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 ...
Introduction to Moral Reasoning in Sport
... agent, self governance without coercion or manipulation by outside forces.. the moral agent must have alternatives, must choose, and is forced to act. ...
... agent, self governance without coercion or manipulation by outside forces.. the moral agent must have alternatives, must choose, and is forced to act. ...
(Routledge Contemporary Readings in Philosophy)
... complicated than that. We are all multicultural to some extent. Many social scientists oppose cultural relativism. The psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg,3 for example, claimed that people of all cultures go through roughly the same stages of moral thinking. Cultural relativism represents a relatively l ...
... complicated than that. We are all multicultural to some extent. Many social scientists oppose cultural relativism. The psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg,3 for example, claimed that people of all cultures go through roughly the same stages of moral thinking. Cultural relativism represents a relatively l ...
Moral Reasoning - University of Idaho
... manners...pertaining to character or disposition, considered as good or bad, virtuous or vicious. Or, to the distinction between right and wrong in relation to actions, volitions, or character of ...
... manners...pertaining to character or disposition, considered as good or bad, virtuous or vicious. Or, to the distinction between right and wrong in relation to actions, volitions, or character of ...
Gatta_Santina_2015_research paper
... as it did thousands of years ago. In the time of Aristotle, such letters written in Greek and circulating as written material in ancient Greece were considered valuable knowledge, which was special. Aristotle’s ethics is unclear on many counts. One idea is that doing things well need not require the ...
... as it did thousands of years ago. In the time of Aristotle, such letters written in Greek and circulating as written material in ancient Greece were considered valuable knowledge, which was special. Aristotle’s ethics is unclear on many counts. One idea is that doing things well need not require the ...
The Formula of the Universal Law
... Always treat humanity in your own person as an end, never as a mere means.13 Unlike the FH, this theory produces self-regarding imperatives only, but does not generate other-regarding duties. It is said that self-regarding imperatives (generated by the KPL) are based on “agent-relative” reasons, whi ...
... Always treat humanity in your own person as an end, never as a mere means.13 Unlike the FH, this theory produces self-regarding imperatives only, but does not generate other-regarding duties. It is said that self-regarding imperatives (generated by the KPL) are based on “agent-relative” reasons, whi ...
The Strategic Position Strategic Purpose
... that regulate right and wrong conduct Applied ethics: involves examining and analysing the ethical aspects of specific issues, e.g. medical ethics, business ethics ...
... that regulate right and wrong conduct Applied ethics: involves examining and analysing the ethical aspects of specific issues, e.g. medical ethics, business ethics ...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
... Popular use of the term ‘well-being’ usually relates to health. A doctor's surgery may run a ‘Women's Well-being Clinic’, for example. Philosophical use is broader, but related, and amounts to the notion of how well a person's life is going for that person. A person's well-being is what is ‘good for ...
... Popular use of the term ‘well-being’ usually relates to health. A doctor's surgery may run a ‘Women's Well-being Clinic’, for example. Philosophical use is broader, but related, and amounts to the notion of how well a person's life is going for that person. A person's well-being is what is ‘good for ...
Chapter 2—Normative Theories of Ethics MULTIPLE CHOICE 1
... b. we can predict with certainty the future consequences of our actions. c. an action that leads to unhappiness is morally right if any other action that you could have performed instead would have brought about even more unhappiness. d. an action can't be right if the people who are made happy by i ...
... b. we can predict with certainty the future consequences of our actions. c. an action that leads to unhappiness is morally right if any other action that you could have performed instead would have brought about even more unhappiness. d. an action can't be right if the people who are made happy by i ...
`Against Hirose`s Argument for Saving the Greater Number`
... and Z are equally good, let alone which one of them, if either, is better than the other. For they are different in respect to factors other than the identities of the people involved, i.e., the number of those who survive and those who do not. Therefore, X and Y, and Y and Z are incomparable. A dir ...
... and Z are equally good, let alone which one of them, if either, is better than the other. For they are different in respect to factors other than the identities of the people involved, i.e., the number of those who survive and those who do not. Therefore, X and Y, and Y and Z are incomparable. A dir ...
haidt.bjorklund.2008.. - Faculty Web Sites at the University of Virginia
... decision making. We quite agree. The SIM was designed to capture the phenomenology and causal processes of moral judgment, not moral decision making, because in our opinion those two processes are not closely related, functionally speaking. It may be parsimonious to suppose that there exists a singl ...
... decision making. We quite agree. The SIM was designed to capture the phenomenology and causal processes of moral judgment, not moral decision making, because in our opinion those two processes are not closely related, functionally speaking. It may be parsimonious to suppose that there exists a singl ...
Intuitive Methods of Moral Decision Making, A
... Emilian MIHAILOV Ethical theories aim to ground moral judgements or at least to make sense of the moral universe. Kant developed an a priori grounding of moral duties. What one ought to do is what can be willed by any rational being. A rule is moral if it can be willed as a universal law. Mill, on t ...
... Emilian MIHAILOV Ethical theories aim to ground moral judgements or at least to make sense of the moral universe. Kant developed an a priori grounding of moral duties. What one ought to do is what can be willed by any rational being. A rule is moral if it can be willed as a universal law. Mill, on t ...
