Results 31 to 40 of about 14,271 (146)

O político do medo e o medo da política The politician of fear and the fear of politics

Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Política, 2005
Este artigo examina o papel do medo na legitimação da autoridade política. Seu argumento é que o medo é um sentimento moral importante na constituição de um soberano legítimo, e para tanto mobiliza exemplos da teoria política e das práticas políticas do ...
José Eisenberg
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis and Examination of William Lane Craig’s Viewpoint on the Relationship between Religion and Ethics [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī
This paper scrutinizes William Lane Craig’s perspective on the relationship between religion and ethics. According to Craig, knowledge of moral values and obligations is not inherently tied to theism, as he posits that God has embedded moral obligations ...
Reza Naghavi
doaj   +1 more source

Moral Error Theory and the Argument from Epistemic Reasons

Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2017
In this paper I defend what I call the argument from epistemic reasons against the moral error theory. I argue that the moral error theory entails that there are no epistemic reasons for belief and that this is bad news for the moral error theory since, if there are no epistemic reasons for belief, no one knows anything.
openaire   +4 more sources

Is It Morally Permissible for Some People to Rape and Murder? Responding to Erik Wielenberg’s Argument That Divine Command Theory Fails to Explain How Psychopaths Have Moral Obligations

Religions, 2023
Atheist moral philosopher Erik Wielenberg recently argued that Divine Command Theory is implausible as an explanation of objective morality because it fails to explain how psychopaths have moral obligations. In this paper I explain that everyone agrees the consciences of psychopaths don’t work as they should, but there’s disagreement among experts as ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Prototype theory and the importance of literary form for moral imagination

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Prototype theory, which argues that categories have graded (and thus fuzzy) membership based on prototypes, has been used as cognitive evidence to support moral particularism because if categories (in moral rules) only have fuzzy conceptual boundaries ...
Yi Zheng
doaj   +1 more source

Analyzing Rejection of Corpse Infected by Covid 19 in the Perspective of Moral Panic and Fiqh Sosial Theories

Santri, 2020
This research discusses an interdisciplinary study of Covid 19 excesses that is currently affecting the world, including Indonesia. There were cases of stigma and rejection of corpse infected by Covid 19 that occurred in Banyumas, Lampung, Gowa, South ...
Muhammad Labib
doaj   +1 more source

A Constitutivist Theory of Reasons: Its Promise and Parts

Law, Ethics and Philosophy, 2013
The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, it explains what a constitutivist theory of reasons is and why the theory promises to deliver the holy grail of moral philosophy, which is an argument to the conclusion that each of us would choose to act ...
Michael Smith
doaj  

Gewirthian Prudence, Generic Agency, and Moral Rights

Profil
Much critical attention has been given to Alan Gewirth’s argument concerning agents’ move from prudential to moral right-claims. Less ink has been spilled on the question of why prudent agents should claim rights to goods needed by agents in general ...
Per Bauhn
doaj   +1 more source

Obligations beyond morality: Bernard Williams and Ronald Dworkin on legal normativity

Revista Direito Mackenzie, 2022
In this essay I will draw from moral philosopher Bernard Williams to criticise the claim made by Ronald Dworkin that legal obligations are a particular kind of moral obligations.
Daniel Murata
doaj  

Justiça como Equidade e o Problema da Razoabilidade

DoisPontos, 2015
In this paper I intend to show the importance of the concept of reasonable in John Rawls's theory of justice as fairness and, also, I intend to explain the problem of reasonableness in this theory.
Denis Coitinho Silveira
doaj   +1 more source