Powerpoint - John Provost
... clues to how to make important decisions, but they also both leave problems. What we really need is an ethics that incorporates both views, which is, in fact, what most of us do, whether we know it or not. ...
... clues to how to make important decisions, but they also both leave problems. What we really need is an ethics that incorporates both views, which is, in fact, what most of us do, whether we know it or not. ...
Mill
... alternatives available to you, produces the greatest net pleasure relative to pain. Consequentialism: The consequences determine what is right or wrong Hedonism: the only thing that is good for its own sake is pleasure. The only thing bad for its own sake is pain ...
... alternatives available to you, produces the greatest net pleasure relative to pain. Consequentialism: The consequences determine what is right or wrong Hedonism: the only thing that is good for its own sake is pleasure. The only thing bad for its own sake is pain ...
On the Relationship of Ethics to Moral Law
... foundation of ethics is perfect, but Levinas stops short of writing any sort of moral code based upon this foundation. This allows his ethics to remain unconditional, universal, and inviolate, but also results in its inability to inform ethical agent’s actions in the world. I attempt to determine th ...
... foundation of ethics is perfect, but Levinas stops short of writing any sort of moral code based upon this foundation. This allows his ethics to remain unconditional, universal, and inviolate, but also results in its inability to inform ethical agent’s actions in the world. I attempt to determine th ...
File - Tallis English & Philosophy
... • The logical positivist argument for emotivism is flawed: in particular, the claim that any meaningful proposition is either verifiable or tautologous is self-contradictory, hence inconsistent (key example: ‘the claim that…’ is not itself verifiable or tautologous…) • Emotivism can’t explain unemot ...
... • The logical positivist argument for emotivism is flawed: in particular, the claim that any meaningful proposition is either verifiable or tautologous is self-contradictory, hence inconsistent (key example: ‘the claim that…’ is not itself verifiable or tautologous…) • Emotivism can’t explain unemot ...
2 Booklet 2 Utilitarianism
... important, and only by loving another for their own sake can true community come into being. ...
... important, and only by loving another for their own sake can true community come into being. ...
File - Ethics and Society
... Dignity and respect According to the formula of humanity as an end in itself, it is necessary for us to respect a person’s dignity. It is wrong to treat persons as objects, i.e. as mere means (純粹手段) to our own ends. For Kant, it is not necessarily immoral to treat a person as a means as long as ...
... Dignity and respect According to the formula of humanity as an end in itself, it is necessary for us to respect a person’s dignity. It is wrong to treat persons as objects, i.e. as mere means (純粹手段) to our own ends. For Kant, it is not necessarily immoral to treat a person as a means as long as ...
CNA Code of Ethics
... safeguard personal, family and community information obtained in the context of a professional relationship. • 2. When nurses are conversing with persons receiving care, they take reasonable measures to prevent confidential information in the conversation from being overheard. • 3. Nurses collect, u ...
... safeguard personal, family and community information obtained in the context of a professional relationship. • 2. When nurses are conversing with persons receiving care, they take reasonable measures to prevent confidential information in the conversation from being overheard. • 3. Nurses collect, u ...
YAKIN DOĞU ÜNİVERSİTESİ DIŞA AÇIK DERSLER
... why ethics must always be of great concern to every engineer, be it in the information field or other engineering fields. This course challenges the student into thinking philosophically about how ethics affects the technical decisions and engineering design and reflecting upon the familiar devices ...
... why ethics must always be of great concern to every engineer, be it in the information field or other engineering fields. This course challenges the student into thinking philosophically about how ethics affects the technical decisions and engineering design and reflecting upon the familiar devices ...
Kerns Relativism and Essentialism
... Almost everyone who thinks about it will probably find that they are already in one of the two camps, even if they haven’t fully defined it that way for themselves, and even if they haven’t thought about the matter very consciously. What we will want to do here is just identify what each of these tw ...
