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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 Commitment

2022
Abstract This chapter focuses on moral motivation, virtue, and what it means to have a Kantian good will. For Kant, a person with a good will is committed to morality in a way that means that we can always count on them to do the right thing, no matter what temptations they face or what pressures they are under.
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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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A Perspective for Understanding Moral Commitment

Health Marketing Quarterly, 1992
For an exchange to occur in a commercial setting between a salesperson and a customer is one thing; for an exchange to occur in a health care setting between a physician and a patient is another matter. Traditional marketing exchange literature is mostly concerned about discrete relationships in commercial settings. Such concern has encouraged a narrow
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Schooling and socialization for moral commitment

Interchange, 1972
Central to socialization is the growth of commitment to values and moral rules and the formation of beliefs about society as a moral order. To what extent does schooling influence these processes? In what ways? How might it influence them? Answers to these questions have been rhetorical for the most part because so little is known about the ways that ...
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Bank bailouts: Moral hazard and commitment

Journal of Mathematical Economics
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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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