The Teaching of Happiness in Mainland China: in Light of Aristotle
... interpretations and principles of happiness, the Marxist view of happiness, are taught as irrefutable truth to students. Questioning such truths is not encouraged or even allowed by the Chinese government. As a result, these fundamental questions regarding happiness have not been fully discussed, or ...
... interpretations and principles of happiness, the Marxist view of happiness, are taught as irrefutable truth to students. Questioning such truths is not encouraged or even allowed by the Chinese government. As a result, these fundamental questions regarding happiness have not been fully discussed, or ...
Moral Imagination and Adorno: Before and After Auschwitz
... deliberate about morality: when you view moral harm and help in terms of accounting, you think that there is a finite amount of it, just as there’s a finite amount of other resources, and you become unlikely to help others so that you don’t deplete your ‘moral reserves.’ Thinking of morality in term ...
... deliberate about morality: when you view moral harm and help in terms of accounting, you think that there is a finite amount of it, just as there’s a finite amount of other resources, and you become unlikely to help others so that you don’t deplete your ‘moral reserves.’ Thinking of morality in term ...
WHAT WE CHOOSE: ETHICS FOR UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS A
... make and the actions we do or do not take can reflect our most deeply held values. Development, clarification, refinement, and expansion of our ethical thinking often occur in the midst of crisis or in response to an event or relationship that calls our world view into question. However, this progra ...
... make and the actions we do or do not take can reflect our most deeply held values. Development, clarification, refinement, and expansion of our ethical thinking often occur in the midst of crisis or in response to an event or relationship that calls our world view into question. However, this progra ...
two-column Word document - Unitarian Universalist Association
... make and the actions we do or do not take can reflect our most deeply held values. Development, clarification, refinement, and expansion of our ethical thinking often occur in the midst of crisis or in response to an event or relationship that calls our world view into question. However, this progra ...
... make and the actions we do or do not take can reflect our most deeply held values. Development, clarification, refinement, and expansion of our ethical thinking often occur in the midst of crisis or in response to an event or relationship that calls our world view into question. However, this progra ...
Beyond Evaluation Standards?
... similar ethical principles (MacIntyre, 1987; Norman, 1991). This means that moral theories must be identified, and must be validated as to how they can offer different justifications for a common set of moral principles (for instance, honesty, beneficence, trust, justice, and so forth). In all, ther ...
... similar ethical principles (MacIntyre, 1987; Norman, 1991). This means that moral theories must be identified, and must be validated as to how they can offer different justifications for a common set of moral principles (for instance, honesty, beneficence, trust, justice, and so forth). In all, ther ...
How Autonomous Are Collective Agents? Corporate Rights and
... agents. And as soon as this is granted, it is far from obvious that the conclusion that collective agents should have a wide range of rights can be avoided, even though we are reluctant to att ...
... agents. And as soon as this is granted, it is far from obvious that the conclusion that collective agents should have a wide range of rights can be avoided, even though we are reluctant to att ...
Outline of Virtue Ethics encyclopedia article
... but they argued that a focus on moral connection rather than separateness/autonomy can work as a much-needed corrective or supplement to traditional rationalist ethical theorizing and may even support a total reconfiguring of previous philosophical thinking about morality (e. g., support thinking of ...
... but they argued that a focus on moral connection rather than separateness/autonomy can work as a much-needed corrective or supplement to traditional rationalist ethical theorizing and may even support a total reconfiguring of previous philosophical thinking about morality (e. g., support thinking of ...
Unit 1: Introduction to Ethics
... The branch of philosophical study that focuses on ‘ethics’ is concerned with studying and/or building up a coherent set of ‘rules’ or principles by which people ought to live. The theoretical study of ethics is not normally something that many people would regard as being necessary in order for them ...
... The branch of philosophical study that focuses on ‘ethics’ is concerned with studying and/or building up a coherent set of ‘rules’ or principles by which people ought to live. The theoretical study of ethics is not normally something that many people would regard as being necessary in order for them ...
