought to live.”1 Indeed, the discussion of ethics is important, for on a daily basis humans are confronted with questions of right and wrong. In practice, when ethical encounters arise, individuals with the capacit ...
Why Emotivists Love Inconsistency
... speakers of English find the two above sets of sentences equally inconsistent in spite of the latter’s containing (A’) and (C’). The problem for emotivism, then, is to give an alternative explanation of intuitions about consequence and inconsistency, and to explain the nature and existence of variou ...
... speakers of English find the two above sets of sentences equally inconsistent in spite of the latter’s containing (A’) and (C’). The problem for emotivism, then, is to give an alternative explanation of intuitions about consequence and inconsistency, and to explain the nature and existence of variou ...
2 Booklet 2 Utilitarianism
... Examine ways in which Act and Rule Utilitarianism are incompatible with the traditional ethical teaching of one major world religion If any candidate only refers to Act OR Rule Utilitarianism then award a maximum of Level 5. Reasons why religious believers reject Act and Rule Utilitarianism: Many ...
... Examine ways in which Act and Rule Utilitarianism are incompatible with the traditional ethical teaching of one major world religion If any candidate only refers to Act OR Rule Utilitarianism then award a maximum of Level 5. Reasons why religious believers reject Act and Rule Utilitarianism: Many ...
From Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 6 (1985) - UNC
... consistency requirement, for instance, demands of a theory that it exhibit both logical and practical consistency. It will be met if and only if the theory is structured in such a way that it will not, even in principle, generate conflicting directives.5 As Mill argues, in order to secure consistenc ...
... consistency requirement, for instance, demands of a theory that it exhibit both logical and practical consistency. It will be met if and only if the theory is structured in such a way that it will not, even in principle, generate conflicting directives.5 As Mill argues, in order to secure consistenc ...
Ch. 5 Reading Guide
... e) Conscience is making decisions based on what feels right or acting on a hunch. f) Conscience is what the individual creates as his or her own moral rules. ...
... e) Conscience is making decisions based on what feels right or acting on a hunch. f) Conscience is what the individual creates as his or her own moral rules. ...
Egoism
... If training or conditioning is responsible for otherregarding desires or concerns, does that immediately show PE is false, or is there something to the idea that such are artificial? Does the mere existence of such other-regarding desires, who cares where they came from, invalidate PE? ...
... If training or conditioning is responsible for otherregarding desires or concerns, does that immediately show PE is false, or is there something to the idea that such are artificial? Does the mere existence of such other-regarding desires, who cares where they came from, invalidate PE? ...
Euthanasia
... Ethical view of Euthanasia Virtue Theory [I]f virtue theory is described as a moral right if the individual is acting in a manner which is in accordance with what a “good model citizen” would do then euthanasia can never be considered as the morally right thing to do. Aristotle also applied this co ...
... Ethical view of Euthanasia Virtue Theory [I]f virtue theory is described as a moral right if the individual is acting in a manner which is in accordance with what a “good model citizen” would do then euthanasia can never be considered as the morally right thing to do. Aristotle also applied this co ...
Egoism
... If training or conditioning is responsible for otherregarding desires or concerns, does that immediately show PE is false, or is there something to the idea that such are artificial? Does the mere existence of such other-regarding desires, who cares where they came from, invalidate PE? ...
... If training or conditioning is responsible for otherregarding desires or concerns, does that immediately show PE is false, or is there something to the idea that such are artificial? Does the mere existence of such other-regarding desires, who cares where they came from, invalidate PE? ...
Moral Responsibilities and Extreme Poverty: Rethinking Our Affluent
... which “we should simply look to see which principle or principles apply in a particular case, and if we find that more than one applies, we should weigh their respective strengths” (464, 466, 467). Miller calls this approach the “connection theory,” meaning that each of the four principles provides ...
... which “we should simply look to see which principle or principles apply in a particular case, and if we find that more than one applies, we should weigh their respective strengths” (464, 466, 467). Miller calls this approach the “connection theory,” meaning that each of the four principles provides ...
