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Can God’s Goodness Save the Divine Command Theory from Euthyphro? [PDF]
, 2012 Recent defenders of the divine command theory like Adams and Alston have confronted the Euthyphro dilemma by arguing that although God’s commands make right actions right, God is morally perfect and hence would never issue unjust or immoral commandments.
Koons, Jeremy
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Moral Luck and The Unfairness of Morality [PDF]
, 2019 Moral luck occurs when factors beyond an agent’s control positively affect how much praise or blame she deserves. Kinds of moral luck are differentiated by the source of lack of control such as the results of her actions, the circumstances in which she ...
Hartman, Robert
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Child Sexual Abuse: The Law and Moral Obligation
South African Family Practice, 2000 No abstract available.
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The Second-Person Standpoint in Law and Morality [PDF]
, 2014 The papers of this special issue are the outcome of a two-‐day conference entitled “The Second-‐Person Standpoint in Law and Morality,” that took place at the University of Vienna in March 2013 and was organized by the ERC Advanced Research Grant ...
Pauer-Studer, Herlinde
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The Suberogation Problem for Lei Zhong's Confucian Virtue Theory of Supererogation [PDF]
, 2019 A virtue-based theory of right action aims to explain deontic moral principles in terms of virtue and vice. For example, it may maintain the following account of moral obligation: It is morally obligatory for an agent A to ϕ in circumstances C if and ...
Ho, Tsung-Hsing
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
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Plato’s Crito on Civil Disobedience and Political Obligations
Peitho, 2011 The present paper focuses on the complex relation between ethics and politics in Plato’s Crito. While the issue is presented from a contemporary perspective, the problems of civil disobedience and political obligation are the present study’s primarily ...
Tomasz Kuniński
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The Criminal Jury, Moral Judgments, and Political Representation [PDF]
, 2018 Was the sexual act consensual? Did the defendant have a reasonable belief that he was in imminent danger of death by an attacker? Did the police use excessive force? Did the defendant act in a heinous or cruel manner?
Lee, Youngjae
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