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... others. Compassion, courage, generosity, loyalty, and honesty are all examples of virtues. Virtue ethics goes hand in hand with other universal moral theories. ...
... others. Compassion, courage, generosity, loyalty, and honesty are all examples of virtues. Virtue ethics goes hand in hand with other universal moral theories. ...
On acts, omissions and responsibility
... usefully argue about these matters unless we are clear about what our arguments touch upon.2 Although it seems to have become received wisdom from ethicists of quite conflicting views that moral propriety can not hang merely on whether a situation obtains because of (inter alia) an agent’s action or ...
... usefully argue about these matters unless we are clear about what our arguments touch upon.2 Although it seems to have become received wisdom from ethicists of quite conflicting views that moral propriety can not hang merely on whether a situation obtains because of (inter alia) an agent’s action or ...
Dieter Birnbacher - Kultura i Wartości
... meaning of “morality” is identified with a certain type of morality or even with a particular morality held to be the only valid one. By defining morality in a highly specific way, this approach misses out on the plurality and diversity of moral systems. Ironically, the historically most influential ...
... meaning of “morality” is identified with a certain type of morality or even with a particular morality held to be the only valid one. By defining morality in a highly specific way, this approach misses out on the plurality and diversity of moral systems. Ironically, the historically most influential ...
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... peace and protecting political freedom – that could not be simultaneously held at the time the war was declared. What has been shown is that people of good will can come to have conflicting, even incommensurable values in such a context, and can also change their minds along with changes in circumst ...
... peace and protecting political freedom – that could not be simultaneously held at the time the war was declared. What has been shown is that people of good will can come to have conflicting, even incommensurable values in such a context, and can also change their minds along with changes in circumst ...
Moral realism - A Level Philosophy
... This contrast is unfair. There are lots of facts – for example, facts about being in love, or facts about music – that ‘depend’ on human beings and their activities (there would be no love if no one loved anything). But they are still facts, because they are independent of our judgements, and made t ...
... This contrast is unfair. There are lots of facts – for example, facts about being in love, or facts about music – that ‘depend’ on human beings and their activities (there would be no love if no one loved anything). But they are still facts, because they are independent of our judgements, and made t ...
Servais Pinckaers: Returning to a Thomisitc Morality of Happiness
... happiness. This type of happiness transcends the natural order because it originates in the ultimate Good, and yet one which does not destroy the autonomy of the moral personality, especially freedom. This particular insight is quite unique in the work of Aquinas, and it will change the whole struct ...
... happiness. This type of happiness transcends the natural order because it originates in the ultimate Good, and yet one which does not destroy the autonomy of the moral personality, especially freedom. This particular insight is quite unique in the work of Aquinas, and it will change the whole struct ...
"Nihilism" encyclopedia entry - Victoria University of Wellington
... Before leaving existential nihilism, something should be said about the relationship between nihilism and Dostoyevsky’s famous dictum (as voiced by the character Ivan Karamazov) that “if God is dead, then everything is permissible.” Advocates of nihilism seem drawn to this claim; opponents seem to f ...
... Before leaving existential nihilism, something should be said about the relationship between nihilism and Dostoyevsky’s famous dictum (as voiced by the character Ivan Karamazov) that “if God is dead, then everything is permissible.” Advocates of nihilism seem drawn to this claim; opponents seem to f ...
Street`s Evolutionary Debunking Argument: Nuancing A Moral
... I begin without the assumption that there are moral truths simply because this is not an argument, like Street’s, for the existence or non-existence of independent moral truths. And what is more, I can safely assume that moral truths have to do with the ends of moral individuals simply because this ...
... I begin without the assumption that there are moral truths simply because this is not an argument, like Street’s, for the existence or non-existence of independent moral truths. And what is more, I can safely assume that moral truths have to do with the ends of moral individuals simply because this ...
Moral Inquiry - Blackwell Publishing
... Kant and Nietzsche are two of the most important moral theorists in terms of their impact on religious thought, but they hardly exhaust the possibilities for moral theory. The study of moral theory in the West since the seventeenth century has produced a variety of competing accounts of the basic pr ...
... Kant and Nietzsche are two of the most important moral theorists in terms of their impact on religious thought, but they hardly exhaust the possibilities for moral theory. The study of moral theory in the West since the seventeenth century has produced a variety of competing accounts of the basic pr ...
