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The Euthyphro Dilemma, Assisted Dying, and a Virtue Ethics Approach to Autonomy

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Euthyphro dilemma highlights that accounts of moral value which are dependent on the decisions of agents either result in arbitrary values arising from agent's decisions, or accept external reasons to morally justify the value, making the agent's decisions unnecessary for explaining the resulting value.
Thomas Donaldson
wiley   +1 more source

Contra el utilitarismo: el heterogéneo enfoque de los teóricos de la virtud [PDF]

Claridades: Revista de Filosofía, 2017
The current essay, belonging to the field of Normative Ethics, aims to offer a selection of relevant objections to Utilitarianism. The mentioned selection is presented by a series of authors related to the heterogeneous Virtue Ethics.
Gabriel Aragón Aranda
doaj  

When Is Social Value Proportionate to Research Risks?

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ethical human subjects research must have an acceptable risk‐benefit ratio, which requires that the net risks participants face be proportionate to the research's social value. Yet existing scholarship does not explain what makes risks proportionate to social value.
Robert Steel
wiley   +1 more source

UTILITARIANISM AND PRIORITARIANISM I [PDF]

Economics and Philosophy, 2006
Utilitarianism and prioritarianism make a strong assumption about measures of how good lotteries over histories are for individuals, or for short, individual goodness measures. Given some idealizing assumptions about interpersonal and intrapersonal comparisons, they presuppose that any individual goodness measure can be transformed into any other ...
openaire   +7 more sources

Improving the Ethical Permissibility of Medical Electives in Lower‐Resource Settings

Developing World Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a moral‐theoretical evaluation of medical electives, applying different frameworks of distributive justice to the phenomenon of healthcare students visiting countries with less access to resources in order to bolster their own learning.
Simon Paul Jenkins
wiley   +1 more source

Is Utilitarianism Bad for Women?

Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 2017
Is Utilitarianism Bad for Women? Philosophers and policy-makers concerned with the ethics, economics, and politics of development argue that the phenomenon of ‘adaptive preference’ makes preference-utilitarian measures of well-being untenable.
H. E. Baber
doaj   +1 more source

The power of a stewardship mind: Reorienting organizations around the duty to care to better address grand challenges

International Journal of Management Reviews, EarlyView.
Abstract The present article presents an integrative review related to stewardship in all the business and management disciplines, from its initial development in 1980 to the present. Specifically, we applied a latent Dirichlet allocation‐based topic modelling analysis to almost 1200 articles, seeking to creatively synthesize the concept of stewardship
Debora Casoli, Marco Visentin, Annamaria Tuan, Giuseppe Cappiello   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Non-Additive Axiologies in Large Worlds

Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
Is the overall value of a world just the sum of values contributed by each value-bearing entity in that world? Additively separable axiologies (like total utilitarianism, prioritarianism, and critical level views) say 'yes', but non-additive axiologies ...
Christian Tarsney, Teruji Thomas
doaj   +2 more sources

How not to argue about immigration [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2013
This paper describes and assesses the arguments offered both against closed borders and in favor of a more open borders approach to U.S. immigration reform as those arguments are set forth in R.
Corlett Angelo J., Unger Kimberly
doaj   +1 more source

The Legalist Paradigm in Moral and Political Thought

Constellations, EarlyView.
Jamie Mayerfeld
wiley   +1 more source