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Rationality and moral obligation
Synthese, 1987Rationality is (“by definition,” as it were) a matter of seeking optimal (best available) resolutions to the problems we face in life. It consists in the intelligent pursuit of appropriate objectives. It impels us to act for the best. Does this mean that rationality requires people to be good?
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2016
Using Roger Crisp's [1] arguments for well-being as the ultimate source of moral reasoning, this paper argues that there are no ultimate, non-derivative reasons to program robots with moral concepts such as moral obligation, morally wrong or morally right.
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Using Roger Crisp's [1] arguments for well-being as the ultimate source of moral reasoning, this paper argues that there are no ultimate, non-derivative reasons to program robots with moral concepts such as moral obligation, morally wrong or morally right.
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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2004
Moral philosophy characteristically sees moral standards as reasons. That an action would be kind or just or in some way morally admirable is supposed to give us a reason for performing it. And surely there is something right about the thought that moral standards imply reasons for conforming to them.
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Moral philosophy characteristically sees moral standards as reasons. That an action would be kind or just or in some way morally admirable is supposed to give us a reason for performing it. And surely there is something right about the thought that moral standards imply reasons for conforming to them.
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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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2002
Abstract Examines four principle questions about moral obligation raised by key philosophers: (1) Plato asks in The Republic ‘Will a man be better off for doing his duty?’; (2) Plato then asks ‘Ought man to do his duty?’; (3) we may also ask ‘What is the criterion of a duty?’; and (4) we may ask ‘What is moral obligation?’ Rejecting the ...
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Abstract Examines four principle questions about moral obligation raised by key philosophers: (1) Plato asks in The Republic ‘Will a man be better off for doing his duty?’; (2) Plato then asks ‘Ought man to do his duty?’; (3) we may also ask ‘What is the criterion of a duty?’; and (4) we may ask ‘What is moral obligation?’ Rejecting the ...
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Moral Theories and Moral Obligations
2020A moral theory is a set of concepts, rules and principles that serve as guides to the resolution of ethical dilemmas; they also purport to tell us how we ought to behave. Various objectives have been ascribed to the purpose of morality. These include the minimization of evil, the maximization of the good, fidelity to moral principles, and the ...
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Moral Obligation and Moral Motivation
Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume, 1995'Internalism’ in ethics is a cluster of views according to which there is an ‘internal’ connection between moral obligations and either motivations or reasons to act morally; ‘externalism’ says that such connections are contingent. So described, the dispute between internalism and externalism may seem a technical debate of minor interest.
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The Obligations of the Moral–Scientific Stance
American Journal of Community Psychology, 2003AbstractOne of the most important contributions of community psychology is to have community interventions that have intended outcomes and to describe the intervention in ways that are sufficiently complete and replicable. However, the descriptions we have are too incomplete.
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Hobbes on Obligation, Moral and Political: Part One: Moral Obligation
Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1971Having . . . arrived at two maxims of human nature; the one arising from the concupiscible part, which desires to appropriate to itself the use of those things in which all others have a joint interest; the other proceeding from the rational, which teaches every man to fly a contra-natural dissolution, as the greatest mischief that can arrive to nature:
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