It has often been suggested that people's ordinary understanding of morality involves a belief in objective moral truths and a rejection of moral relativism. The results of six studies call this claim into question. Participants did offer apparently objectivist moral intuitions when considering individuals from their own culture, but they offered ...
Hagop Sarkissian +2 more
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The origins of postmodern moral relativism
Postmodernism, which emerged in the 1960s, involves a wide range of fields and carries out all-round critical reflections on the foundation, tradition and other aspects of the development of modern civilization.
Gang Deng
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Attitude of Romanian Medical Students and Doctors toward Business Ethics: Analyzing the Influence of Sex, Age, and Ethics Education [PDF]
This study investigated the attitude of Romanian medical students and doctors toward business ethics by measuring the preference for a particular ethical philosophy, namely, the preference for Machiavellianism, moral objectivism, social Darwinism ...
George-Dumitru Constantin +7 more
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Moral Believer or Moral Problem-Solver? Moral Pragmatism Fosters Tolerance Without Impeding Moral Behavior [PDF]
Many previous studies in moral psychology have described people as moral believers, who treat morality as universal sacred beliefs and show moral outrage and social exclusion toward people with different opinions. At the same time, moral relativism tends
Li Zhang, Song Tong, Kaiping Peng
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Pluralismo para além do ceticismo: o problema da justificação moral [Moral pluralism beyond relativism: the moral justification issue] [PDF]
Um dos maiores problemas na ética contemporânea consiste em se e como é possível justificar um princípio moral capaz de garantir o pluralismo das várias concepções de bem em uma sociedade democrática sem acabar por defender um relativismo moral, tendo em
Flávia Carvalho Chagas
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The Theory of Planned Behaviour doesn't reveal 'attitude-behaviour' gap? Contrasting the effects of moral norms vs. idealism and relativism in predicting pro-environmental behaviours. [PDF]
Zaikauskaitė L +3 more
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Using Reidenbach and Robin’s Multidimensional Ethics Scale, this study designs three scenarios related to academic dishonesty (AD) dilemmas to explore students’ moral philosophies, behavioral intentions, and ethical judgments and further examines whether
Chiao Ling Huang +2 more
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Alasdair MacIntyre has developed a theory of virtue ethics that is closely integrated with sociology and organization studies. While rejecting reductive views of the virtues, MacIntyre appeals to their functional role in facilitating collaboration as a ...
Caleb Bernacchio, Caleb Bernacchio
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Exposure to moral relativism compromises moral behavior [PDF]
Keith J Holyoak
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A Study of Relativistic Theory of Ethics in the Light of Islamic Theory of Morality
Every civilization has a system of ethics that defines their values and morality. The basic concepts of "Good" and "Evil" are also derived from that system.
Muhammad Awais Shaukat, Tahira Basharat
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