Rational Moral Ignorance [PDF]
AbstractWhat should a person do when, through no fault of her own, she ends up believing a false moral theory? Some suggest that she should act against what the false theory recommends; others argue that she should follow her rationally held moral beliefs. While the former view better accords with intuitions about cases, the latter one seems to enjoy a
Arpaly N. +15 more
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"Inculpable Ignorance" in war: Collateral damage and supreme emergency [PDF]
In this paper, author aims to determine the existence of the possibility of the inculpable ignorance argument even for acts of combatants in war, in specific contexts of collateral damage and supreme emergency.
Stanar Dragan
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God and the Problem of Blameless Moral Ignorance
A morally perfect God necessarily desires that all rational agents behave morally. An omnipotent and omniscient God has the power and knowledge to ensure that all rational agents have sufficient moral knowledge to do what morality requires.
Fred Elbert
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Moral Decision Making: From Bentham to Veil of Ignorance via Perspective Taking Accessibility
Making morally sensitive decisions and evaluations pervade many human everyday activities. Philosophers, economists, psychologists and behavioural scientists researching such decision-making typically explore the principles, processes and predictors that
Rose Martin +4 more
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Explaining the structure of intellect and ignorance based on three components of thought and present and action with emphasis on the description of mulla Sadra's sufficient principles. [PDF]
Imam Ja'far Sadegh (AS) in the noble hadith of intellect and ignorance, introduces the necessity of human guidance to know the armies of intellect and ignorance. Sadr al-Muta'allehin Shirazi has paid special attention to the explanation of this hadith in
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(Un)deliberate ignorance. Discreet charm and adaptive functions of motivated ignorance
First, the author cites several of wilful ignorance and analyzes the concept in relation to related terms such as “voluntary blindness”, “information avoidance” and “negative knowledge”.
Krzysztof Mudyń
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Mulla Sadra's Quranic reading in response to the intellectual deviations of the false mystics of the age [PDF]
The Qur'an and Sunnah are one of the basic pillars of transcendent wisdom; in a way, it has placed Mulla Sadra's philosophy at the highest level of conformity with religion and the use of religious sacred texts in the midst of philosophical and ...
Zohre Abyar, SHahla Abyar
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This paper explores some ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) could be used to improve human moral judgments in bioethics by avoiding some of the most common sources of error in moral judgment, including ignorance, confusion, and bias.
Joshua (Gus) August Skorburg +1 more
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The main aim of this paper is to present an interpretation of what Socrates understood by being good for a human being. Starting from the evidence in the Symposium that Socrates himself was a phronimos and sophron person, I seek to show how Socratic ...
José Lourenço Pereira da Silva
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On the Existence of Robot Zombies and our Ethical Obligations to AI Systems
As artificial intelligence algorithms improve, we will interact with programs that seem increasingly human. We may never know if these algorithms are sentient, yet this quality is crucial to ethical considerations regarding their moral status.
Luke R. Hansen
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