Moral Demands and Ethical Theory: The Case of
... why the demandingness objection is typically considered as exclusively targeting consequentialism. Recall our original question: why is only consequentialism targeted in this way? It seems that other moral theories are comparably demanding. Take two popular alternatives to consequentialism. Deontolo ...
... why the demandingness objection is typically considered as exclusively targeting consequentialism. Recall our original question: why is only consequentialism targeted in this way? It seems that other moral theories are comparably demanding. Take two popular alternatives to consequentialism. Deontolo ...
Globalization versus Relativism: The Imperative of a Universal Ethics
... threatens the flourishing of unique and distinct cultures and must be checked if it can’t be stopped, and that valid universal moral principles does not exist as different people and cultures have different values, beliefs and truths, each of which may be regarded as valid. The above implication rai ...
... threatens the flourishing of unique and distinct cultures and must be checked if it can’t be stopped, and that valid universal moral principles does not exist as different people and cultures have different values, beliefs and truths, each of which may be regarded as valid. The above implication rai ...
This paper thus proposes that only moderate forms of
... chastity as insurance for a good marriage (A Ritual of Agony). Even though pain and bleeding are a matter of course in the practice, many women believe that it is worth going through it to uphold their cultural values. Appiah states that we cannot reach a consensus on how to rank and order such valu ...
... chastity as insurance for a good marriage (A Ritual of Agony). Even though pain and bleeding are a matter of course in the practice, many women believe that it is worth going through it to uphold their cultural values. Appiah states that we cannot reach a consensus on how to rank and order such valu ...
The inescapability of ethics and the impossibility of
... that the «relativism they wish to avoid is in fact avoided by their appeal to knowledge of something that is real, or independent of the knower, and because of this they cannot consistently hold even to the less radical form of antirealism» (p. 200). Held (1995, 1998) is claiming that mere acknowled ...
... that the «relativism they wish to avoid is in fact avoided by their appeal to knowledge of something that is real, or independent of the knower, and because of this they cannot consistently hold even to the less radical form of antirealism» (p. 200). Held (1995, 1998) is claiming that mere acknowled ...
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 ...
Socrates` Question
... there), something for which there is a large technical literature, could deliver what one might recognize as an answer to the basic questions of life? It is hard to see how this could be so, unless, as Socrates believed, the answer were one that the reader would recognize as one he might have given ...
... there), something for which there is a large technical literature, could deliver what one might recognize as an answer to the basic questions of life? It is hard to see how this could be so, unless, as Socrates believed, the answer were one that the reader would recognize as one he might have given ...
rethinkingdemandingness
... Philosophers disagree about whether and to what degree these counterintuitive results should count against a moral theory. Although some are prepared to accept that morality may be so demanding, many have explored versions of consequentialism that appear to rule with a lighter hand. One alternative, ...
... Philosophers disagree about whether and to what degree these counterintuitive results should count against a moral theory. Although some are prepared to accept that morality may be so demanding, many have explored versions of consequentialism that appear to rule with a lighter hand. One alternative, ...
Normative Ethics, Normative Epistemology, and Quine`s Holism
... independent course of observable nature, we can judge the morality of an act only by our moral standards themselves; adding that science \"thanks to its links with observation, retains some title to a correspondence theory of truth; but a coherence theory is evidently the lot of ethics\".15 However, ...
... independent course of observable nature, we can judge the morality of an act only by our moral standards themselves; adding that science \"thanks to its links with observation, retains some title to a correspondence theory of truth; but a coherence theory is evidently the lot of ethics\".15 However, ...
Personal Ethics and Fraudster Motivation: The Missing Link in Fraud
... prudence courage, temperance and justices. These are the so-called ethical values which help to establish and maintain the standards that delineate the “right” things to do and the things “worth doing” such ethical values influence individuals choice and lead to action which an individual support or ...
... prudence courage, temperance and justices. These are the so-called ethical values which help to establish and maintain the standards that delineate the “right” things to do and the things “worth doing” such ethical values influence individuals choice and lead to action which an individual support or ...
Motive Utilitarianism DRAFT - Gwen Bradford
... the world constant. Further, one must consider whether transition costs are also relevant: presumably if one does not currently have motives that would be optimal to have, there may be some disutility in cultivating these motives. Should this be counted against the overall utility of the motives, or ...
... the world constant. Further, one must consider whether transition costs are also relevant: presumably if one does not currently have motives that would be optimal to have, there may be some disutility in cultivating these motives. Should this be counted against the overall utility of the motives, or ...
Ethics bedfellows
... In first-order ethical inquiry one is trying to make up one’s mind about ethical matters. It is not uncommon to see ethicists proceed by directing their attention to cases and principles in order to elicit intuitions with substantive ethical content. So, for example, one directs attention to some t ...
... In first-order ethical inquiry one is trying to make up one’s mind about ethical matters. It is not uncommon to see ethicists proceed by directing their attention to cases and principles in order to elicit intuitions with substantive ethical content. So, for example, one directs attention to some t ...
Moral Leadership - Regent University
... behavioral handicap identified since the beginning of time? Can humanity claim she does not know what morality is? Is the relationship between knowing what is right from wrong not selfevident just like life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness? How does knowing what is right mediate or moderate mor ...
... behavioral handicap identified since the beginning of time? Can humanity claim she does not know what morality is? Is the relationship between knowing what is right from wrong not selfevident just like life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness? How does knowing what is right mediate or moderate mor ...