Consequentialism and our special relationship to self
... and becomes more forceful, when our special relationship to self is fully in view. But for now, we must note that ordinary moral thought also recognizes a self-abnegating option, i.e., an option not to benefit ourselves even when doing so would be required by the consequentialist imperative to maxim ...
... and becomes more forceful, when our special relationship to self is fully in view. But for now, we must note that ordinary moral thought also recognizes a self-abnegating option, i.e., an option not to benefit ourselves even when doing so would be required by the consequentialist imperative to maxim ...
NooJ Semantic dictionaries - elliadd - Université de Franche
... • Similar to (symmetric relation between similar adjectival synsets); • Verb group (symmetric relation between semantically related verb synsets); • Also see (symmetric relation between synsets verbs or adjectives, that are close in meaning); • Category domain (asymmetric extralinguistic relation be ...
... • Similar to (symmetric relation between similar adjectival synsets); • Verb group (symmetric relation between semantically related verb synsets); • Also see (symmetric relation between synsets verbs or adjectives, that are close in meaning); • Category domain (asymmetric extralinguistic relation be ...
IMMANUEL KANT AND THE CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE
... theism that suggests that we ought to postulate a Law-giver before we can require human beings to be dutiful with their actions. The decision is arbitrary to follow the moral point of view if we assume that morality is simply the consensus of the general will. This certainly might help us in determi ...
... theism that suggests that we ought to postulate a Law-giver before we can require human beings to be dutiful with their actions. The decision is arbitrary to follow the moral point of view if we assume that morality is simply the consensus of the general will. This certainly might help us in determi ...
Grice: “Meaning”
... what a speaker would have intended by uttering such a sentence. 4. But there must be some constraints on these hypothetical intentions. Consider some sentence that has never (before now) been uttered: “57% of the armadillos in Texas prefer Wheaties to caviar.” One hypothetical intention is that the ...
... what a speaker would have intended by uttering such a sentence. 4. But there must be some constraints on these hypothetical intentions. Consider some sentence that has never (before now) been uttered: “57% of the armadillos in Texas prefer Wheaties to caviar.” One hypothetical intention is that the ...
boss1_ppt_ch_09
... Women, in contrast, are more context-oriented and view the world in terms of relationships and caring, called the “care perspective.” Research has reached no consensus on Gilligan’s claims. © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. ...
... Women, in contrast, are more context-oriented and view the world in terms of relationships and caring, called the “care perspective.” Research has reached no consensus on Gilligan’s claims. © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. ...
Philosophy of Language Starting issues Some things are languages
... The policeman stopped the car (there are different manners of stopping - is the manner part of the truth conditions? Is there a situation in which it is false on one reading, true on another?) Saturation/modulation: the meaning m of an expression is mapped to a distinct meaning f(m), where f is a pr ...
... The policeman stopped the car (there are different manners of stopping - is the manner part of the truth conditions? Is there a situation in which it is false on one reading, true on another?) Saturation/modulation: the meaning m of an expression is mapped to a distinct meaning f(m), where f is a pr ...
Ethical relativism is the view that moral codes are
... Bertram argued that he acted out of love for his wife. “I knew in my heart what I did was right. It was the only thing I could do to carry out her trust in me.” Did he do the right thing? Were you in a similar situation, what would you do? Could you, would you help a loved one to die? Could it ever ...
... Bertram argued that he acted out of love for his wife. “I knew in my heart what I did was right. It was the only thing I could do to carry out her trust in me.” Did he do the right thing? Were you in a similar situation, what would you do? Could you, would you help a loved one to die? Could it ever ...
Context in Semantics
... Semantics in Context Forthcoming in Contextualism, Gerhard Preyer, ed. (OUP). Jason Stanley Consider an utterance of the sentence "Some philosophers are from New York". If no philosopher in the world comes from New York, competent speakers of English know that it is false. They also know that this u ...
... Semantics in Context Forthcoming in Contextualism, Gerhard Preyer, ed. (OUP). Jason Stanley Consider an utterance of the sentence "Some philosophers are from New York". If no philosopher in the world comes from New York, competent speakers of English know that it is false. They also know that this u ...
