FIRst-PeRson MoRALIty AnD tHe RoLe oF ConsCIenCe
... capture this specifically first-personal character of moral experience: this word is ‘conscience’. Conscience is perhaps no longer a fashionable word in philosophical language; nonetheless, we can say that morality depends on having conscience, in the precise sense of having a first-personal view on ...
... capture this specifically first-personal character of moral experience: this word is ‘conscience’. Conscience is perhaps no longer a fashionable word in philosophical language; nonetheless, we can say that morality depends on having conscience, in the precise sense of having a first-personal view on ...
Utilitarianism: objections
... However, the theory still implies that if it was very unlikely anyone would find out, then it would be right to torture children. But other people finding out isn’t what makes torturing children wrong. This thought expresses two possible objections. First, we can point out that the example shows tha ...
... However, the theory still implies that if it was very unlikely anyone would find out, then it would be right to torture children. But other people finding out isn’t what makes torturing children wrong. This thought expresses two possible objections. First, we can point out that the example shows tha ...
Chapter 9 Not Knowing Mar. `10 “Ignorance is the necessary
... bleed were occasioned by a blast that rendered me comatose (or dead), and that the world in which this is true is as much like the present one as is permitted by the conditions which brought about my bleeding nose. That would be a world as similar as could be except for what it took to bloody my no ...
... bleed were occasioned by a blast that rendered me comatose (or dead), and that the world in which this is true is as much like the present one as is permitted by the conditions which brought about my bleeding nose. That would be a world as similar as could be except for what it took to bloody my no ...
Moral functioning as mediated action
... respecting her human dignity by saying that, you know, if we continue living together for the next four years, we will really not be respecting each other at all by the time those four years are over, you know. And so, we should come to a different situation out of this effect. I guess that’s what I ...
... respecting her human dignity by saying that, you know, if we continue living together for the next four years, we will really not be respecting each other at all by the time those four years are over, you know. And so, we should come to a different situation out of this effect. I guess that’s what I ...
Introduction
... (b) Dependency Thesis: Whether or not it is right for an individual to act in a certain way depends on or is relative to the society to which he or she belongs ii) Argument for intercultural tolerance (anthropologist Melville Herskovits) (a) The argument 1. If morality is relative to its culture, th ...
... (b) Dependency Thesis: Whether or not it is right for an individual to act in a certain way depends on or is relative to the society to which he or she belongs ii) Argument for intercultural tolerance (anthropologist Melville Herskovits) (a) The argument 1. If morality is relative to its culture, th ...
Introduction
... (b) Dependency Thesis: Whether or not it is right for an individual to act in a certain way depends on or is relative to the society to which he or she belongs ii) Argument for intercultural tolerance (anthropologist Melville Herskovits) (a) The argument 1. If morality is relative to its culture, th ...
... (b) Dependency Thesis: Whether or not it is right for an individual to act in a certain way depends on or is relative to the society to which he or she belongs ii) Argument for intercultural tolerance (anthropologist Melville Herskovits) (a) The argument 1. If morality is relative to its culture, th ...
Dewey`s Aesthetics and Today`s Moral Education - Purdue e-Pubs
... and there are aesthetic dimensions to all of our experience. We human beings seek experience that reaches to some level of fulfillment. “The aesthetic is that which makes it possible for us to have relatively unified, coherent, meaningful, and consummated experiences. Therefore, the aesthetic is pre ...
... and there are aesthetic dimensions to all of our experience. We human beings seek experience that reaches to some level of fulfillment. “The aesthetic is that which makes it possible for us to have relatively unified, coherent, meaningful, and consummated experiences. Therefore, the aesthetic is pre ...
A Plea for Moral Deference
... who knows (when you do not) what the right thing for you to do is. You may accept such advice, and often you should accept it. More significantly, in the basic and most instructive version of the case, there is no good objection to your accepting it. In arguing for this conclusion, I not only declin ...
... who knows (when you do not) what the right thing for you to do is. You may accept such advice, and often you should accept it. More significantly, in the basic and most instructive version of the case, there is no good objection to your accepting it. In arguing for this conclusion, I not only declin ...
trandabat
... themselves, together, each other, jointly, both; ARGM-NEG is used for elements such as not, n’t, never, no longer; Only one core argument type is allowed for a specific predicate (only one Arg0 - Arg4); In general, if an argument satisfies two core roles, the highest available ranked argument label ...
... themselves, together, each other, jointly, both; ARGM-NEG is used for elements such as not, n’t, never, no longer; Only one core argument type is allowed for a specific predicate (only one Arg0 - Arg4); In general, if an argument satisfies two core roles, the highest available ranked argument label ...
The Role of Antagonism in Kant`s Metaphysic of
... unsuccessful” (“Theory” 89). As Kant insists, the fact that something has been unsuccessful does not justify that it will be also unsuccessful in the future. But this Kant’s proper insistence does not declare the irrelevance of empirical evidence to a theoretical claim. This paper examines why Kant ...
... unsuccessful” (“Theory” 89). As Kant insists, the fact that something has been unsuccessful does not justify that it will be also unsuccessful in the future. But this Kant’s proper insistence does not declare the irrelevance of empirical evidence to a theoretical claim. This paper examines why Kant ...
The Formula of the Universal Law
... apparently, his objection would be based on his formulation of the CI as the Formula of Humanity as End in Itself (FH): “Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.”5 Clear ...
... apparently, his objection would be based on his formulation of the CI as the Formula of Humanity as End in Itself (FH): “Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.”5 Clear ...
