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Partiality, Asymmetries, and Morality's Harmonious Propensity
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 109, Issue 1, Page 30-54, July 2024.Abstract We argue for asymmetries between positive and negative partiality. Specifically, we defend four claims: i) there are forms of negative partiality that do not have positive counterparts; ii) the directionality of personal relationships has distinct effects on positive and negative partiality; iii) the extent of the interactions within a ...
Benjamin Lange, Joshua Brandt
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Commonsense morality and contact with value
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 109, Issue 1, Page 410-430, July 2024.Abstract There seem to be many kinds of moral duties. We should keep our promises; we should pay our debts of gratitude; we should compensate those we've wronged; we should avoid doing or intending harm; we should help those in need. These constitute, some worry, an unconnected heap of duties: the realm of commonsense morality is a disorganized mess ...
Adam Lovett, Stefan Riedener
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Resuscitation during the pandemic: Optional obligation? or supererogation?
, 2020 This paper is a response to a recent BMJ Blog: ‘The duty to treat: where do the limits lie?’ Members of the Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Service Clinical Ethics Group (CEG) reflected on arguments in the Blog in relation to resuscitation during the ...
J. Perkins +9 more
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Ass‐troll‐ogical Nashe: Revisiting Two Dangerous Comets and A Wonderful Prognostication
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 335-362, June 2024.Abstract This article revisits the authorship of and relationship between three mock‐prognostications published pseudonymously in 1591, drawing on contextual, bibliographical, and stylistical analysis to attribute Two Dangerous Comets and A Wonderful Prognostication to Thomas Nashe.
Rachel White, Brett Greatley‐Hirsch
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What normative terms mean and why it matters for ethical theory [PDF]
, 2015 This paper investigates how inquiry into normative language can improve substantive normative theorizing. First I examine two dimensions along which normative language differs: “strength” and “subjectivity.” Next I show how greater sensitivity to these ...
Silk, Alex
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Mercy : the concept and its moral standing [PDF]
, 1991 Despite its high moral evaluation in both secular and religious worlds, philosophers have surprisingly paid relatively little attention to mercy. The discussion that has developed has produced an image of mercy that is to say the least, equivocal ...
Brien, Andrew James
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On the Ethicality of Islamic Banks’ Business Model
British Journal of Management, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 115-136, January 2024.Abstract This paper scrutinizes the ethicality of Islamic banks’ (IBs’) business model by employing the ‘objectives of Islamic law’ (Maqāsid al‐Sharī’ah). This necessitates developing an ethical framework to construe two primary injunctions of Islamic finance, namely ribā and gharar.
Wahyu Jatmiko +2 more
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Deontic Moral Reasoning Task: Is Moral Reasoning Special?
Psychological Topics, 2019 Domain theory suggests that moral rules and conventions are perceived differently and elicit a different response. A special procedure was designed to test this hypothesis in a laboratory setting using a deontic reasoning task.
Mislav Sudić +2 more
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J. S. Mill and Robert Veatch’s Critique of Utilitarianism [PDF]
, 1985 Modern bioethics is clearly dominated by deontologists who believe that we have some way of identifying morally correct and incorrect acts or rules besides taking account of their consequences. Robert M.
Edwards, Rem B.
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Infinite Responsibility: An expression of Saintliness [PDF]
In this paper I will focus my attention in the distinctions embedded in standard moral philosophy, especially in the philosophy of Kant between, on the one hand, duty and supererogation on the other hand, with the aim to contrast them with the Levinas’s ...
Conceição Soares
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