Context in Semantics
... Semantics in Context Forthcoming in Contextualism, Gerhard Preyer, ed. (OUP). Jason Stanley Consider an utterance of the sentence "Some philosophers are from New York". If no philosopher in the world comes from New York, competent speakers of English know that it is false. They also know that this u ...
... Semantics in Context Forthcoming in Contextualism, Gerhard Preyer, ed. (OUP). Jason Stanley Consider an utterance of the sentence "Some philosophers are from New York". If no philosopher in the world comes from New York, competent speakers of English know that it is false. They also know that this u ...
Moral Dilemmas andRealism
... causal roles with respect to other propositional attitudes and nonmental causes and effects. But in my view beliefs and desires are distinguished not by such causal roles but by their different rationalizing roles with respect to other propositional attitudes. 4 Anyhow, let us assume that there is s ...
... causal roles with respect to other propositional attitudes and nonmental causes and effects. But in my view beliefs and desires are distinguished not by such causal roles but by their different rationalizing roles with respect to other propositional attitudes. 4 Anyhow, let us assume that there is s ...
"Nihilism" encyclopedia entry - Victoria University of Wellington
... nihilist about just about anything: A philosopher who does not believe in the existence of knowledge, for example, might be called an “epistemological nihilist”; an atheist might be called a “religious nihilist.” In the vicinity of ethics, one should take care to distinguish moral nihilism from poli ...
... nihilist about just about anything: A philosopher who does not believe in the existence of knowledge, for example, might be called an “epistemological nihilist”; an atheist might be called a “religious nihilist.” In the vicinity of ethics, one should take care to distinguish moral nihilism from poli ...
Enhancing Object-Oriented UML for Developing an Intelligent
... dictionary is a knowledge base, which can be considered as an intelligent language model and can be used for many language teaching purposes. This research shows how simple phrases can be generated or validated to be semantically correct. In the process of using OO UML to represent semantic knowledg ...
... dictionary is a knowledge base, which can be considered as an intelligent language model and can be used for many language teaching purposes. This research shows how simple phrases can be generated or validated to be semantically correct. In the process of using OO UML to represent semantic knowledg ...
haidt.bjorklund.2008.. - Faculty Web Sites at the University of Virginia
... Marcus (2004) uses the metaphor that genes create the first draft of the brain, and experience edits it: “Nature bestows upon the newborn a considerably complex brain, but one that is best seen as prewired – flexible and subject to change – rather than hardwired, fixed, and immutable” (Marcus, 2004, ...
... Marcus (2004) uses the metaphor that genes create the first draft of the brain, and experience edits it: “Nature bestows upon the newborn a considerably complex brain, but one that is best seen as prewired – flexible and subject to change – rather than hardwired, fixed, and immutable” (Marcus, 2004, ...
When Maxims Clash: Categorical Imperative and
... it impossible for one to act upon all of the maxims that it has approved. Consider the following, quite well-known example: a person rushes into a friend’s house, asking for a hiding place from a murderer. Moments later, the murderer appears at the friend’s door, looking for the former, and asks to ...
... it impossible for one to act upon all of the maxims that it has approved. Consider the following, quite well-known example: a person rushes into a friend’s house, asking for a hiding place from a murderer. Moments later, the murderer appears at the friend’s door, looking for the former, and asks to ...
Deductive Reasoning
... concepts requires employing particular deductive rules is contentious. Putting this worry aside, it is plausible that not every concept has justification-preserving constitutive rules. It is difficult to provide a principled distinction between concepts that have justificationpreserving constitutive ...
... concepts requires employing particular deductive rules is contentious. Putting this worry aside, it is plausible that not every concept has justification-preserving constitutive rules. It is difficult to provide a principled distinction between concepts that have justificationpreserving constitutive ...
Dilemmas and Moral Realism
... if it can be shown that our moral judgements are non-cognitive, we could then infer that there are no moral states of affairs. Williams casts the issue in terms of the specific cognitive and non-cognitive states of belief and desire, but this is not essential to his argument. The difference between ...
