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Kant on Evil, Self-Deception, and Moral Reform
, 2018 Kant on Evil, Self-Deception, and Moral Reform explores the cognitive dimensions of evil and moral reform in Immanuel Kant’s mature ethical theory. Its questions include what self-deception is for Kant, why and how it is connected to evil, and how we ...
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Philosophy, 1941
Though we should probably find it easier to detect immorality in its instances than to determine morality in its essence, we generally take it for granted that to be moral is to be good. On the assumption, I suppose, that morality and goodness are actually equivalent, some have even said that it is goodness alone that is good.
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Though we should probably find it easier to detect immorality in its instances than to determine morality in its essence, we generally take it for granted that to be moral is to be good. On the assumption, I suppose, that morality and goodness are actually equivalent, some have even said that it is goodness alone that is good.
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Collectivity, evil and the dynamics of moral value
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2015AbstractThe paper aims at making explicit and question the dominant conception that morality is a matter of values and valuation. This conception is usually taken as the self‐evident frame of analysis, both in ethical theorizing and in everyday life and also in most discussions of ethics in medical contexts (e.g. in debates about ‘values‐based practice’
Joel, Backström, Hannes, Nykänen
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2003
AbstractRousseau is often celebrated or cursed as an exemplar Enlightenment philosopher who declared that although humans are naturally good, society tampers with us and thereby corrupts us. Although Rousseau's complex and even contradictory writings engender disagreement among his interpreters, all seem to agree that Rousseau spurned any notion of ...
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AbstractRousseau is often celebrated or cursed as an exemplar Enlightenment philosopher who declared that although humans are naturally good, society tampers with us and thereby corrupts us. Although Rousseau's complex and even contradictory writings engender disagreement among his interpreters, all seem to agree that Rousseau spurned any notion of ...
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1999
Abstract David E. is 23. He is in police custody because he inflicted injuries leading to severe brain damage in a 29 year old woman. He met the woman at a dance where he had gone with some friends. He danced with her a few times, bought one or two drinks and agreed to take her somewhere quieter for coffee.
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Abstract David E. is 23. He is in police custody because he inflicted injuries leading to severe brain damage in a 29 year old woman. He met the woman at a dance where he had gone with some friends. He danced with her a few times, bought one or two drinks and agreed to take her somewhere quieter for coffee.
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The Moralization of Good and Evil
1997Cora Diamond quotes Henry James saying of Henry Fielding: … we see [Tom Jones] through the mellow air of Fielding’s fine old moralism, fine old humour and fine old style, which somehow really enlarge, make every one and every thing important ...
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2022
Narcissism is one of the most widely debated toxic and destructive personality structures today, however key aspects of narcissism remain blurred both to practitioners, to health policy decision makers, and to victims and survivors of narcissistic abuse.
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Narcissism is one of the most widely debated toxic and destructive personality structures today, however key aspects of narcissism remain blurred both to practitioners, to health policy decision makers, and to victims and survivors of narcissistic abuse.
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The Moral Significance of Evil
2009Evil is the strongest one-word condemnation our moral vocabulary affords. In its primary sense, evil is predicated of actions. An action is evil if the agent performing it has a malevolent motive, the action causes grievous, gratuitous harm to innocent victims, and lacks a morally acceptable excuse. Understood in this way, evil is prevalent.
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1991
5.1 I have said that God, a supremely perfect being, would have appropriate pro and con attitudes toward human beings and their actions. But here someone may ask, ‘Why would God have any con attitudes? No doubt he does, if he exists, have con attitudes toward wrongdoers, since they exist. But why does he permit them to exist?’ The reader will recognize
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5.1 I have said that God, a supremely perfect being, would have appropriate pro and con attitudes toward human beings and their actions. But here someone may ask, ‘Why would God have any con attitudes? No doubt he does, if he exists, have con attitudes toward wrongdoers, since they exist. But why does he permit them to exist?’ The reader will recognize
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Torture, evil and moral development
Journal of Moral Education, 2015I’ve been ruminating about torture and evil after stumbling upon and reading a couple of books on evil during a recent academic break, but especially since the release in December 2014 of the execu...
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