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The moderating role of moral norms and personal cost in compliance with pro-environmental social norms

Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 2021
The adoption of sustainable lifestyles plays a key role in mitigating climate change. Previous research has found that social norms—beliefs about what most people do and approve of—profoundly impact individual engagement in pro-environmental behaviour ...
Ondřej Kácha, Sander van der Linden
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Is Harry Frankfurt’s ‘Doctrine of Sufficiency’ Sufficient? [PDF]

, 2016
In his article, “Equality as a Moral Ideal”, Harry Frankfurt argues against economic egalitarianism and presents what he calls the “doctrine of sufficiency.” According to the doctrine of sufficiency, what is morally important is not relative economic ...
Chung, Hun
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The Curious Case of Ronald McDonald’s Claim to Rights: An Ontological Account of Differences in Group and Individual Person Rights

Journal of Social Ontology, 2018
Performative accounts of personhood argue that group agents are persons, fit to be held responsible within the social sphere. Nonetheless, these accounts want to retain a moral distinction between group and individual persons.
Leonie Smith
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A Defense of Scalar Utilitarianism [PDF]

, 2017
Scalar Utilitarianism eschews foundational notions of rightness and wrongness in favor of evaluative comparisons of outcomes. I defend Scalar Utilitarianism from two critiques, the first against an argument for the thesis that Utilitarianism's ...
Tobia, Kevin Patrick
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Are Moral Firms Committed Firms?

Daedalus, 2023
Abstract Corporate purpose is everywhere, but will it stay? Is it a business revolution or a passing fad, destined to go the way of so many business concepts? Reliance on the good judgment and goodwill of corporate leaders is a justifiable cause for concern, and resort is often sought instead in the apparently safe harbor of public ...
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Why Queerness is not enough [PDF]

, 2014
Moral error theorists often claim to be strongly anti‑metaphysical in their moral scepticism and atheistic naturalists. This paper argues that pre‑ cisely this becomes a problem for them, when their metaethical and ontologi‑
David, Kretz
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Moral Practice in Late Stoicism and Buddhist Meditation [PDF]

, 2017
I argue in this essay that Stoic philosophers in the late Greco-Roman period utilized philosophical exercises and spiritual technologies similar in form to a meditative exercise currently practiced in Buddhism.
GOERGER, Michael
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The foundations of conscientious objection: against freedom and autonomy [PDF]

, 2018
According to the common view, conscientious objection is grounded in autonomy or in ‘freedom of conscience’ and is tolerated out of respect for the objector's autonomy.
Danaher, John, Nehushtan, Yossi
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Thought Experiments in Ethics [PDF]

, 2017
This chapter suggests a scheme of reconstruction, which explains how scenarios, questions and arguments figure in thought experiments. It then develops a typology of ethical thought experiments according to their function, which can be epistemic ...
Brun, Georg
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Penal Philosophy and Practice from a Historical and Theological Perspective

Histories
This article critiques penal philosophy and practice in contemporary society through the lens of historical–ecclesial tradition. The article opens with a discussion of the penitential rituals in the first Christian monasteries and the eventual adoption ...
Andrew Skotnicki, Karol Lucken
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