Moral Absolutism: a Response to Relativists
... byproduct of cultural mores is contingent upon the belief that “individual acts are right or wrong depending on the nature of the society from which they emanate.”25 The Dependency Thesis argues that “right” and “wrong” are determined by the context in which they occur, rather than by the objective ...
... byproduct of cultural mores is contingent upon the belief that “individual acts are right or wrong depending on the nature of the society from which they emanate.”25 The Dependency Thesis argues that “right” and “wrong” are determined by the context in which they occur, rather than by the objective ...
The Impact of Moral Education on Religious Life
... This hadith clearly shows that moral virtues not only lead to the salvation of human but also the mundane life would not be improved without them. Good behavior is the most important virtue for religious leaders; this good trait has an important role in attracting hearts and closing to God and peopl ...
... This hadith clearly shows that moral virtues not only lead to the salvation of human but also the mundane life would not be improved without them. Good behavior is the most important virtue for religious leaders; this good trait has an important role in attracting hearts and closing to God and peopl ...
IMMANUEL KANT AND THE CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE
... view of Kant's epistemological Idealism, I believe that there is a substantial reason to accept the moral law. My view agrees somewhat with Kant's system which goes beyond the mere Immanent Purpose and Transcendentalist views. My view rests on Christian theism that suggests that we ought to postulat ...
... view of Kant's epistemological Idealism, I believe that there is a substantial reason to accept the moral law. My view agrees somewhat with Kant's system which goes beyond the mere Immanent Purpose and Transcendentalist views. My view rests on Christian theism that suggests that we ought to postulat ...
Ethical Relativism 2 Kinds of Relativism: ethical relativism and social
... Moral properties exist and cannot be reduced to non-moral natural ones. Moral properties like goodness are simple unanalyzable properties, like ‘yellow’. Moore: yellow / good. We have direct apprehension of simple moral properties like goodness by moral intuitions / moral sense. Intuitions are the b ...
... Moral properties exist and cannot be reduced to non-moral natural ones. Moral properties like goodness are simple unanalyzable properties, like ‘yellow’. Moore: yellow / good. We have direct apprehension of simple moral properties like goodness by moral intuitions / moral sense. Intuitions are the b ...
Diana Hoyos Valdés* Universidad de Caldas
... I. Some similarities and differences1 In “The Ethical Criticism of Art”, Berys Gaut defines his ethicism or moralism in these terms: Ethicism is the thesis that the ethical assessment of attitudes manifested by works of art is a legitimate aspect of the aesthetic evaluation of those works, such that ...
... I. Some similarities and differences1 In “The Ethical Criticism of Art”, Berys Gaut defines his ethicism or moralism in these terms: Ethicism is the thesis that the ethical assessment of attitudes manifested by works of art is a legitimate aspect of the aesthetic evaluation of those works, such that ...
MORALITY AND RELIGION IN AFRICAN THOUGHT
... pagan gods were ridiculed. According to Eboussi-Boulaga (Mudimbe 1988:51), the “language of derision” was complemented with a “language of refutation” which entailed a systematic reduction of so-called pagan religion as the opposite of the good, i.e. evil or Satan. The languages of derision and refu ...
... pagan gods were ridiculed. According to Eboussi-Boulaga (Mudimbe 1988:51), the “language of derision” was complemented with a “language of refutation” which entailed a systematic reduction of so-called pagan religion as the opposite of the good, i.e. evil or Satan. The languages of derision and refu ...
(Doesn`t) Make an Heroic Act?
... duty where most would be held back by fear, and a saintly act involves going beyond duty where most would be held back by self-interest. Thus, the quality of heroic and saintly acts seems to point us away form their consequences, and towards the people performing them. There is something morally pra ...
... duty where most would be held back by fear, and a saintly act involves going beyond duty where most would be held back by self-interest. Thus, the quality of heroic and saintly acts seems to point us away form their consequences, and towards the people performing them. There is something morally pra ...
Ethics – Handout 3 Ayer`s Emotivism
... can’t contradict each other, and we can’t reason about them, so why argue? Ayer argues that we stop engaging in such disputes once all matters of empirical fact have been settled. Does that seem right? And in any case, it still seems to us, even if we can’t settle our disputes about moral judgments, ...