... Almost everyone who thinks about it will probably find that they are already in one of the two camps, even if they haven’t fully defined it that way for themselves, and even if they haven’t thought about the matter very consciously. What we will want to do here is just identify what each of these tw ...
Curriculum Vitae - Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
... Project summary What can moral philosophers hope to learn from the sciences of the mind? Recent work on the disorders of autism and psychopathy, has promised to reshape a longstanding philosophical debate between Kantians and Humeans on the role of empathy (sympathy) in moral thinking. This project ...
... Project summary What can moral philosophers hope to learn from the sciences of the mind? Recent work on the disorders of autism and psychopathy, has promised to reshape a longstanding philosophical debate between Kantians and Humeans on the role of empathy (sympathy) in moral thinking. This project ...
What is Fundamental Moral Theology? Lecture Dr. Thomas B
... Mortimer, b) “Modern Roman Catholic Moral Theology” by Charles Curran, and c) “Counter-Reformation Moral Theology” by Curran; and Gula’s Reason Informed by Faith pages 8-9] The manuals of moral theology used to train confessors after the Council of Trent (15451563) were divided into three volumes; 1 ...
... Mortimer, b) “Modern Roman Catholic Moral Theology” by Charles Curran, and c) “Counter-Reformation Moral Theology” by Curran; and Gula’s Reason Informed by Faith pages 8-9] The manuals of moral theology used to train confessors after the Council of Trent (15451563) were divided into three volumes; 1 ...
Utilitarianism
... “In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility. To do as you would be done by, and to love your neighbor as yourself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.” Utility is NOT a “godless” doctrine. “If it be a true belief that God desi ...
... “In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility. To do as you would be done by, and to love your neighbor as yourself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.” Utility is NOT a “godless” doctrine. “If it be a true belief that God desi ...
Ethics—The Basics by John Mizzoni
... Aquinas and NLE address the problem of relativism: – If everyone has the same natural law written on their hearts, why do we see diverse ethics? – Everyone has the same moral law available to them, but things get complicated in daily life, and our judgment can become clouded, especially by bad habit ...
... Aquinas and NLE address the problem of relativism: – If everyone has the same natural law written on their hearts, why do we see diverse ethics? – Everyone has the same moral law available to them, but things get complicated in daily life, and our judgment can become clouded, especially by bad habit ...
Legitimacy of ethical norm and (dis)continuity of pedagogy of
... The biggest discrepancy to the first question can be found between Kant and Rousseau on one side and Hume on the other side. While first two authors try to prove that rationality is the ultimate founding of human ethical agency (categorical imperative in Kant’s philosophy and human soul, will, and ...
... The biggest discrepancy to the first question can be found between Kant and Rousseau on one side and Hume on the other side. While first two authors try to prove that rationality is the ultimate founding of human ethical agency (categorical imperative in Kant’s philosophy and human soul, will, and ...
Any Absolutes? Absolutely!
... what is morally right for me. And what is right for me may be wrong for another and vice versa. This theory is morally unacceptable because it implies that an act can be right for someone even if it is cruel, hateful, or tyrannical. Further, if this theory were put in practice, society would be rend ...
... what is morally right for me. And what is right for me may be wrong for another and vice versa. This theory is morally unacceptable because it implies that an act can be right for someone even if it is cruel, hateful, or tyrannical. Further, if this theory were put in practice, society would be rend ...
Business Ethics for Pharma and Device Companies
... This phenomenon is not necessarily intentional, but it can have significant consequences. ...
... This phenomenon is not necessarily intentional, but it can have significant consequences. ...
traditional ethics and the maintenance of social order in the nigerian
... incest, cruelty or doing harm in any way to other people. Goodness of character does not, of course, consist in avoiding vices alone; it also (and more importantly) involves the cultivation of virtues, such as kindness, generousity, hospitality, justice, respect for elders, obedience to legitimate a ...