HittIV - Michigan State University
... unhappiness to the party whose interest is considered”’14, p. 34 This definition should be expanded to include “that property in’ any object or action 9. An action is right from an ethical point of view if and only if the sum total of utilities produced by that act is greater than the stun total of ...
... unhappiness to the party whose interest is considered”’14, p. 34 This definition should be expanded to include “that property in’ any object or action 9. An action is right from an ethical point of view if and only if the sum total of utilities produced by that act is greater than the stun total of ...
Kant`s Puzzling Ethics of Maxims
... prudence, and immediate inclination. This has very important consequences. For instance, fiddling about with the formulation of maxims turns out to be merely verbal. We simply cannot make our maxims fit the categorical imperative in this way. We act on the maxim that incorporates an objective sugge ...
... prudence, and immediate inclination. This has very important consequences. For instance, fiddling about with the formulation of maxims turns out to be merely verbal. We simply cannot make our maxims fit the categorical imperative in this way. We act on the maxim that incorporates an objective sugge ...
Don`t Let it Happen Again: A Kantian Account of
... about his moral theory, provide us with the information necessary to construct a Kantian account of forgiveness. In this paper I sketch such an account and argue that it is distinguished by three features. First, Kantian forgiveness is best understood as the revision of the actions one takes toward ...
... about his moral theory, provide us with the information necessary to construct a Kantian account of forgiveness. In this paper I sketch such an account and argue that it is distinguished by three features. First, Kantian forgiveness is best understood as the revision of the actions one takes toward ...
The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth about Morality
... it? Presumably not. If, somehow, the whole community were to decide that torturing cats is okay, this activity would, by the lights of most people, still be wrong. In answering these questions in the negative, one expresses an implicit theory concerning the metaphysics of morals. Moral claims, some ...
... it? Presumably not. If, somehow, the whole community were to decide that torturing cats is okay, this activity would, by the lights of most people, still be wrong. In answering these questions in the negative, one expresses an implicit theory concerning the metaphysics of morals. Moral claims, some ...
final final final
... and by no means universally applicable rules. Probably with the exception of Rosalind Hursthouse,22 philosophers admit that virtue ethics is, in principle, not codifiable. Moreover, it is even named sometimes “situational ethics”. But this expression has no pejorative connotation. It only suggests t ...
... and by no means universally applicable rules. Probably with the exception of Rosalind Hursthouse,22 philosophers admit that virtue ethics is, in principle, not codifiable. Moreover, it is even named sometimes “situational ethics”. But this expression has no pejorative connotation. It only suggests t ...
Ethical Absolutism and Relativism
... “It’s Good Business” (Cont.) • Behaving ethical can be more costly in the short term • Example: adding safety equipment not required by law • Bears higher cost to do what the firm believes is right ...
... “It’s Good Business” (Cont.) • Behaving ethical can be more costly in the short term • Example: adding safety equipment not required by law • Bears higher cost to do what the firm believes is right ...
Frankena, Chapter 4
... wills are fettered, that nothing is real in in their power to alter. Fate determines all. No man’s destiny is in any degree up to him. Everything he ever does is something he could never have avoided..it is idle to speak of free will. PEP 570: Frankena, Chapter 4 ...
... wills are fettered, that nothing is real in in their power to alter. Fate determines all. No man’s destiny is in any degree up to him. Everything he ever does is something he could never have avoided..it is idle to speak of free will. PEP 570: Frankena, Chapter 4 ...
Michael Josephson on Ethical Decision Making
... Making consistently ethical decisions is difficult. Most decisions have to be made in the context of economic, professional and social pressures which can sometimes challenge our ethical goals and conceal or confuse the moral issues. In addition, making ethical choices is complex because in many sit ...
... Making consistently ethical decisions is difficult. Most decisions have to be made in the context of economic, professional and social pressures which can sometimes challenge our ethical goals and conceal or confuse the moral issues. In addition, making ethical choices is complex because in many sit ...
Objective Morality_final
... blame must, of course, be mediated by a more specific theory of moral character and the appropriateness of blame, which I shall not offer here. Furthermore, I do not want to state the connection between these concepts too strongly. It is likely that any connection between virtuous decisionmaking, pr ...
