Moral Imagination and Adorno: Before and After Auschwitz
... activities, in this project I am going to focus primarily on imagination’s role in morality, most often referred to as moral imagination. While I explore the major contemporary theories of moral imagination, I also extend them to Critical Theorist Theodor Adorno, specifically his work on education a ...
... activities, in this project I am going to focus primarily on imagination’s role in morality, most often referred to as moral imagination. While I explore the major contemporary theories of moral imagination, I also extend them to Critical Theorist Theodor Adorno, specifically his work on education a ...
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 ...
WHAT WE CHOOSE: ETHICS FOR UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS A
... 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 rights activ ...
... 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 rights activ ...
two-column Word document - Unitarian Universalist Association
... We are regularly faced with moral choices, big and small. How should we respond to a tricky family or relationship situation? What is the right thing to do when faced with a dilemma at work? What is the most ethical course for a community, state, or nation to follow, and how much am I prepared to in ...
... We are regularly faced with moral choices, big and small. How should we respond to a tricky family or relationship situation? What is the right thing to do when faced with a dilemma at work? What is the most ethical course for a community, state, or nation to follow, and how much am I prepared to in ...
The Teaching of Happiness in Mainland China: in Light of Aristotle
... finally possess virtues. However, the Chinese government has never justified this argument that habituation of virtuous actions results in virtuous persons. In contrast, ...
... finally possess virtues. However, the Chinese government has never justified this argument that habituation of virtuous actions results in virtuous persons. In contrast, ...
Objective Morality_final
... blame must, of course, be mediated by a more specific theory of moral character and the appropriateness of blame, which I shall not offer here. Furthermore, I do not want to state the connection between these concepts too strongly. It is likely that any connection between virtuous decisionmaking, pr ...
... blame must, of course, be mediated by a more specific theory of moral character and the appropriateness of blame, which I shall not offer here. Furthermore, I do not want to state the connection between these concepts too strongly. It is likely that any connection between virtuous decisionmaking, pr ...
How Autonomous Are Collective Agents? Corporate Rights and
... to problematic normative statuses. In fact, it may well be that saving corporate responsibility by accepting the idea that collective agents can be autonomous agents requires giving up on normative individual ...
... to problematic normative statuses. In fact, it may well be that saving corporate responsibility by accepting the idea that collective agents can be autonomous agents requires giving up on normative individual ...
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 ...
Beyond Evaluation Standards?
... If standards are simply taken as rules to be met and the commitment is taken as given, the standard in question diminishes in nature and becomes an instruction as described above in point 2. Hubert L. Dreyfus had a thesis according to which following rules was the lowest level of a professional hier ...
... If standards are simply taken as rules to be met and the commitment is taken as given, the standard in question diminishes in nature and becomes an instruction as described above in point 2. Hubert L. Dreyfus had a thesis according to which following rules was the lowest level of a professional hier ...
Relative Ethics or Universal Ethics
... Major Premise: If judgments about right and wrong differ from culture to culture, then right and wrong are relative to culture, and there are no objective moral principles. Minor Premise: Judgments about right and wrong differ from culture to culture. Conclusion: Therefore, right and wrong differ fr ...
... Major Premise: If judgments about right and wrong differ from culture to culture, then right and wrong are relative to culture, and there are no objective moral principles. Minor Premise: Judgments about right and wrong differ from culture to culture. Conclusion: Therefore, right and wrong differ fr ...
The Moral Point of View in Hume, Kant and Mill Margaret Marie
... distance and time can make to our non-moral reactions. From the general point of view, it does not matter how close to or far from someone we are. We adopt a point of view where we ignore the features particular to us, in our particular circumstances. In general, all sentiments of blame or praise ar ...
... distance and time can make to our non-moral reactions. From the general point of view, it does not matter how close to or far from someone we are. We adopt a point of view where we ignore the features particular to us, in our particular circumstances. In general, all sentiments of blame or praise ar ...
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 ...
Moral Beauty as An Overriding Imperative in
... about moral principles and the nature of their imperativeness and the view that 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 ...
... about moral principles and the nature of their imperativeness and the view that 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 ...
Don`t Let it Happen Again: A Kantian Account of
... am by definition forgiving a person who has not made a full payment (material or otherwise) for his wrongdoing. And this often – if not always – means that when we forgive, we are promoting the happiness of a person who is not worthy of happiness. Now, of course, all of us are morally imperfect and ...
... am by definition forgiving a person who has not made a full payment (material or otherwise) for his wrongdoing. And this often – if not always – means that when we forgive, we are promoting the happiness of a person who is not worthy of happiness. Now, of course, all of us are morally imperfect and ...
Frankena, Chapter 4
... Hume When we praise any actions, we regard only the motives that produce them. The external performance has no merit..all virtuous actions derive their true merit only from virtuous motives. In other words, what is important is judgments about agents and their motives o ...
... Hume When we praise any actions, we regard only the motives that produce them. The external performance has no merit..all virtuous actions derive their true merit only from virtuous motives. In other words, what is important is judgments about agents and their motives o ...
Chapter 2
... scale. – All units must be the same in order to do the sum – In certain circumstances utilitarians must quantify the value of a human life ...
... scale. – All units must be the same in order to do the sum – In certain circumstances utilitarians must quantify the value of a human life ...
