1 Are Empathy and Morality Linked? Insights from Moral Psychology
... results have shown that empathic responses can reduce the frequency of utilitarian judgments, such as when one decides to refrain from sacrificing the life of an innocent person with whom one strongly empathizes in order to save a larger number of innocent people (Crockett et al., 2010; Gleichgerrc ...
... results have shown that empathic responses can reduce the frequency of utilitarian judgments, such as when one decides to refrain from sacrificing the life of an innocent person with whom one strongly empathizes in order to save a larger number of innocent people (Crockett et al., 2010; Gleichgerrc ...
Consuming ethics: Articulating the subjects and spaces of ethical
... We want to outline an alternative conceptualisation of the relationships between consumption, commodification, and the dynamics of ethical action that can account for the variety of ways of being ethical and political which, we have suggested above, are not allowed for by existing approaches. Rather ...
... We want to outline an alternative conceptualisation of the relationships between consumption, commodification, and the dynamics of ethical action that can account for the variety of ways of being ethical and political which, we have suggested above, are not allowed for by existing approaches. Rather ...
1 Olga Poznjakova Kant`s Concept of Enlightenment: Individual and
... 1983: 31). Under the private use of reason Kant understands reasoning concerning matters of an ‘official’ character, and believes that its degree of freedom should be limited for reasons of compliance with the official order. So, Kant comes to the conclusion that for an enlightened state the private ...
... 1983: 31). Under the private use of reason Kant understands reasoning concerning matters of an ‘official’ character, and believes that its degree of freedom should be limited for reasons of compliance with the official order. So, Kant comes to the conclusion that for an enlightened state the private ...
HittIV - Michigan State University
... 3. It must have universality or general application to all humanity and yet be applicable in a practical way to particular individuals and situations. 4. It should be able to be taught and promulgated. 5. It must have the ability to resolve conflicts among human beings, duties, and obligations. As y ...
... 3. It must have universality or general application to all humanity and yet be applicable in a practical way to particular individuals and situations. 4. It should be able to be taught and promulgated. 5. It must have the ability to resolve conflicts among human beings, duties, and obligations. As y ...
Thesis edit2 - University of Tilburg
... This paper fuels the debate on the innateness of morality by testing four prominent notions on the moral domain: i) the morality versus convention nexus (c.f. Turiel, 1979), ii) the theory of the four moral domains (c.f. Haidt and Joseph, 2004), iii) the ‘big three’ ethics (c.f. Shweder, 2008) and i ...
... This paper fuels the debate on the innateness of morality by testing four prominent notions on the moral domain: i) the morality versus convention nexus (c.f. Turiel, 1979), ii) the theory of the four moral domains (c.f. Haidt and Joseph, 2004), iii) the ‘big three’ ethics (c.f. Shweder, 2008) and i ...
Justice, Order and Anarchy: The International Political Theory of
... caricatures of writers such as Hobbes, Rousseau and Kant that were used to justify an eternal (invariably Realist) wisdom of IR. This was accompanied by a more sophisticated historiography and sociology of the discipline5 that brought into question not only the autonomy of the ‘international’ but al ...
... caricatures of writers such as Hobbes, Rousseau and Kant that were used to justify an eternal (invariably Realist) wisdom of IR. This was accompanied by a more sophisticated historiography and sociology of the discipline5 that brought into question not only the autonomy of the ‘international’ but al ...
Ethical Decision Making by Individuals in Organizations: An Issue
... almost always present, although the costs of certain choices may be high. In sum, many decisions are moral decisions simply because they have a moral component. Second, a moral agent is a person who makes a moral decision, even though he or she may not recognize that moral issues are at stake. This ...
... almost always present, although the costs of certain choices may be high. In sum, many decisions are moral decisions simply because they have a moral component. Second, a moral agent is a person who makes a moral decision, even though he or she may not recognize that moral issues are at stake. This ...
1 Kantian Moral Psychology Michelle A. Schwarze Ph.D. Candidate
... speculative philosophy – for whom morality is “more properly felt than judg’d of” (Treatise of Human Nature III.I.2.1). For the Scots, moral worth (and moral approbation) is based on perception rather than reason. Kant claims, however, that moral worth is imbued in action only by our choice to act i ...
