Framework for Thinking Ethically
... If our ethics are not based on feelings, religion, law, accepted social practice, or science, what are they based on? Many philosophers and ethicists have helped us answer this critical question. They have suggested at least five different sources of ethical standards we should use. Five Sources of ...
... If our ethics are not based on feelings, religion, law, accepted social practice, or science, what are they based on? Many philosophers and ethicists have helped us answer this critical question. They have suggested at least five different sources of ethical standards we should use. Five Sources of ...
(Doesn`t) Make an Heroic Act?
... certain kinds of actions – saintly and heroic – which have recognizable moral value, and yet cannot be included in the traditional threefold framework of action, which recognizes only obligatory, permissible, and impermissible acts. Saintly and heroic acts have positive moral worth – and so are not ...
... certain kinds of actions – saintly and heroic – which have recognizable moral value, and yet cannot be included in the traditional threefold framework of action, which recognizes only obligatory, permissible, and impermissible acts. Saintly and heroic acts have positive moral worth – and so are not ...
The Intercultural Ethics Agenda from an Objectivist Point of View
... Intersubjectivism and subjectivism cannot provide coherent motivation for normative project of pursuing agreement on moral principles. Can’t argue for agreement on moral grounds because there is no universal principle that agreement is morally good. Can’t argue for agreement on prudential grounds be ...
... Intersubjectivism and subjectivism cannot provide coherent motivation for normative project of pursuing agreement on moral principles. Can’t argue for agreement on moral grounds because there is no universal principle that agreement is morally good. Can’t argue for agreement on prudential grounds be ...
Duty Ethics
... These offices also try to foster an ethical culture within the corporate. Students should study ethics because they need to get sensitized to ethical issues before they are confronted with professional problems. Past experiences may help us to increase our sensitivity to ethical problems and show us ...
... These offices also try to foster an ethical culture within the corporate. Students should study ethics because they need to get sensitized to ethical issues before they are confronted with professional problems. Past experiences may help us to increase our sensitivity to ethical problems and show us ...
Ethical Systems
... is involved then that act will not account for your Good Will. • Kantian Ethics is straight to the point duty inspired. There is no other emotion that should be felt other then “I must do this because it is my duty.” ...
... is involved then that act will not account for your Good Will. • Kantian Ethics is straight to the point duty inspired. There is no other emotion that should be felt other then “I must do this because it is my duty.” ...
Ethics
... - Ethics and social equilibrium - Ethics and political control - Ethics and legal order - Ethics and educational mechanism - Ethics and ideological change - Ethics and economic development - Ethics and racial harmony - Ethics and religious tradition - Ethics and international relationship H. Four Pe ...
... - Ethics and social equilibrium - Ethics and political control - Ethics and legal order - Ethics and educational mechanism - Ethics and ideological change - Ethics and economic development - Ethics and racial harmony - Ethics and religious tradition - Ethics and international relationship H. Four Pe ...
Bioetica
... human freedoms. These principles might be primary intuitions, or they may be derived from a more general belief. Let’s imagine that they are derived from a more general beliefs. Let’s imagine also that this set of beliefs is represented by an ideal of human flourishing which consists in the possibil ...
... human freedoms. These principles might be primary intuitions, or they may be derived from a more general belief. Let’s imagine that they are derived from a more general beliefs. Let’s imagine also that this set of beliefs is represented by an ideal of human flourishing which consists in the possibil ...
Unworkable Ethical Theories
... Psychological egoism: We act in our own self-interest Ethical egoism: We ought to act in our own self-interest. It is morally right • Each person should focus exclusively on his or her self-interest • Morally right action is the action that provides self with maximum long-term benefit not instant gr ...
... Psychological egoism: We act in our own self-interest Ethical egoism: We ought to act in our own self-interest. It is morally right • Each person should focus exclusively on his or her self-interest • Morally right action is the action that provides self with maximum long-term benefit not instant gr ...
Personal and Organizational Ethics
... act that produces the greatest ratio of good to evil for everyone – Consequentialist theory ...
... act that produces the greatest ratio of good to evil for everyone – Consequentialist theory ...
I have not entirely agreed with him
... subjects to instrumental thinking and the treating of all actions as means. This is precisely how such “ordinary people” are capable of such evil. The state accomplishes its goals without disturbing the individual’s moral conscience, it is simply replaced with a new one. The third characteristic is ...
... subjects to instrumental thinking and the treating of all actions as means. This is precisely how such “ordinary people” are capable of such evil. The state accomplishes its goals without disturbing the individual’s moral conscience, it is simply replaced with a new one. The third characteristic is ...
From Ana and Mia With Love
... conception of his good, his plan of life, is worth carrying out.”13 The emphasis is not only on an individual’s ability to independently assess the many aspects of him/herself, but most importantly the value of his/her fundamental life commitments. As previously stated, the social bases of self-resp ...
... conception of his good, his plan of life, is worth carrying out.”13 The emphasis is not only on an individual’s ability to independently assess the many aspects of him/herself, but most importantly the value of his/her fundamental life commitments. As previously stated, the social bases of self-resp ...
Reflections on the Impact of Modernity in Evolving a Multi
... In his canonical piece, The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith argued that the division of labor and an economic viewpoint that saw labor as a commodity would increase the productivity of a society, thereby empowering the masses (Smith 1776). By increasing the efficiency of individual laborers and levera ...