... incest, cruelty or doing harm in any way to other people. Goodness of character does not, of course, consist in avoiding vices alone; it also (and more importantly) involves the cultivation of virtues, such as kindness, generousity, hospitality, justice, respect for elders, obedience to legitimate a ...
Normative Principles and Practical Ethics: A Response to O`Neill
... latter). Whereas empirical and descriptive work aims to ascertain or to explain the truth about some matter, normative work, by contrast, is neither explanatory nor interpretive. It is prescriptive: normative theories hold that aspects of the world should be changed to fit certain descriptions and p ...
... latter). Whereas empirical and descriptive work aims to ascertain or to explain the truth about some matter, normative work, by contrast, is neither explanatory nor interpretive. It is prescriptive: normative theories hold that aspects of the world should be changed to fit certain descriptions and p ...
CONFUCIUS AND KANT OR THE ETHICS OF DUTY
... progressive process which, if it cannot reach its goal in this world, it will continue in the other world, through our eternal personality in that world, so that we must admit the immortality of the soul as a „consoling hope”. Kant considered that morals should not resort to the idea of the supreme ...
... progressive process which, if it cannot reach its goal in this world, it will continue in the other world, through our eternal personality in that world, so that we must admit the immortality of the soul as a „consoling hope”. Kant considered that morals should not resort to the idea of the supreme ...
Document
... • The tendency to lie is common amongst criminals – why should it extend to politicians, corporate directors, advertisers … Who wants that! • Traditional moral rules, absolutes, are inadequate. • Throughout history, ruling classes have toyed with moral rules and laws to maintain power. ...
... • The tendency to lie is common amongst criminals – why should it extend to politicians, corporate directors, advertisers … Who wants that! • Traditional moral rules, absolutes, are inadequate. • Throughout history, ruling classes have toyed with moral rules and laws to maintain power. ...
The Coleridge Circle: Virtue Ethics, Sympathy, and Outrage
... agent. Such ethicists frequently note that we face the existential crunch of decision-making from time to time only, but how we lead our daily lives and what kind of human beings we become are questions always with us. Our virtues are deepseated predispositions that manifest themselves everyday over ...
... agent. Such ethicists frequently note that we face the existential crunch of decision-making from time to time only, but how we lead our daily lives and what kind of human beings we become are questions always with us. Our virtues are deepseated predispositions that manifest themselves everyday over ...
2525022k9 - Ursula Stange
... infanticide is thought to be morally acceptable. • In other societies, such as our own, infanticide is thought to be morally odious -------------------------------------------------------------------------• Therefore, infanticide is neither objectively right nor objectively wrong: It is merely a mat ...
... infanticide is thought to be morally acceptable. • In other societies, such as our own, infanticide is thought to be morally odious -------------------------------------------------------------------------• Therefore, infanticide is neither objectively right nor objectively wrong: It is merely a mat ...
Morality and Justice Final Paper
... provide an answer to this question on how we should live. Immanuel Kant simply believed that there is a single fundamental principle of morality in which all moral duties are based. He calls this the categorical imperative, or the moral law. In his moral theory, he discusses two uses of the categori ...
... provide an answer to this question on how we should live. Immanuel Kant simply believed that there is a single fundamental principle of morality in which all moral duties are based. He calls this the categorical imperative, or the moral law. In his moral theory, he discusses two uses of the categori ...
Ethical theorists: A comparison of main ideas
... to be rational, the highest form of happiness is based on rational behaviour Be moderate in all things ...
... to be rational, the highest form of happiness is based on rational behaviour Be moderate in all things ...
Ethical Pluralism as a Framework for Discussing Moral Disagreement
... sketching out a middle ground between absolutism and relativism. In teaching, I have been interested in exploring ways in which we visualize knowledge. ©Lawrence M. Hinman ...
... sketching out a middle ground between absolutism and relativism. In teaching, I have been interested in exploring ways in which we visualize knowledge. ©Lawrence M. Hinman ...