... speculative philosophy – for whom morality is “more properly felt than judg’d of” (Treatise of Human Nature III.I.2.1). For the Scots, moral worth (and moral approbation) is based on perception rather than reason. Kant claims, however, that moral worth is imbued in action only by our choice to act i ...
The inescapability of ethics and the impossibility of
... particular ways profits from an epistemological mode of construing. When construing epistemologically, what one knows is seen as a humanly created product of personal and social meaning-making processes worthy of attention in its own right. Despite the critics’ qualms, «anything goes» relativism nee ...
... particular ways profits from an epistemological mode of construing. When construing epistemologically, what one knows is seen as a humanly created product of personal and social meaning-making processes worthy of attention in its own right. Despite the critics’ qualms, «anything goes» relativism nee ...
When values and behavior conflict - USC Price School of Public Policy
... moral events in daily life, people were most likely to note their own moral deeds – and the immoral deeds of others (see also Graham, 2014, for discussion). Moral Weakness: When Values and Behavior Conflict Moral hypocrisy can also be operationalized as simple moral weakness, when people fail to liv ...
... moral events in daily life, people were most likely to note their own moral deeds – and the immoral deeds of others (see also Graham, 2014, for discussion). Moral Weakness: When Values and Behavior Conflict Moral hypocrisy can also be operationalized as simple moral weakness, when people fail to liv ...
final final final
... come to view public relations as a practice lacking morality seems to have become a concern for many of the theorists of the domain. Dealing with this subject, Kathy Fitzpatrick and Candace Gauthier suggest that the charges of unethical conduct against those working in public relations result, at le ...
... come to view public relations as a practice lacking morality seems to have become a concern for many of the theorists of the domain. Dealing with this subject, Kathy Fitzpatrick and Candace Gauthier suggest that the charges of unethical conduct against those working in public relations result, at le ...
On Three Defenses of Sentimentalism
... Therefore, “we give the same approbation to the same moral qualities in China as in England” (T 3.3.1.14). In Hume’s view, our moral sentiments rest on the unchangeable human nature, and they are universal. In several places, Smith refers to universal moral sentiments. For example, violent hunger “i ...
... Therefore, “we give the same approbation to the same moral qualities in China as in England” (T 3.3.1.14). In Hume’s view, our moral sentiments rest on the unchangeable human nature, and they are universal. In several places, Smith refers to universal moral sentiments. For example, violent hunger “i ...
Moral Rationalization and the Integration of
... behavior violates moral principles and therefore has yet to engage in moral rationalization. These situational factors that can conceal moral relevance include obedience, roles, deindividuation, routinization, norms, and the inaction of others. In addition, the specific context of evil organizations ...
... behavior violates moral principles and therefore has yet to engage in moral rationalization. These situational factors that can conceal moral relevance include obedience, roles, deindividuation, routinization, norms, and the inaction of others. In addition, the specific context of evil organizations ...
Moral Rationalization and the Integration of
... behavior violates moral principles and therefore has yet to engage in moral rationalization. These situational factors that can conceal moral relevance include obedience, roles, deindividuation, routinization, norms, and the inaction of others. In addition, the specific context of evil organizations ...
... behavior violates moral principles and therefore has yet to engage in moral rationalization. These situational factors that can conceal moral relevance include obedience, roles, deindividuation, routinization, norms, and the inaction of others. In addition, the specific context of evil organizations ...
Rightness and Responsibility
... between an agent’s sincere moral judgments and his or her motivations to action. First, a person might accept both the truth of some moral judgment and the normative significance of the judgment thus arrived at without intending to act accordingly. We might believe, for instance, that we are morally ...
... between an agent’s sincere moral judgments and his or her motivations to action. First, a person might accept both the truth of some moral judgment and the normative significance of the judgment thus arrived at without intending to act accordingly. We might believe, for instance, that we are morally ...
