Consequentialism and our special relationship to self
... accurately, when morality requires these actions of us, it does not require them because they are best for us. Indeed, sometimes actions that do not benefit ourselves are morally praiseworthy or supererogatory, even when overall value would be impersonally maximized by our receiving the benefit. Sel ...
... accurately, when morality requires these actions of us, it does not require them because they are best for us. Indeed, sometimes actions that do not benefit ourselves are morally praiseworthy or supererogatory, even when overall value would be impersonally maximized by our receiving the benefit. Sel ...
Moral Reasoning - University of Idaho
... is the ability to systematically think through a moral problem taking into consideration one's own values and beliefs while weighing them against what others and society values and believes. ...
... is the ability to systematically think through a moral problem taking into consideration one's own values and beliefs while weighing them against what others and society values and believes. ...
Gatta_Santina_2015_research paper
... the happy state which is best and which acts rightly; and rightly it cannot act without doing right actions and neither individual nor state cannot do right actions without virtue and wisdom.” (Rackham 537) Aristotle proposes that through a particular education, one could become virtuous in accordan ...
... the happy state which is best and which acts rightly; and rightly it cannot act without doing right actions and neither individual nor state cannot do right actions without virtue and wisdom.” (Rackham 537) Aristotle proposes that through a particular education, one could become virtuous in accordan ...
Is There Moral High Ground?
... we must relativize truth. The only other option is to accept both ours and the Taliban’s claims and conclude that there are true moral contradictions: it is both true and not true that it is good to educate women. Pace dialethism, we should assume that true moral contradictions are untenable. We may ...
... we must relativize truth. The only other option is to accept both ours and the Taliban’s claims and conclude that there are true moral contradictions: it is both true and not true that it is good to educate women. Pace dialethism, we should assume that true moral contradictions are untenable. We may ...
Thesis edit2 - University of Tilburg
... and (iii). Certain violations, involving harm or not, e.g. disrespect to one’s boss, may not hold generally, nor be independent of authority, but do appeal to morality (Haidt & Joseph, 2004). Moreover, Japanese morality may be (and is) very different from American morality. Because the moral framewo ...
... and (iii). Certain violations, involving harm or not, e.g. disrespect to one’s boss, may not hold generally, nor be independent of authority, but do appeal to morality (Haidt & Joseph, 2004). Moreover, Japanese morality may be (and is) very different from American morality. Because the moral framewo ...
The nature of moral judgments and the extent of the moral domain
... been fitness-enhancing for our distant ancestors is, in essence, that throughout human evolutionary history there have been various evolutionary pressures favouring cooperative, helpful behaviour, and that moral judgements, in virtue of their “practical clout,” help motivate such behaviour. This is ...
... been fitness-enhancing for our distant ancestors is, in essence, that throughout human evolutionary history there have been various evolutionary pressures favouring cooperative, helpful behaviour, and that moral judgements, in virtue of their “practical clout,” help motivate such behaviour. This is ...
Good Will, Duty, and the Categorical Imperative
... “gifts of fortune,” such as wealth and power, do not lead us astray as moral beings. • Even things which are thought to be “good in many respects,” such as “self-control and calm deliberation,” “have no intrinsic unconditional value, but always presuppose a good will.” • Not only are such things not ...
... “gifts of fortune,” such as wealth and power, do not lead us astray as moral beings. • Even things which are thought to be “good in many respects,” such as “self-control and calm deliberation,” “have no intrinsic unconditional value, but always presuppose a good will.” • Not only are such things not ...
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 ...
Kantian Ethics
... Sovereignty of Reason By basing morality on reason we can guarantee that it is objective and its authority or sovereignty To deny 2+2=4 is just as irrational for Kant as lying. Rationalism even extends into our value judgements ...
... Sovereignty of Reason By basing morality on reason we can guarantee that it is objective and its authority or sovereignty To deny 2+2=4 is just as irrational for Kant as lying. Rationalism even extends into our value judgements ...
Euthanasia
... function of a human is to thrive and flourish in well being, then a morally good human would be one that is fulfilled. (Aristotle’s Moral Theory). Consented self-termination can not produce any enrichment in ones life or society… ...
... function of a human is to thrive and flourish in well being, then a morally good human would be one that is fulfilled. (Aristotle’s Moral Theory). Consented self-termination can not produce any enrichment in ones life or society… ...
Utilitarianism: objections
... Many of the things that we do to make people happy are aimed at specific other people, our family and friends. We do them favours, buy them presents, generally spend our time and money on them. But act utilitarianism argues that in our decisions, we need to consider the greatest happiness that our a ...
... Many of the things that we do to make people happy are aimed at specific other people, our family and friends. We do them favours, buy them presents, generally spend our time and money on them. But act utilitarianism argues that in our decisions, we need to consider the greatest happiness that our a ...
Kant`s Categorical Imperatives
... “Eichmann suddenly declared with great emphasis that he had lived his whole life according to Kant’s moral precepts, and especially according to a Kantian definition of duty… I meant by my remark about Kant that the principle of my will must always be such that it can become the principle of general ...
... “Eichmann suddenly declared with great emphasis that he had lived his whole life according to Kant’s moral precepts, and especially according to a Kantian definition of duty… I meant by my remark about Kant that the principle of my will must always be such that it can become the principle of general ...
The Formula of the Universal Law
... apply only to those agents who have certain desires. Moral imperatives are categorical, in the sense that their normative force is not dependent on the agent’s desires and that they obtain for every rational agent, no matter what he desires. Most importantly for Kant’s argument, categorical imperati ...
