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St. Augustine and the Problem of Deception in Religious Persuasion [PDF]
A substantial body of literature has been produced in the twentieth century by religious and philosophical writers on the ethics of belief. Discussion of this topic has generally focused on the processes leading up to belief within the individual, so ...
Brinton, Alan
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Fichte's Deduction of the Moral Law [PDF]
It is often assumed that Fichte's aim in Part I of the System of Ethics is to provide a deduction of the moral law, the very thing that Kant – after years of unsuccessful attempts – deemed impossible. On this familiar reading, what Kant eventually viewed
Ware, Owen
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Clifford, William Kingdon [PDF]
W.K. Clifford’s famous 1876 essay The Ethics of Belief contains one of the most memorable lines in the history of philosophy: "it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence." The challenge to religious ...
Oliveira, Luis R. G.
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There is a case to be made for the contention that it is a virtue to have a disposition to try to conform to W. K. Clifford’s ethics of belief. The arguments are not Clifford’s own but new deductive ones.
Zamulinski, Brian
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Introduction: Towards an Ethics of Mind [PDF]
This chapter locates our overall approach within the dialectic of contemporary philosophical debates and provides an overall framework for discussion. First, I introduce the problem of mental normativity.
Schmidt, Sebastian
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Martyr Motahhari on the Ethics of Belief [PDF]
The term of ethics of belief is appeared for the first time in Clifford's well-known essay by the same title in 1876.According to Clifford's saying that became known afterwards as Clifford's Credo or Principle "It is wrong always, everywhere, and for ...
Majid Mollayousefi +2 more
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Clifford's Ethic of Belief and Maximum Extreme Reasoning [PDF]
The deontological epistemic approach was a reaction to the foundationalism approach that advocated the existence of basic or self-justified beliefs. Descartes, skeptical of any kind of knowledge, provided the first foundations for such an approach.
Ghasem Pourhassan, Afsaneh Pandjoo
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Ethical guidance in research is underpinned by the need to show respect for study participants by upholding autonomy in participant decision-making, and confidentiality and protection of individual rights, privacy and interests, yet decision-making could
S Singh
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In this paper, earnings management is analyzed in the light of stakeholder theory in order to evaluate earnings management ethics. The main reasons for using earnings management are studied and systematically arranged in the context of stakeholder ...
Milda Striupaitytė, Diana Bachtijeva
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