... can’t contradict each other, and we can’t reason about them, so why argue? Ayer argues that we stop engaging in such disputes once all matters of empirical fact have been settled. Does that seem right? And in any case, it still seems to us, even if we can’t settle our disputes about moral judgments, ...
Ethics
... (1) Emotive theory: Hagerstrom; Ayel (2) Existentialism: Camus; Sartre 5. Recent arguments a. Linguistic philosophy: Hare b. The good-reason approach: Toulmin II. How to Moralize? A. Theory and Practice 1. Intellectual activities 2. Abstraction of practical action and concretion of theoretical thoug ...
... (1) Emotive theory: Hagerstrom; Ayel (2) Existentialism: Camus; Sartre 5. Recent arguments a. Linguistic philosophy: Hare b. The good-reason approach: Toulmin II. How to Moralize? A. Theory and Practice 1. Intellectual activities 2. Abstraction of practical action and concretion of theoretical thoug ...
When Soldiers Aren`t Heroes: An Essay
... lines until we are quite certain we’ll be able to remain there with sound moral convictions intact. If my argument is clear, we will be able to see yet another incoherence that is a part of our popular discourse. It is common to hear persons say that soldiers are “serving their country,” and quite o ...
... lines until we are quite certain we’ll be able to remain there with sound moral convictions intact. If my argument is clear, we will be able to see yet another incoherence that is a part of our popular discourse. It is common to hear persons say that soldiers are “serving their country,” and quite o ...
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Immanuel Kant and the moral law[1].
... derive from a moral law we ourselves legislate and that tells us to act in such a way that everyone could rationally agree to act — it sets universalisable principles. • The moral law, Kant holds, is not a requirement to do good to others. Rather, it tells us to act only in ways we could all rationa ...
... derive from a moral law we ourselves legislate and that tells us to act in such a way that everyone could rationally agree to act — it sets universalisable principles. • The moral law, Kant holds, is not a requirement to do good to others. Rather, it tells us to act only in ways we could all rationa ...
Biology and Society Unit Three: Ethics Branches of Philosophy
... able to control their behavior to the extent that they can follow a proscribed set of rules given to them by moral agents. The crucial difference is that moral followers, as opposed to moral agents, are unable to make moral decisions about novel moral problems not covered by the code of behavior in ...
... able to control their behavior to the extent that they can follow a proscribed set of rules given to them by moral agents. The crucial difference is that moral followers, as opposed to moral agents, are unable to make moral decisions about novel moral problems not covered by the code of behavior in ...
The Intercultural Ethics Agenda from an Objectivist Point of View
... Indeed, given our concepts, everyone could be mistaken about the shape of the world, which is the hallmark of objectivity. ...
... Indeed, given our concepts, everyone could be mistaken about the shape of the world, which is the hallmark of objectivity. ...
Introduction to Moral Heteronomy. History, Proposals, Arguments
... beings have the moral law in themselves, and make use of such a law whenever they reason about what is right and wrong. From an historical viewpoint, the rise of the autonomous theories of ethics to the international philosophical scene comes at the end of a long trajectory, whose point of departure ...
... beings have the moral law in themselves, and make use of such a law whenever they reason about what is right and wrong. From an historical viewpoint, the rise of the autonomous theories of ethics to the international philosophical scene comes at the end of a long trajectory, whose point of departure ...
Ethics & Nanotechnology Summer Bridge Program XXVI
... the greatest total amount of social benefit (“the greatest happiness of the greatest number”) ...
... the greatest total amount of social benefit (“the greatest happiness of the greatest number”) ...
Note - Cara Gillis
... o Tension: It seems like I must at least want everyone else to adopt this particular code as well, but for ethical egoism to work, I’d need to not judge others badly for failing to promote my self-interest instead of their own (even though I would like it if they did). ...
... o Tension: It seems like I must at least want everyone else to adopt this particular code as well, but for ethical egoism to work, I’d need to not judge others badly for failing to promote my self-interest instead of their own (even though I would like it if they did). ...
The Sovereignty of Good
The Sovereignty of Good is a book of moral philosophy by Iris Murdoch. First published in 1970, it comprises three previously published papers, all of which were originally delivered as lectures. Murdoch argued against the prevailing consensus in moral philosophy, proposing instead a Platonist approach. The Sovereignty of Good is Murdoch's best known philosophy book.