Ch 5 Reviewx - Loyola Blakefield
... a) Conscience is the creation of organized religions to help control people through guilt. b) Conscience is the leftover rules of childhood that we carry around in our subconscious. c) Conscience is an internal voice that lives inside us, dictating to us what we should do. d) Conscience is simply a ...
... a) Conscience is the creation of organized religions to help control people through guilt. b) Conscience is the leftover rules of childhood that we carry around in our subconscious. c) Conscience is an internal voice that lives inside us, dictating to us what we should do. d) Conscience is simply a ...
1 But What About the Animals? Cheshire Calhoun Abstract
... was a co-worker who faithfully served his handler, and in so doing, the U.S. And that invites-to use Cora Diamond’s words--“the extension to animals of modes of thinking characteristic of our responses to human beings” (Diamond 1978, 474). In Robby’s case, we extend to a dog our thinking about what ...
... was a co-worker who faithfully served his handler, and in so doing, the U.S. And that invites-to use Cora Diamond’s words--“the extension to animals of modes of thinking characteristic of our responses to human beings” (Diamond 1978, 474). In Robby’s case, we extend to a dog our thinking about what ...
KV Institute of Management and Information Studies BA7402
... Herbert Spencer, Plato, Thomas Garret, Woodrad, Wilson etc are as follows 1. Sacredness of means and ends: The first and most important principles of business ethics emphasize that the means and techniques adopted to serve the business ends must be sacred and pure.It means that a good end cannot be ...
... Herbert Spencer, Plato, Thomas Garret, Woodrad, Wilson etc are as follows 1. Sacredness of means and ends: The first and most important principles of business ethics emphasize that the means and techniques adopted to serve the business ends must be sacred and pure.It means that a good end cannot be ...
James Rachels, “Ethical Egoism”.
... a. Presents “common-sense morality”: although we should look after our own selfinterest, we also have a duty to care for others, especially if it’s at minimum cost to ourselves. b. Presents viewpoint of “Ethical Egoism”: we ought to look out only for what is in our own self-interest (i.e., no “natur ...
... a. Presents “common-sense morality”: although we should look after our own selfinterest, we also have a duty to care for others, especially if it’s at minimum cost to ourselves. b. Presents viewpoint of “Ethical Egoism”: we ought to look out only for what is in our own self-interest (i.e., no “natur ...
sample chapter
... Ethical relativism is the belief that it is acceptable for ethics and morality to differ among persons or societies. There are two types of ethical relativism: ethical subjectivism and cultural relativism (Brannigan & Boss, 2001). People who subscribe to a belief in ethical subjectivism believe “ind ...
... Ethical relativism is the belief that it is acceptable for ethics and morality to differ among persons or societies. There are two types of ethical relativism: ethical subjectivism and cultural relativism (Brannigan & Boss, 2001). People who subscribe to a belief in ethical subjectivism believe “ind ...
1 Are Empathy and Morality Linked? Insights from Moral Psychology
... Deontological theories assign a special role to duties (“deontology” refers to the study or science of duty, from the Ancient Greek deon = duty). Duties are actions that follow one or more principled rules. From this perspective, the rightness or wrongness of an action is not so much determined by t ...
... Deontological theories assign a special role to duties (“deontology” refers to the study or science of duty, from the Ancient Greek deon = duty). Duties are actions that follow one or more principled rules. From this perspective, the rightness or wrongness of an action is not so much determined by t ...
Unworkable Ethical Theories
... is morally right • Each person should focus exclusively on his or her self-interest • Morally right action is the action that provides self with maximum long-term benefit not instant gratification (misunderstanding of ethical egoism) ...
... is morally right • Each person should focus exclusively on his or her self-interest • Morally right action is the action that provides self with maximum long-term benefit not instant gratification (misunderstanding of ethical egoism) ...
On the Relationship of Ethics to Moral Law
... The violence I speak of is the consumptive existence of the self being-for itself. As the location of thought, the self becomes interiorized; it is formed by building barriers upon the ground of being. The formation of the self is marked by partitioning the world into the category ‘object’ and the s ...
... The violence I speak of is the consumptive existence of the self being-for itself. As the location of thought, the self becomes interiorized; it is formed by building barriers upon the ground of being. The formation of the self is marked by partitioning the world into the category ‘object’ and the s ...