IMMANUEL KANT AND THE CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE
... why metaphysical postulations are independent of theoretical reason.(15) Whatever one's 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 Transcend ...
... why metaphysical postulations are independent of theoretical reason.(15) Whatever one's 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 Transcend ...
The Intercultural Ethics Agenda from an Objectivist Point of View
... producing agreement: Gert’s “common morality” + Rawls “reflective equilibrium” – Much disagreement that appears moral is not about fundamental moral principles at all: much disagreement involves disagreement about how to apply shared principles or disagreement about factual matters that condition ap ...
... producing agreement: Gert’s “common morality” + Rawls “reflective equilibrium” – Much disagreement that appears moral is not about fundamental moral principles at all: much disagreement involves disagreement about how to apply shared principles or disagreement about factual matters that condition ap ...
Moral Leadership
... Study of necessity, duty or obligation Moral worth is an intrinsic feature of human actions, determined by formal rules of conduct Moral obligation rests solely upon duty, without reference to the consequences. ...
... Study of necessity, duty or obligation Moral worth is an intrinsic feature of human actions, determined by formal rules of conduct Moral obligation rests solely upon duty, without reference to the consequences. ...
meta-ethics - WordPress.com
... is. Religious people may say that God exists because the majority of the world’s population believes in a god. Clearly this is not true. If the majority holds that capital punishment is wrong, that doesn’t make it wrong. • The appeal to a moral authority. Many people think that there is a moral auth ...
... is. Religious people may say that God exists because the majority of the world’s population believes in a god. Clearly this is not true. If the majority holds that capital punishment is wrong, that doesn’t make it wrong. • The appeal to a moral authority. Many people think that there is a moral auth ...
Ethical Relativism 2 Kinds of Relativism: ethical relativism and social
... What looks like moral disagreement is really just disagreement about natural facts, like what does serve the greatest happiness (a welfare state or a minimalist state) or what will promote gender or racial equality (e.g., affirmative action). The strategy is to transform moral questions into factual ...
... What looks like moral disagreement is really just disagreement about natural facts, like what does serve the greatest happiness (a welfare state or a minimalist state) or what will promote gender or racial equality (e.g., affirmative action). The strategy is to transform moral questions into factual ...
When Soldiers Aren`t Heroes: An Essay
... not address this necessary element of moral life in all the possible traditions that have informed and shaped contemporary American culture (which would, in fact, be all those of the Western tradition). But I can simply note that Aristotelianism and other agent-oriented ethics — Christian ethics, de ...
... not address this necessary element of moral life in all the possible traditions that have informed and shaped contemporary American culture (which would, in fact, be all those of the Western tradition). But I can simply note that Aristotelianism and other agent-oriented ethics — Christian ethics, de ...
Moral Enhancement - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
... causes of behavior allegedly undermines personal accountability But moral enhancement technologies make us even more responsible Did you take your pill? Using moral enhancement tech will be both motivated by social control and be an exercise in selfcontrol ...
... causes of behavior allegedly undermines personal accountability But moral enhancement technologies make us even more responsible Did you take your pill? Using moral enhancement tech will be both motivated by social control and be an exercise in selfcontrol ...
Chapter_3_Weston
... Moral values are those values that give voice to the needs and legitimate expectations of others as well as ourselves Ourselves and our needs are built into the definition of morality. However, your own needs cannot be the whole story. Contrary to the bumper sticker: “It is all about me, so deal wit ...
... Moral values are those values that give voice to the needs and legitimate expectations of others as well as ourselves Ourselves and our needs are built into the definition of morality. However, your own needs cannot be the whole story. Contrary to the bumper sticker: “It is all about me, so deal wit ...
The Ethic of Care and the Dialectic of Enlightenment
... Therefore, feminist philosophers criticize the dominant conception of morality as an absolute point of view from which arise abstract, objective moral rules that lead to just and right moral judgements and well-ordered societies, because in effect it amounts to a kind of a moral positivism which neg ...
