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Deontic Moral Reasoning Task: Is Moral Reasoning Special?

open access: yesPsychological 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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Supererogation and Consequentialism

open access: yes, 2020
The thought that acts of supererogation exist presents a challenge to all normative ethical theories. This chapter will provide an overview of the consequentialist responses to this challenge.
Alfred Archer
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mill’s Moral Standard [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A book chapter (about 7,000 words, plus references) on the interpretation of Mill’s criterion of right and wrong, with particular attention to act utilitarianism, rule utilitarianism, and sanction utilitarianism.
Eggleston, Ben
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Heroism as Moral Paradox [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Often involving sacrifice, heroism is not easily understandable in secular ethical theory, e.g. in Utilitarian, Deontological or Virtue Theory. The consequences of heroism may be useful or not; heroic actions are not duties; and heroism is neither a ...
Eveleth, Lois M
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Infinite Responsibility: An expression of Saintliness [PDF]

open access: yes
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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Scalar consequentialism the right way [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The rightness and wrongness of actions fits on a continuous scale. This fits the way we evaluate actions chosen among a diverse range of options, even though English speakers don’t use the words “righter” and “wronger”.
Sinhababu, Neil
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Green Finance and Green Total Factor Productivity: Impact Mechanisms, Threshold Characteristics, and Spatial Effects

open access: yesSAGE Open
Investing in green total factor productivity is the key to realizing high-quality economic development in China. Can green finance effectively enhance green total factor productivity and promote high-quality economic development?
Lingui Qin, Songqi Liu, Fengjie Xie
doaj   +1 more source

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