Unit 1: Introduction to Ethics
... concerns the systematic and rational consideration of human systems of belief. The process of asking and answering questions about belief systems is therefore fundamental to philosophical study – it is not sufficient merely to ‘learn’ the answers that have been proposed by other philosophers! The br ...
... concerns the systematic and rational consideration of human systems of belief. The process of asking and answering questions about belief systems is therefore fundamental to philosophical study – it is not sufficient merely to ‘learn’ the answers that have been proposed by other philosophers! The br ...
A Plea for Moral Deference
... every ordinary person. We can regiment this landscape by saying that there are no moral ‘experts’ (in it). All the same, it simply does not follow that there is nobody to whom one might defer about what morality requires one to do. To generate that further conclusion, even for a given point in time, ...
... every ordinary person. We can regiment this landscape by saying that there are no moral ‘experts’ (in it). All the same, it simply does not follow that there is nobody to whom one might defer about what morality requires one to do. To generate that further conclusion, even for a given point in time, ...
The dynamic moral self
... moral self-importance likely attend more chronically to their moral self-regard, and this brand of self-regard may have a greater impact on their global self-worth than it does for individuals who place less general importance on being moral. Individuals may also show stable differences in their ave ...
... moral self-importance likely attend more chronically to their moral self-regard, and this brand of self-regard may have a greater impact on their global self-worth than it does for individuals who place less general importance on being moral. Individuals may also show stable differences in their ave ...
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 ...
Relativism - Creighton University
... Rachels on Cultural Relativism Another argument for a connection between Mill’s ideas and the current relativism is rooted in Mill’s individualism. Extreme individualism fosters the view that each person’s beliefs and values are valid for him or her; there are no objective beliefs and values. Eac ...
... Rachels on Cultural Relativism Another argument for a connection between Mill’s ideas and the current relativism is rooted in Mill’s individualism. Extreme individualism fosters the view that each person’s beliefs and values are valid for him or her; there are no objective beliefs and values. Eac ...
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... Again evolutionary hedonism holds that there is gradually establishment of conduct in itself by reconciling individual and social interests. However Herbert Spencer confidently constructs a `Utopia’ where in the happiness of the individual and the interest of the society will perfectly coincide. The ...
... Again evolutionary hedonism holds that there is gradually establishment of conduct in itself by reconciling individual and social interests. However Herbert Spencer confidently constructs a `Utopia’ where in the happiness of the individual and the interest of the society will perfectly coincide. The ...
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... to offer or take bribes, coupled with evidence that some people do in fact offer or take bribes, makes bribery a Type II ethical problem. Type II ethical problems can be understood by recognizing that ethical behavior is influenced by individual and institutional factors. At the individual level, et ...
... to offer or take bribes, coupled with evidence that some people do in fact offer or take bribes, makes bribery a Type II ethical problem. Type II ethical problems can be understood by recognizing that ethical behavior is influenced by individual and institutional factors. At the individual level, et ...
Kant`s Categorical Imperatives
... •Like Kant, Karl Marx considered that as people are rational they are capable of making free choices and should be treated with respect, ends in their own right, not as means to a capitalist end. •People should collectively act as though they were a member of a law making kingdom of ends. Historical ...
... •Like Kant, Karl Marx considered that as people are rational they are capable of making free choices and should be treated with respect, ends in their own right, not as means to a capitalist end. •People should collectively act as though they were a member of a law making kingdom of ends. Historical ...
Moral Potency - Department of Accounting
... face of adversity and persevere through challenges. Moral potency is a psychological state that can be impacted by the context in which a leader is operating, as well as through developmental ...
... face of adversity and persevere through challenges. Moral potency is a psychological state that can be impacted by the context in which a leader is operating, as well as through developmental ...
Individual Liberty and Political Institutions
... which the ideal of liberalism is based. The liberal ideal of private autonomy specifies this norm with regard to the internal functioning of the private law society, i.e. within the context of a given framework of rules. In its more general interpretation, for which I use the term individual sovere ...
... which the ideal of liberalism is based. The liberal ideal of private autonomy specifies this norm with regard to the internal functioning of the private law society, i.e. within the context of a given framework of rules. In its more general interpretation, for which I use the term individual sovere ...