... Therefore, feminist philosophers criticize the dominant conception of morality as an absolute point of view from which arise abstract, objective moral rules that lead to just and right moral judgements and well-ordered societies, because in effect it amounts to a kind of a moral positivism which neg ...
Relativism—Descriptive and Normative
... -- A “moral code” consists in the beliefs (whether true or false, reasonable or unreasonable, humane or barbaric) about right/wrong, good/bad, just/unjust, virtuous/vicious that are actually held by the majority of people in a culture, tribe, social group, or society. Different cultures/social group ...
... -- A “moral code” consists in the beliefs (whether true or false, reasonable or unreasonable, humane or barbaric) about right/wrong, good/bad, just/unjust, virtuous/vicious that are actually held by the majority of people in a culture, tribe, social group, or society. Different cultures/social group ...
What is Ethical Relativism?
... is more correct than another, I could just as easily adopt dogmatism as my overriding moral belief. Moreover, if relativism is true, why should I even bother to listen to another person’s moral beliefs, since by definition their beliefs cannot be better or more correct than my own beliefs? (See Bern ...
... is more correct than another, I could just as easily adopt dogmatism as my overriding moral belief. Moreover, if relativism is true, why should I even bother to listen to another person’s moral beliefs, since by definition their beliefs cannot be better or more correct than my own beliefs? (See Bern ...
Moral realism - A Level Philosophy
... anything). But they are still facts, because they are independent of our judgements, and made true by the way the world, in this case the human world, is. You can make mistakes about whether someone is in love or whether a piece of music is baroque or classical. This response is helpful, but values ...
... anything). But they are still facts, because they are independent of our judgements, and made true by the way the world, in this case the human world, is. You can make mistakes about whether someone is in love or whether a piece of music is baroque or classical. This response is helpful, but values ...
Introduction to Ethics Lecture 10 Ayer and Emotivism
... So Moral judgments are neither true nor false. So statements of value “are not in the literal sense significant, but are simply expressions of emotion which can be neither true nor false.” ...
... So Moral judgments are neither true nor false. So statements of value “are not in the literal sense significant, but are simply expressions of emotion which can be neither true nor false.” ...
Introduction to Ethics Lecture 10 Ayer and Emotivism
... Thus, if 2 people make contradictory ethical claims, since neither claim expresses a proposition neither do the two individuals express incompatible propositions. Thus, arguments aren’t possible. ...
... Thus, if 2 people make contradictory ethical claims, since neither claim expresses a proposition neither do the two individuals express incompatible propositions. Thus, arguments aren’t possible. ...
Reaching Disagreement
... composed of people with many different religious and cultural backgrounds and ethical outlooks – is how to reach disagreement. Some of the most challenging and controversial issues we face often turn on differences among us about fundamental values, differences that characterize a pluralistic societ ...
... composed of people with many different religious and cultural backgrounds and ethical outlooks – is how to reach disagreement. Some of the most challenging and controversial issues we face often turn on differences among us about fundamental values, differences that characterize a pluralistic societ ...
Alasdair MacIntyre on the Enlightenment Project
... between man-as-he-happens-to-be and man-as-he-could-be-if-herealized-his-essential-nature. Ethics is the science which is to enable men to understand how they make the transition from the former state to the latter. Ethics therefore on this view presupposes some telos. The precepts which enjoin the ...
... between man-as-he-happens-to-be and man-as-he-could-be-if-herealized-his-essential-nature. Ethics is the science which is to enable men to understand how they make the transition from the former state to the latter. Ethics therefore on this view presupposes some telos. The precepts which enjoin the ...
Document
... coherent and consistent truths in the way that one finds in the science or mathematics. Moral truths are real, but partial. Moreover, they are inescapably plural. There are many moral truths, not just one–and they may conflict with one another. ...
... coherent and consistent truths in the way that one finds in the science or mathematics. Moral truths are real, but partial. Moreover, they are inescapably plural. There are many moral truths, not just one–and they may conflict with one another. ...