... if it can be shown that our moral judgements are non-cognitive, we could then infer that there are no moral states of affairs. Williams casts the issue in terms of the specific cognitive and non-cognitive states of belief and desire, but this is not essential to his argument. The difference between ...
Ethics and Business
... new technologies and products that less developed countries do not, multinationals must decide when a particular country is ready to assimilate these new things. They are also faced with the different moral codes and laws of different countries. Even if a particular norm is not unethical, they must ...
... new technologies and products that less developed countries do not, multinationals must decide when a particular country is ready to assimilate these new things. They are also faced with the different moral codes and laws of different countries. Even if a particular norm is not unethical, they must ...
Lecture 3 PPT
... ◦ Is the U.S. position in Afghanistan a “quagmire” like Vietnam? ◦ Is moral cultivation like carving a willow tree into cups and bowls, or like helping a plant to grow? ...
... ◦ Is the U.S. position in Afghanistan a “quagmire” like Vietnam? ◦ Is moral cultivation like carving a willow tree into cups and bowls, or like helping a plant to grow? ...
Disagreement and the Ethics of Belief
... neither makes prescriptions for what I should believe in the future. Further still, each is concerned with what I should believe now regarding the disputed proposition in question, and with respect to the goal of believing it if it is true and disbelieving it if it is false. Each has the same target ...
... neither makes prescriptions for what I should believe in the future. Further still, each is concerned with what I should believe now regarding the disputed proposition in question, and with respect to the goal of believing it if it is true and disbelieving it if it is false. Each has the same target ...
Meta Ethics - WordPress.com
... With this approach, ‘goodness’ is something that exists and can be described. In other words here is some point at which you can explain an ethical statement in terms of a non-ethical one. What is good may be found in particular qualities, or in the ability to promote the greatest happiness for the ...
... With this approach, ‘goodness’ is something that exists and can be described. In other words here is some point at which you can explain an ethical statement in terms of a non-ethical one. What is good may be found in particular qualities, or in the ability to promote the greatest happiness for the ...
Fulltext: english,
... between the caused change of location and caused change of state readings; I am reluctant to accept an analysis which captures all the commonality at this highly abstract level. Polysemy can still be maintained if, instead of reducing all meanings to just a single 'skeleton' or schema (which may als ...
... between the caused change of location and caused change of state readings; I am reluctant to accept an analysis which captures all the commonality at this highly abstract level. Polysemy can still be maintained if, instead of reducing all meanings to just a single 'skeleton' or schema (which may als ...
Chapter Five
... Broader view – corporate social responsibility: Says that a corporation has obligations not only to its stockholders, but to all other constituencies that affect, or are affected by, its behavior. This includes all parties that have a stake in what the corporation does or doesn’t do – employee ...
... Broader view – corporate social responsibility: Says that a corporation has obligations not only to its stockholders, but to all other constituencies that affect, or are affected by, its behavior. This includes all parties that have a stake in what the corporation does or doesn’t do – employee ...
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... punishment, voluntary euthanasia, etc. See DeGrazia [10]: 7 and 290. It is for this reason that I refer to it as a prima facie right. xii This is what DeGrazia [10]: 7 terms ‘substantial moral status’ which can be possessed by things which do not have ‘full’ moral status. ...
... punishment, voluntary euthanasia, etc. See DeGrazia [10]: 7 and 290. It is for this reason that I refer to it as a prima facie right. xii This is what DeGrazia [10]: 7 terms ‘substantial moral status’ which can be possessed by things which do not have ‘full’ moral status. ...
Chapter Two: Normative Theories of Ethics
... Utility and self-interest: Businesses are concerned with increasing profit and can be viewed as egoistic, but pursuing one’s own economic advantage can increase the well-being of society as a whole. Adam Smith (1723–1790): The main promoter of classical capitalism who argued that society can flo ...
... Utility and self-interest: Businesses are concerned with increasing profit and can be viewed as egoistic, but pursuing one’s own economic advantage can increase the well-being of society as a whole. Adam Smith (1723–1790): The main promoter of classical capitalism who argued that society can flo ...