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Ordinary Morality Implies Atheism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
I present a "moral argument" for the nonexistence of God. Theism, I argue, can’t accommodate an ordinary and fundamental moral obligation acknowledged by many people, including many theists.
Maitzen, Stephen
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Patient-Relativity in Morality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
It is common to distinguish moral rules, reasons, or values that are agent-relative from those that are agent-neutral. One can also distinguish moral rules, reasons, or values that are moment-relative from those that are moment-neutral.
Hammerton, Matthew
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Die einde van die moraal? 'n Beginning oor die lotgevalle van die moraal in die (post)moderne samelewing

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2001
The end of morality? Reflections on the fate of morality in (post)modern society. True morality, so it is argued, relates to a sense of reality. This implies an openness towards the Other, towards that which transcends our own subjectivity, our emotions ...
Marinus Schoeman
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Internal goods to legal practice: reclaiming fuller with macintyre [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Lon Fuller rejected legal positivism because he believed that the ‘procedural morality of law’ established a necessary connection between law and morals. Underpinning his argument is a claim that law is a purposive activity grounded by a relationship of
Retter, Mark
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Moral dilemmas for moral machines [PDF]

open access: yesAI and Ethics, 2022
Autonomous systems are being developed and deployed in situations that may require some degree of ethical decision-making ability. As a result, research in machine ethics has proliferated in recent years. This work has included using moral dilemmas as validation mechanisms for implementing decision-making algorithms in ethically-loaded situations ...
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Delegating and Distributing Morality: Can We Inscribe Privacy Protection in a Machine? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper addresses the question of delegation of morality to a machine, through a consideration of whether or not non-humans can be considered to be moral. The aspect of morality under consideration here is protection of privacy.
Adam, AE
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THE PROBLEM OF OPENNESS OF THE SYSTEM OF SOCIAL MORALITY

open access: yesAntropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2014
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the specificity of the openness of the system of social morality to influence of the various phenomena of natural and social being.
V. V. Nadurak
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Ethics and morality in Dworkin's political philosophy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Dworkin`s political theory is characterized by the interpretative integrity of morality, law, and politics, the so-called “hedgehog’s approach”. The interpretative integrity approach functions on multiple levels. Firstly, philosophical foundations of his
Vujadinović, Dragica
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Craig on God and Morality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In this paper we critically evaluate an argument put forward by William Lane Craig for the existence of God based on the assumption that if there were no God, there could be no objective morality.
Rectenwald, Michael, Smythe, Thomas W.
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Morality, Adapted [PDF]

open access: yesPerspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2010
Over the last few decades, scientists have been busy debunking the myth that nonhuman animals relate to each other in a primarily competitive, aggressive way. What they have found is that many species of animal, including many of those most closely related to humans, display a remarkable range of cooperative, "prosocial" behavior.
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