... apply only to those agents who have certain desires. Moral imperatives are categorical, in the sense that their normative force is not dependent on the agent’s desires and that they obtain for every rational agent, no matter what he desires. Most importantly for Kant’s argument, categorical imperati ...
Rightness and Responsibility
... case, then we can say that agents are necessarily motivated to act in accordance with moral requirements to the extent they are deliberating correctly and are otherwise practically rational. The condition of correct deliberation rules out cases in which an agent does not acknowledge the truth of mor ...
... case, then we can say that agents are necessarily motivated to act in accordance with moral requirements to the extent they are deliberating correctly and are otherwise practically rational. The condition of correct deliberation rules out cases in which an agent does not acknowledge the truth of mor ...
liberty university school of divinity a non-voluntarist theory
... to theology and apologetics in general, and the contemporary attempts to ground objective moral values and duties in particular. The topic relates to theology, since one’s response to the Euthyphro Dilemma can implicitly or explicitly speak to God’s moral sovereignty. The topic relates to apologetic ...
... to theology and apologetics in general, and the contemporary attempts to ground objective moral values and duties in particular. The topic relates to theology, since one’s response to the Euthyphro Dilemma can implicitly or explicitly speak to God’s moral sovereignty. The topic relates to apologetic ...
haidt.bjorklund.2008.. - Faculty Web Sites at the University of Virginia
... There are so many approaches to morality in modern psychology and philosophy, but there seems to be a general working consensus that morality is about protecting and/or helping individual human beings (and occasionally animals). Utilitarianism is based directly on the maximization of welfare across ...
... There are so many approaches to morality in modern psychology and philosophy, but there seems to be a general working consensus that morality is about protecting and/or helping individual human beings (and occasionally animals). Utilitarianism is based directly on the maximization of welfare across ...
how optional is morality
... ought to comply because it is socially demanded of us. But this is a mistake: I haven’t yet made any claims about the source of morality’s authority for us. Social pressures to be moral are not intrinsically moral motivations, which spring rather from the incorporation of morality into our personal ...
... ought to comply because it is socially demanded of us. But this is a mistake: I haven’t yet made any claims about the source of morality’s authority for us. Social pressures to be moral are not intrinsically moral motivations, which spring rather from the incorporation of morality into our personal ...
Document
... invasion of Iraq in 2003 could, after the fact, be deemed illegal but could also be deemed moral or even obligatory on different grounds One reason the U.N. was established after WWII was to keep despots like Hitler and Stalin from coming to power and reeking havoc on the world again; no longer a le ...
... invasion of Iraq in 2003 could, after the fact, be deemed illegal but could also be deemed moral or even obligatory on different grounds One reason the U.N. was established after WWII was to keep despots like Hitler and Stalin from coming to power and reeking havoc on the world again; no longer a le ...
Street`s Evolutionary Debunking Argument: Nuancing A Moral
... 3. If there is no limited set of moral propositions, then it is possible that a different set of moral truths could have applied to humans (and other moral beings). I begin without the assumption that there are moral truths simply because this is not an argument, like Street’s, for the existence or ...
... 3. If there is no limited set of moral propositions, then it is possible that a different set of moral truths could have applied to humans (and other moral beings). I begin without the assumption that there are moral truths simply because this is not an argument, like Street’s, for the existence or ...
Moral realism - A Level Philosophy
... Earth millions of years ago would be true whether anyone had found out about it or not. But it is more difficult to believe that values ‘exist’ quite independently of us and our talk about values. This contrast is unfair. There are lots of facts – for example, facts about being in love, or facts ab ...
... Earth millions of years ago would be true whether anyone had found out about it or not. But it is more difficult to believe that values ‘exist’ quite independently of us and our talk about values. This contrast is unfair. There are lots of facts – for example, facts about being in love, or facts ab ...
Dieter Birnbacher - Kultura i Wartości
... attention to the difference between the question what the features are of morality in general and what are the features of the right, valid or well-founded morality. The meaning of “morality” is identified with a certain type of morality or even with a particular morality held to be the only valid o ...
... attention to the difference between the question what the features are of morality in general and what are the features of the right, valid or well-founded morality. The meaning of “morality” is identified with a certain type of morality or even with a particular morality held to be the only valid o ...
AN ESSAY ON DIVINE COMMAND ETHICS A Dissertation by
... agents and a paradigm of moral goodness, then a sufficient prima facie case has been made that goodness is personal, unlike Platonic archetypes, and more like the traditional God of theism. The structure of the essay will be as follows. Given that no thought occurs in a historical vacuum chapter II ...
... agents and a paradigm of moral goodness, then a sufficient prima facie case has been made that goodness is personal, unlike Platonic archetypes, and more like the traditional God of theism. The structure of the essay will be as follows. Given that no thought occurs in a historical vacuum chapter II ...
boss1_ppt_ch_09
... (consequence-based ethics), deontology (duty-based ethics), rights-based ethics, and virtue ethics. ...
... (consequence-based ethics), deontology (duty-based ethics), rights-based ethics, and virtue ethics. ...
Metaethical Principles, Meta-Prescriptions, and Moral Theories
... moral theories. Second, if these principles are advanced as stating defining characteristics of morality, it seems they will do little damage to egoism (or any other theory). The egoist can agree that his view is not a moral one and claim instead that he is offering a competing theory of conduct. As ...
... moral theories. Second, if these principles are advanced as stating defining characteristics of morality, it seems they will do little damage to egoism (or any other theory). The egoist can agree that his view is not a moral one and claim instead that he is offering a competing theory of conduct. As ...