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Identity, commitment and morality

Journal of Economic Methodology, 2006
In his critique of a self‐interest understanding of rationality Amartya Sen appeals to notions like commitment and identity. Sen uses ‘identity’ in an abstract sense: it refers to the conditions of rational agency. Sen's emphasis on the notion of identity finds a parallel in recent Kantian accounts, e.g. the work of Christine M. Korsgaard and Elizabeth
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Moral Rationalism and Moral Commitment

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2000
Moral rationalism is identified as the view that moral constraints are rational constraints. This view seems implausible to many because it seems to involve belief in the fantasticsounding possibility of egoist-conversion: that, in principle, an argument for moral constraints could be produced which would motivate a rational person who does not yet ...
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Education and Moral Commitment

Journal of Moral Education, 1996
Abstract This paper argues that most school‐based moral education programmes are limited by their exclusive focus on moral reflection and their neglect of moral habit, effect and commitment. In order to have a far‐reaching impact on young people's moral conduct, schools must join with other institutions, including families, churches, youth programmes ...
William Damon, Anne Colby
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Pathological Moralizing: Is Moral Judgment a Commitment Device?

Ethics, 2020
Eric Campbell has argued that we should abolish moral discourse on the grounds that making moral judgments leads to “potentially severe practical pathologies,” including hypocrisy and self-delusion...
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Moral and Rational Commitment

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2012
We often use the term ‘commitment’ to make claims of apparent normative import. An ontologically scrupulous philosopher says that she cannot accept a certain principle because it would commit her to abstracta. A conscientious friend says that he’d like to make your party but feels bound by a prior commitment.
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Moral Character, Commitment, and Persistence

Philosophical Inquiries, 2019
Virtue ethicists assume that the notion of (moral) character should hold a prominent place in our moral thought. In this paper, I offer an argument in support of this view.  Central to my argument is a reflection on what it means to be committed to a principle of action.
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Moral Agency, Commitment, and Impartiality

Social Philosophy and Policy, 1996
Liberal political philosophy presupposes a moral theory according to which the ability to assess and choose conceptions of the good from a universal and impartial moral standpoint is central to the individual's moral identity. This viewpoint is standardly understood by liberals as that of a rationalhuman(nottranscendental) agent.
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Care, Commitment and Moral Distress

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2018
Moral distress has been the subject of extensive research and debate in the nursing ethics literature since the mid-1980s, but the concept has received comparatively little attention from those working outside of applied ethics. In this article, I defend a care ethical account of moral distress, according to which the phenomenon is the product of an ...
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Bank bailouts: Moral hazard and commitment

Journal of Mathematical Economics
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The moral commitment problem, moral emotions, and moral judgments. An evolutionary analysis.

This presentation provides an overview of an integrated theoretical model firmly rooted in a gene-culture coevolutionary framework, which addresses empathy, moral intuitions, and moral emotions such as anticipated anger and guilt as solutions to moral commitment problems—commonly understood as failures to cooperate.
De Buck, Ann, Pauwels, Lieven
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