... In his canonical piece, The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith argued that the division of labor and an economic viewpoint that saw labor as a commodity would increase the productivity of a society, thereby empowering the masses (Smith 1776). By increasing the efficiency of individual laborers and levera ...
Part II: There`s more to morality than harm and fairness Central
... school” in the United States. Winters are long and brutal, bookstores outnumber bars, and students wear T-shirts showing the university crest above phrases such as “Where Fun Goes to Die” and “Hell Does Freeze Over.” I arrived at the university on a September evening in 1992, unpacked my rental truc ...
... school” in the United States. Winters are long and brutal, bookstores outnumber bars, and students wear T-shirts showing the university crest above phrases such as “Where Fun Goes to Die” and “Hell Does Freeze Over.” I arrived at the university on a September evening in 1992, unpacked my rental truc ...
Ethics – Handout 8 Foot, “What Is Moral Relativism?”
... true-by-ancient-mexican-standards and false-by-our-standards. We should interpret MR as making the same kind of claim: we can’t emply two sets of standards in one breath. (8) Stace’s second claim: a relativist is committed to the conclusion that if someone things something is right, then it’s right ...
... true-by-ancient-mexican-standards and false-by-our-standards. We should interpret MR as making the same kind of claim: we can’t emply two sets of standards in one breath. (8) Stace’s second claim: a relativist is committed to the conclusion that if someone things something is right, then it’s right ...
Introduction to Moral Heteronomy. History, Proposals, Arguments
... The early rationalist agenda questioned such a voluntarist stance of the foundation of ethics, at least on some very natural readings of Spinoza’s and Leibniz’s texts. It is customary to sketch this position in terms of the conjunction of realism, innatism and necessitarianism towards the natural la ...
... The early rationalist agenda questioned such a voluntarist stance of the foundation of ethics, at least on some very natural readings of Spinoza’s and Leibniz’s texts. It is customary to sketch this position in terms of the conjunction of realism, innatism and necessitarianism towards the natural la ...
Overview of Five Ethical Decision-Making Models
... the history of its creators. For example, the first two (Koocher and Keith-Spiegel’s ninestep ethical decision-making model and The Canadian Psychological Association’s 10step ethical decision-making process) were designed by longtime leaders within APA and so are specifically designed for USA psych ...
... the history of its creators. For example, the first two (Koocher and Keith-Spiegel’s ninestep ethical decision-making model and The Canadian Psychological Association’s 10step ethical decision-making process) were designed by longtime leaders within APA and so are specifically designed for USA psych ...
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... SWFs originate in theoretical welfare economics; now used in optimal tax theory, public finance, environmental economics (including climate change), etc. Adler, Well-Being and Fair Distribution (2012); Adler and Fleurbaey, Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy (forthcoming), provide overvi ...
... SWFs originate in theoretical welfare economics; now used in optimal tax theory, public finance, environmental economics (including climate change), etc. Adler, Well-Being and Fair Distribution (2012); Adler and Fleurbaey, Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy (forthcoming), provide overvi ...
Meanings of methodological individualism
... Individualismus’. Schumpeter (1909) distilled some of the ideas in his 1908 text into an article published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. It is here that the term ‘methodological individualism’ first appears in an academic work in English.1 The term itself does not re-emerge in a large datab ...
... Individualismus’. Schumpeter (1909) distilled some of the ideas in his 1908 text into an article published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. It is here that the term ‘methodological individualism’ first appears in an academic work in English.1 The term itself does not re-emerge in a large datab ...
ETHICAL BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
... Ethical Behavior is based on the belief that one’s primary commitment is to advancement of long-term self- interest. The individualism view is supposed to promote honesty and integrity. But in business practice it may result in pecuniary ethic, or as the tendency to “push the law to its outer limits ...
... Ethical Behavior is based on the belief that one’s primary commitment is to advancement of long-term self- interest. The individualism view is supposed to promote honesty and integrity. But in business practice it may result in pecuniary ethic, or as the tendency to “push the law to its outer limits ...
A Critique of Personhood Author(s): S. F. Sapontzis Source: Ethics
... Having noted that "person" covers two concepts, one denoting a certain kind of thing and the other a certain status, the obvious question to ask is, What is the relation between these two concepts? The currently dominant humanist, egalitarian morality holds that the relation is one of identity: all ...
... Having noted that "person" covers two concepts, one denoting a certain kind of thing and the other a certain status, the obvious question to ask is, What is the relation between these two concepts? The currently dominant humanist, egalitarian morality holds that the relation is one of identity: all ...
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 ...
Why Ethics?
... Good ethics is good, but not always for business Ethics is the judge of what is done, not a means to secure an advantage. Even if one has the high moral ground, ethics dictates that it should be abandoned. Good ethics might be good for business, but that does not make business success its measure o ...
... Good ethics is good, but not always for business Ethics is the judge of what is done, not a means to secure an advantage. Even if one has the high moral ground, ethics dictates that it should be abandoned. Good ethics might be good for business, but that does not make business success its measure o ...
CHAPTER 1 - WHAT IS MORALITY
... conclusions based on those observations. Psychologists, for example, have claimed that human beings are basically selfish based on observations of conduct. This approach is descriptive in that it is ‘value-free’ making no judgments about the rightness or wrongness of the behavior. 2. A second approa ...
... conclusions based on those observations. Psychologists, for example, have claimed that human beings are basically selfish based on observations of conduct. This approach is descriptive in that it is ‘value-free’ making no judgments about the rightness or wrongness of the behavior. 2. A second approa ...