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Michael Smith and the daleks: reason, morality, and contingency [PDF]
, 1999 Smith has defended the rationalist's conceptual claim that moral requirements are categorical requirements of reason, arguing that no status short of this would make sense of our taking these requirements as seriously as we do.
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Moral Cost, Commitment, and Committee Size [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003 Consider a committee that in the past has made a promise not to confiscate the profits from an investor. After the investment has taken place, there is a material benefit if the committee decides to default on the earlier promise. But in some situations there are also some small moral costs for those who vote in favor of default.
Steffen Huck, Kai A. Konrad
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How Moral Uncertaintism Can Be Both True and Interesting [PDF]
, 2017 Several philosophers have tried to develop a framework for decision-making in the face of fundamental moral uncertainty. Critics argue that the project is misguided, as it assumes that there’s a kind of “subjective” rightness that depends on which moral ...
Sepielli, Andrew
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Structural similarities between the tradition of moral philosophy and Durkheim’s social theory
Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2017 The first sociological theories are indebted to Enlightenment philosophy of history, which first appeared to provide a framework of meaning for moral action once moral theory had renounced the metaphysical commitments of early modern moral philosophy ...
Ana Marta González
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ethical reasons and political commitment [PDF]
, 2009 Political commitments to resist oppression play a central role in the moral lives of many people. Such commitments are also a source of ethical reasons. They influence and organize ethical beliefs, emotions and reasons in an ongoing way.
A. Politkovskay +13 more
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To What Extent Does Kant's Doctrine of the Highest Good Embody a Realist Orientation Towards Ethics? [PDF]
Public Reason, 2023 In recent years, an increasing body of literature explores the idea that Kant may be read as endorsing a kind of meta-ethical constitutivism. In this paper, I argue that this label only partly fits.
Sasha Mudd
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Imagination as a reflection of value-commitment
Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2007 Hume remarked on how our moral value-commitments set limits for what we are willing to imagine. Moral values also guide imagination when we envision variant scenarios and options for action. How do values reveal themselves through imagining ...
Edward Eugene Kleist
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Mediating Multiculturally: Culture and the Ethical Mediator [PDF]
, 2011 This commentary on mediating multiculturally in a chapter of Mediation Ethics (edited by Ellen Waldman) suggests there are times when mediators should not mediate, because of their own ethical commitments.
Abramson, Harold I +1 more
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Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism and the Evolutionary Objection: Rethinking the Relevance of Empirical Science [PDF]
, 2018 Neo-Aristotelian metaethical naturalism is a modern attempt at naturalizing ethics using ideas from Aristotle’s teleological metaphysics. Proponents of this view argue that moral virtue in human beings is an instance of natural goodness, a kind of ...
C Andreou +32 more
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Filosofía pública y educación. La reconstrucción de la educación cívica en la democracia fuerte
Teoría de la Educación: Revista Interuniversitaria, 2009 In this paper, the author explore the relevance and significance of civic education in a «strong democracy», in the context of european community. After explore and defend the moral condition of the Europe union, the author reflect on some specifics ...
Fernando BÁRCENA ORBE
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