English 11: Hamlet`s Delay
... distinction” (167 McEachern) between Claudius and him. The duty of vengeance and the immorality of murder come into direct conflict, showing clearly that the two codes of honour cannot coexist and a choice must be made. Such is the decision Hamlet faces and his avoidance of the sacrifice of his mora ...
... distinction” (167 McEachern) between Claudius and him. The duty of vengeance and the immorality of murder come into direct conflict, showing clearly that the two codes of honour cannot coexist and a choice must be made. Such is the decision Hamlet faces and his avoidance of the sacrifice of his mora ...
Introduction to Ethics Chapter 2
... scale. – All units must be the same in order to do the sum – In certain circumstances utilitarians must quantify the value of a human life ...
... scale. – All units must be the same in order to do the sum – In certain circumstances utilitarians must quantify the value of a human life ...
Chapter 2
... scale. – All units must be the same in order to do the sum – In certain circumstances utilitarians must quantify the value of a human life ...
... scale. – All units must be the same in order to do the sum – In certain circumstances utilitarians must quantify the value of a human life ...
Credit Union Fraud & Ethics
... • Our employees are ethical so we don’t need an ethics policy • Ethics is better handled by philosophers and theologians than MBAs • An ethics policy is redundant – we all know that we should do what’s right! • Ethics is no more than good guys preaching to the bad guys www.loescherandassociates.com ...
... • Our employees are ethical so we don’t need an ethics policy • Ethics is better handled by philosophers and theologians than MBAs • An ethics policy is redundant – we all know that we should do what’s right! • Ethics is no more than good guys preaching to the bad guys www.loescherandassociates.com ...
Slide 4- 2 - Computer and Information Science
... Blurs distinction between doing what you think is right and doing what you want to do Makes no moral distinction between the actions of different people SR and tolerance are two different things Decisions may not be based on reason Not a workable ethical theory ...
... Blurs distinction between doing what you think is right and doing what you want to do Makes no moral distinction between the actions of different people SR and tolerance are two different things Decisions may not be based on reason Not a workable ethical theory ...
Kant`s Puzzling Ethics of Maxims
... are fully responsible for our actions and the principles from which they spring because they are freely chosen in this sense and can therefore be made to conform to the commands of reason. (For Kant, Reason and Nature seem to be the only factors that try to determine the will. There is no third one ...
... are fully responsible for our actions and the principles from which they spring because they are freely chosen in this sense and can therefore be made to conform to the commands of reason. (For Kant, Reason and Nature seem to be the only factors that try to determine the will. There is no third one ...
Why Emotivists Love Inconsistency
... Opinions to the effect that performing an act (of oneself or someone else) is morally wrong are moral optations for the act not to be performed. (This covers opinions to the effect that an act must not be performed, or that it is agent’s moral duty not to perform it.) Opinions to the effect that not ...
... Opinions to the effect that performing an act (of oneself or someone else) is morally wrong are moral optations for the act not to be performed. (This covers opinions to the effect that an act must not be performed, or that it is agent’s moral duty not to perform it.) Opinions to the effect that not ...
The Emptiness of the Moral Law
... annihilate itself, because the result would be that no one would make a de posit" (KpV 27/27). Hegel replies: But that there are no deposits - where is the contradiction in this? That there are no deposits would contradict other necessary determinacies, just as that a deposit is possible fits toget ...
... annihilate itself, because the result would be that no one would make a de posit" (KpV 27/27). Hegel replies: But that there are no deposits - where is the contradiction in this? That there are no deposits would contradict other necessary determinacies, just as that a deposit is possible fits toget ...
Moral Rationalism and Rational Amoralism
... relative to distinct features of the agent’s history, psychology, and epistemic or practical situation. When fully worked out, this package helps us to explain how rational people can have the wrong moral views. A second set of ideas interacts with those just described to handle a different sort of ...
... relative to distinct features of the agent’s history, psychology, and epistemic or practical situation. When fully worked out, this package helps us to explain how rational people can have the wrong moral views. A second set of ideas interacts with those just described to handle a different sort of ...
Consequentialism
Consequentialism is the class of normative ethical theories holding that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for any judgment about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct. Thus, from a consequentialist standpoint, a morally right act (or omission from acting) is one that will produce a good outcome, or consequence. In an extreme form, the idea of consequentialism is commonly encapsulated in the English saying, ""the ends justify the means"", meaning that if a goal is morally important enough, any method of achieving it is acceptable.Consequentialism is usually contrasted with deontological ethics (or deontology), in that deontology, in which rules and moral duty are central, derives the rightness or wrongness of one's conduct from the character of the behaviour itself rather than the outcomes of the conduct. It is also contrasted with virtue ethics, which focuses on the character of the agent rather than on the nature or consequences of the act (or omission) itself, and pragmatic ethics which treats morality like science: advancing socially over the course of many lifetimes, such that any moral criterion is subject to revision. Consequentialist theories differ in how they define moral goods.Some argue that consequentialist and deontological theories are not necessarily mutually exclusive. For example, T. M. Scanlon advances the idea that human rights, which are commonly considered a ""deontological"" concept, can only be justified with reference to the consequences of having those rights. Similarly, Robert Nozick argues for a theory that is mostly consequentialist, but incorporates inviolable ""side-constraints"" which restrict the sort of actions agents are permitted to do.