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Moral ignorance and blameworthiness [PDF]
Philosophical Studies, 2015 In this paper I discuss various hard cases that an account of moral ignorance should be able to deal with: ancient slave holders, Susan Wolf’s JoJo, psychopaths such as Robert Harris, and finally, moral outliers (people who, despite a normal background, behave in odious ways).
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Difficult Cases and the Epistemic Justification of Moral Belief [PDF]
, 2017 This paper concerns the epistemology of difficult moral cases where the difficulty is not traceable to ignorance about non-moral matters. The paper first argues for a principle concerning the epistemic status of moral beliefs about difficult moral cases.
Schechter, Joshua
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eviewing and criticizing the semantic network of religious-ethical concepts in the Qur'an in the view of Izutsu [PDF]
اخلاق وحیانی, 2023 The distinction between belief and religious concepts with moral concepts seems to be an obvious issue among Muslim thinkers; But Izutsu has faced a challenge to this problem by proposing the semantic network theory of religious and belief concepts.
seyed mohsmmsd akbarian
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ProblemosThis article explores two concepts of akrasia and their relation to the ascription of responsibility in Douglas Husak’s theory of criminal responsibility.
Gediminas Šataitis
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No Moral Wiggle Room in an Experimental Corruption Game
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Recent experimental evidence reveals that information is often avoided by decision makers in order to create and exploit a so-called “moral wiggle room,” which reduces the psychological and moral costs associated with selfish behavior.
Loukas Balafoutas +2 more
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Preserving a combat commander’s moral agency: The Vincennes Incident as a Chinese Room [PDF]
, 2016 We argue that a command and control system can undermine a commander’s moral agency if it causes him/her to process information in a purely syntactic manner, or if it precludes him/her from ascertaining the truth of that information. Our case is based on
Hew, Patrick Chisan
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Teaching Socrates, Aristotle, and Augustine on Akrasia
Religions, 2015 A long-standing debate among moral philosophers centers on the question of whether ignorance is always at the root of moral wrongdoing, or whether, in certain cases, wrongdoing stems from something else—namely akrasia.
J. Caleb Clanton
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Intellectual and Moral Virtues of Transcendental Human Being in View of Imam Khomeini [PDF]
پژوهشنامه متین, 2023 Intellectual and moral virtues are among the most important issues in contemporary anthropology. They play a key role in characterizing transcendental human being and his spiritual perfection.
Ibrahim Ali pour, Fatemeh Bahjat
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Does Non-Moral Ignorance Exculpate? Situational Awareness and Attributions of Blame and Forgiveness [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper, we set out to test empirically an idea that many philosophers find intuitive, namely that non-moral ignorance can exculpate. Many philosophers find it intuitive that moral agents are responsible only if they know the particular facts ...
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Socrates’ Moral Epistemology: The Connection between Theory and Practice in Plato’s Early Writings [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2016 The early writings of Plato center based on a kind of knowledge which its object is moral virtues. According to the epistemology of these writings, theory is tied up with practice; since in its perspective, being aware of the moral virtue makes one moral
iman shafibeik
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