... blame must, of course, be mediated by a more specific theory of moral character and the appropriateness of blame, which I shall not offer here. Furthermore, I do not want to state the connection between these concepts too strongly. It is likely that any connection between virtuous decisionmaking, pr ...
Engineering Ethics: An Introduction
... Professional Ethics On the other hand, suppose civil engineer Jack refuses to participate in the design of a project that he believes will be contrary to the principles of sustainable development, which are set out in the code of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He may not personally believ ...
... Professional Ethics On the other hand, suppose civil engineer Jack refuses to participate in the design of a project that he believes will be contrary to the principles of sustainable development, which are set out in the code of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He may not personally believ ...
An Internalist Dilemma - University of Colorado Boulder
... One of the main arguments for internalism is that it is able to explain our linguistic intuitions as regards the connection between moral language and motivation. In fact, virtually all authors who are attracted by internalism appeal explicitly or implicitly to this consideration and it might be re ...
... One of the main arguments for internalism is that it is able to explain our linguistic intuitions as regards the connection between moral language and motivation. In fact, virtually all authors who are attracted by internalism appeal explicitly or implicitly to this consideration and it might be re ...
Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions
... a surprise birthday party,” even though it turns out to have been false. The authors anticipated this criticism by including a question that would expose a tendency to favor this sense of the term. (p. ...
... a surprise birthday party,” even though it turns out to have been false. The authors anticipated this criticism by including a question that would expose a tendency to favor this sense of the term. (p. ...
BENNETT v. HALLIE
... – Hallie provides an excerpt from the Nuremberg trial transcript of Otto Ohlendorf, who had participated in the extermination of Jews and Soviet political leaders, to show that Ohlendorf was a moral monster. – Ohlendorf claims that he had “scruples” about carrying out his orders to kill people but ...
... – Hallie provides an excerpt from the Nuremberg trial transcript of Otto Ohlendorf, who had participated in the extermination of Jews and Soviet political leaders, to show that Ohlendorf was a moral monster. – Ohlendorf claims that he had “scruples” about carrying out his orders to kill people but ...
Utilitarianism
... that is the criterion of right action. For this reason, we should organise society and raise children in such a way that each person feels that their own happiness is bound up with the happiness of others, that they are made happy by making others happy. 4. Utilitarianism is a godless theory. Reply: ...
... that is the criterion of right action. For this reason, we should organise society and raise children in such a way that each person feels that their own happiness is bound up with the happiness of others, that they are made happy by making others happy. 4. Utilitarianism is a godless theory. Reply: ...
Ethical Dimensions in Responsible Professionalism
... ethics is characteristic of professional judgment rather than personal judgment because it emphasizes an individual’s duty or obligation to comply with the norms and standards of the profession. An individual’s ethics application perspective is either holistic (a characteristic of professional judgm ...
... ethics is characteristic of professional judgment rather than personal judgment because it emphasizes an individual’s duty or obligation to comply with the norms and standards of the profession. An individual’s ethics application perspective is either holistic (a characteristic of professional judgm ...
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... Attempt was also made by Smith(1971) to add precision to the concept of value. He adopted a definition first presented by Kluckhohn which is read as follows: “Values are conceptions of the desirable notions that are relevant to selective behavior.” In distinguishing value from similar concepts but n ...
... Attempt was also made by Smith(1971) to add precision to the concept of value. He adopted a definition first presented by Kluckhohn which is read as follows: “Values are conceptions of the desirable notions that are relevant to selective behavior.” In distinguishing value from similar concepts but n ...
Chapter 4 The Moral Conscience
... b) Since conscience is the instrument with which one must judge his actions, such judgment should always be made with true or correct conscience. i) This requires knowledge of the general principles of morality and their application, by conscience to concrete acts. ii) Conduct that is modeled on rig ...
... b) Since conscience is the instrument with which one must judge his actions, such judgment should always be made with true or correct conscience. i) This requires knowledge of the general principles of morality and their application, by conscience to concrete acts. ii) Conduct that is modeled on rig ...