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Personhood: An emergent view from Africa and the West. [PDF]
Dev World BioethAbstract African understandings of personhood are complex, with different accounts emphasizing distinct aspects of what it means to be a person. Some accounts stress excellence of character and performing well in social roles and relationships, while others focus on innate moral qualities of individuals independent of their conduct and character.
Jecker NS, Atuire CA.
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Study of Linda Zagzebski's Theological Approach to Moral Saints [PDF]
Comparative Theology, 2022 Linda Zagzebski is one of the philosophers working on the emotions and motivating dispositions of the saints. By expanding her theory of divine motivation, she tried to fill in an important gap in previous accounts about saintly life and show why ...
Aliasghar Hashemzadeh
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„A to se vyplatí!“ Morálka jako spolupráce?
Reflexe, 2021 The article is a polemics with those conceptions of the nature of morality which, based on an inquiry into the evolutionary origins of morality, locate its meaning in a society’s cooperation (backed by rules) for the purpose of joint success.
Ondřej Beran
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Can a single account of supererogation handle both finite and infinite cases?
Philosophical Studies, 2023 Discussions of supererogation usually focus on cases in which the agent can choose among a finite number of options. However, Daniel Muñoz has recently shown that cases in which the agent faces an infinite chain of increasingly less good options make ...
Holly M. Smith
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Energy Reports, 2022 The paper aims to study the impact of the development of science and technology finance (STF) on energy consumption intensity (ECI) in 30 Chinese provinces, based on Chinese provincial panel data from 2012 to 2019.
Rui Ding +4 more
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Three Paradoxes of Supererogation [PDF]
, 2021 Supererogatory acts—good deeds “beyond the call of duty”—are a part of moral common sense, but conceptually puzzling. I propose a unified solution to three of the most infamous puzzles: the classic Paradox of Supererogation (if it’s so good, why isn’t it
Muñoz, Daniel
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What Does it Mean to call God Good?
The Heythrop Journal, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 503-516, July 2023., 2023 Contemporary expositions of God's goodness commonly err either (1) by subjecting God to moral laws, which is to question His sovereignty, or (2) by failing to establish that God will always act in accordance with moral principles, which removes the theist's ability to appeal to God's goodness in response to problems of evil.
Philip Peter Sivyer
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Forgiveness and the Novelty of Christian Ethics
Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 472-489, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Christian faith, and particularly Christian Ethics, must wrestle with the questions of novelty and continuity posed by Scripture's declaration that a new thing has occurred with the advent of Jesus Christ. The contrasting perspectives on the Law by Thomas Aquinas and Herman Bavinck focus these questions and suggest that forgiveness is an ...
Andrew Errington
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A Defense of Intrapersonal Belief Permissivism [PDF]
, 2021 Permissivism is the view that there are evidential situations that rationally permit more than one attitude toward a proposition. In this paper, I argue for Intrapersonal Belief Permissivism (IaBP): that there are evidential situations in which a single ...
Jackson, Elizabeth
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