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Moral Obligation and Moral Objectivity
2022“Why should I be moral?" is the most basic question that determines our value judgments and motivations regarding morality. Why being moral is necessary and what can be the source of moral responsibilities is an important problem. Moral truths are some laws that people feel obliged to behave in accordance with these truths and therefore try to ...
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The moral psychology of obligation
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019Abstract Although psychologists have paid scant attention to the sense of obligation as a distinctly human motivation, moral philosophers have identified two of its key features: First, it has a peremptory, demanding force, with a kind of coercive quality, and second, it is often tied to agreement-like social interactions (e.g., promises) in which ...
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Understanding Moral Obligation
2011In many histories of modern ethics, Kant is supposed to have ushered in an anti-realist or constructivist turn by holding that unless we ourselves 'author' or lay down moral norms and values for ourselves, our autonomy as agents will be threatened. In this book, Robert Stern challenges the cogency of this 'argument from autonomy', and claims that Kant ...
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Enhancements Are a Moral Obligation
2009Abstract If it wasn ‘t good for you it wouldn ‘t be enhancement. In terms of human functioning an enhancement is by definition an improvement on what went before. Not necessarily, as we shall see, an improvement on normal species functioning or species typical functioning, nor are enhancements justifled, as many seem to believe ...
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