PSYC 206 Lifespan Development
... Even if his wife is sick, it does not make his actions right.” OR “Heinz should steal the medicine because everyone has a right to choose life, regardless of the law.” ...
... Even if his wife is sick, it does not make his actions right.” OR “Heinz should steal the medicine because everyone has a right to choose life, regardless of the law.” ...
Class #10 - 5/14/12
... The Utilitarianism approach of Bentham and the greatest happiness principle is deeply flawed. “Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.” In response to Bentham, John Stuart Mill claims that happiness is an intellectual achievement, not merely pleasure. Mill argued that you cannot s ...
... The Utilitarianism approach of Bentham and the greatest happiness principle is deeply flawed. “Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.” In response to Bentham, John Stuart Mill claims that happiness is an intellectual achievement, not merely pleasure. Mill argued that you cannot s ...
it is the right thing to do.
... The Utilitarianism approach of Bentham and the greatest happiness principle is deeply flawed. “Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.” In response to Bentham, John Stuart Mill claims that happiness is an intellectual achievement, not merely pleasure. Mill argued that you cannot s ...
... The Utilitarianism approach of Bentham and the greatest happiness principle is deeply flawed. “Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.” In response to Bentham, John Stuart Mill claims that happiness is an intellectual achievement, not merely pleasure. Mill argued that you cannot s ...
Class #9 - 8/5/10
... egoism, but would say that when we do so, we may be acting unethically. • Note that Utilitarians are hard absolutists. • The principle of utility is sometimes referred to as the greatest happiness principle. • Utilitarianism is similar to but should be distinguished from the view held by Machiavelli ...
... egoism, but would say that when we do so, we may be acting unethically. • Note that Utilitarians are hard absolutists. • The principle of utility is sometimes referred to as the greatest happiness principle. • Utilitarianism is similar to but should be distinguished from the view held by Machiavelli ...
DOC - A Level Philosophy
... A final objection to the denial of moral truth is that it does not allow for the idea of moral progress. If there is no moral reality, then our moral beliefs or feelings cannot become better or worse. Obviously, they have changed – people used to believe that slavery was morally acceptable and now t ...
... A final objection to the denial of moral truth is that it does not allow for the idea of moral progress. If there is no moral reality, then our moral beliefs or feelings cannot become better or worse. Obviously, they have changed – people used to believe that slavery was morally acceptable and now t ...
Ethics - Handout 22 Susan Wolf, "Moral Saints"
... good means towards making a different in the world – take, for example, Bill Gates. (3) Is it good or bad for us to be moral saints? Moral heroes? Eudaimonistic ethics, held by Aristotle and Plato among others, suggests that true happiness consists in being as morally perfect as possible. And it doe ...
... good means towards making a different in the world – take, for example, Bill Gates. (3) Is it good or bad for us to be moral saints? Moral heroes? Eudaimonistic ethics, held by Aristotle and Plato among others, suggests that true happiness consists in being as morally perfect as possible. And it doe ...
The Moral Landscape
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values is a book by Sam Harris. In it, he promotes a science of morality and argues that many thinkers have long confused the relationship between morality, facts, and science. He aims to carve a third path between secularists who say morality is subjective (e.g. moral relativists), and religionists who say that morality is given by God and scripture. Harris contends that the only moral framework worth talking about is one where ""morally good"" things pertain to increases in the ""well-being of conscious creatures"". He then argues that, problems with philosophy of science and reason in general notwithstanding, 'moral questions' will have objectively right and wrong answers which are grounded in empirical facts about what causes people to flourish.Challenging the age-old philosophical notion that we can never get an 'ought' from an 'is', Harris argues that moral questions are best pursued using, not just philosophy, but the methods of science. Thus, ""science can determine human values"" translates to ""science can tell us which values lead to human flourishing"". It is in this sense that Harris advocates that scientists begin conversations about a normative science of ""morality"".