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. ...
Justification by Imagination
... we can assume so for the sake of this paper. The aim is to show that for imaginings to be voluntary in this sense is no obstacle to them being a source of justification. Prima facie, imaginings in the core sense are also under our voluntary control in the second sense. When I set myself to imagine a ...
... we can assume so for the sake of this paper. The aim is to show that for imaginings to be voluntary in this sense is no obstacle to them being a source of justification. Prima facie, imaginings in the core sense are also under our voluntary control in the second sense. When I set myself to imagine a ...
Is There Moral High Ground?
... traditional and familiar, sort of relativism. To see how this unfolds we’ll start by looking at the engaged character of moral language. Moral language is, for Timmons, engaged insofar as it always issues from a moral stance or a moral outlook. Correct assertibility is always taken from the point of ...
... traditional and familiar, sort of relativism. To see how this unfolds we’ll start by looking at the engaged character of moral language. Moral language is, for Timmons, engaged insofar as it always issues from a moral stance or a moral outlook. Correct assertibility is always taken from the point of ...
DOC - Princeton University
... rationality is a species of instrumental rationality, viz. instrumental rationality in the service of one's cognitive or epistemic goals. Call this way of thinking about epistemic rationality the instrumentalist conception of epistemic rationality. My primary concern in this paper is to explore the ...
... rationality is a species of instrumental rationality, viz. instrumental rationality in the service of one's cognitive or epistemic goals. Call this way of thinking about epistemic rationality the instrumentalist conception of epistemic rationality. My primary concern in this paper is to explore the ...
Sir William David Ross: (1877
... You are sitting with him and he asks you whether he will be all right (meaning that he won’t die but will get better). ...
... You are sitting with him and he asks you whether he will be all right (meaning that he won’t die but will get better). ...
Dr. Keith YN Ng
... – If ethical relativism were true then it would make little sense to criticize the practices of other societies so long as their practices conformed to their own standards • Eg. we cannot cay that:– Child slavery is wrong – Practice of apartheid in South Africa is wrong – German’s treatment of Jews ...
... – If ethical relativism were true then it would make little sense to criticize the practices of other societies so long as their practices conformed to their own standards • Eg. we cannot cay that:– Child slavery is wrong – Practice of apartheid in South Africa is wrong – German’s treatment of Jews ...
Objective Morality_final
... ought to φ. (I use “beliefs” here simply for shorthand. Those who prefer subjective “oughts” to be relativized to a different epistemic state – such as evidence, knowledge, evidence that has been idealized in some way, etc. – are free to make the necessary translations. Nothing in the argument of th ...
... ought to φ. (I use “beliefs” here simply for shorthand. Those who prefer subjective “oughts” to be relativized to a different epistemic state – such as evidence, knowledge, evidence that has been idealized in some way, etc. – are free to make the necessary translations. Nothing in the argument of th ...
Wittgensteinian Semantics
... 1979]). Anyhow, there is no non-linguistic set of conditions necessary and sufficient for falling underthe concept of being a word of Esperanto,but that does not make this a family resemblance concept; this is so even if we could never be in a position to give a complete enumerationof everything tha ...
... 1979]). Anyhow, there is no non-linguistic set of conditions necessary and sufficient for falling underthe concept of being a word of Esperanto,but that does not make this a family resemblance concept; this is so even if we could never be in a position to give a complete enumerationof everything tha ...
Good Will, Duty, and the Categorical Imperative
... • A good will is necessary to make sure that what Kant calls “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 a ...
... • A good will is necessary to make sure that what Kant calls “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 a ...
The goodness of pleasure: Epicurean ethics
... seems implausible claiming that some mental pleasures do not originate in the body rejects the Epicurean conception of pleasure if mental pleasures are greater than bodily pleasures, then mental pains are greater than bodily pains and the wise person will experience both ...
... seems implausible claiming that some mental pleasures do not originate in the body rejects the Epicurean conception of pleasure if mental pleasures are greater than bodily pleasures, then mental pains are greater than bodily pains and the wise person will experience both ...
Moral Inquiry - Blackwell Publishing
... them to the demands of social harmony or to the patterns of an underlying natural order. Such reflections may be called “moral philosophy.” By identifying principles on which practices rest, these reflections systematize prevailing expectations, and they also provide a basis for criticizing and revi ...
... them to the demands of social harmony or to the patterns of an underlying natural order. Such reflections may be called “moral philosophy.” By identifying principles on which practices rest, these reflections systematize prevailing expectations, and they also provide a basis for criticizing and revi ...
KAUSALITÄT UND MOTIVATION BEI EDITH STEIN
... If you say it is enough, you are lost”8. It is certainly true that in Husserl this principle has a reformist bias of Lutherean origin, although it does not reach the excesses of irredeemed prostration in the original sin, as in Luther and Kant, which would go against the moral eagerness of renovatio ...
... If you say it is enough, you are lost”8. It is certainly true that in Husserl this principle has a reformist bias of Lutherean origin, although it does not reach the excesses of irredeemed prostration in the original sin, as in Luther and Kant, which would go against the moral eagerness of renovatio ...
Ch 5 Reviewx - Loyola Blakefield
... _______________________ and the bishops. We cannot form a Christian conscience without the help, advice, and teaching of our Church ___________________ who want to guide us to ...
... _______________________ and the bishops. We cannot form a Christian conscience without the help, advice, and teaching of our Church ___________________ who want to guide us to ...