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Interpreting Hobbes’s Moral Theory: Rightness, Goodness, Virtue, and Responsibility

تأملات اخلاقی, 2021
The paper argues that the moral philosophy of Thomas Hobbes is unified by a complex conception of reason that imposes consistency norms of both rationality and reasonableness.
S. A. LLOYD
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SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND ETHICS: THE BOYLE LECTURE 2019

Zygon, 2019
How do we and should we decide what is morally right and what is morally wrong? For much of human history, the teachings of religion were presumed to provide either the answer, or much of the answer. Over time, two developments challenged this.
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Correct path-integral formulation of quantum thermal field theory in coherent-state representation

, 2005
The path-integral quantization of thermal scalar, vector and spinor fields is performed newly in the coherent-state representation. In doing this, we choose the thermal electrodynamics and $\phi ^4$ theory as examples.
A.L. Fetter, C. Itzykson, D. Lurie, J.I. Kapusta, J.W. Negele, L.D. Faddeev, L.S. Schulman, Su Jun-Chen, Zheng Fu-Hou   +8 more
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The Virtue of Solidarity: Reinterpreting Charity in Mujerista Theology

Religions
Theologians have a moral responsibility to attend to the grave disorder in which the language of morality currently suffers. I argue that the healing of this disorder involves a morally prescribable disloyalty to the semblance of the virtue of charity ...
Amanda Rachel Bolaños
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A Defence Of An Institutional Analysis Of Art [PDF]

, 2009
An institutional analysis of art posits the theory that works of art are classified as such not by virtue of their exhibited properties, but rather by virtue of their relational ones, and more specifically by virtue of their place within an institutional
Hemsley, Elizabeth
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Why Mary Astell's Theory of Virtue is Not Inconsistent

Locke Studies
There is an apparent inconsistency at the heart of Mary Astell’s theory of virtue, for she seems committed to contradictory propositions: (1) that virtue involves alignment of all passions with their proper objects; and (2) that virtue involves the ...
Samuel C. Rickless
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The concept of pro-environmental organisation vs. environmental virtue theory

Economics and Environment
Global climate threats require changes in behaviour and lifestyles to promote sustainable consumption and production. This is particularly true for business organisations and may involve the adoption of practices based on environmental virtues.
Marek Bugdol, Tadeusz Borys, Daniel Puciato   +2 more
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ECONOMICS, PSYCHOLOGY AND HAPPINESS: VIRTUE THEORY VS. SLAVERY OF THE PASSIONS [PDF]

The truth of any economic theory ultimately hinges on the truth of its philosophy of man. In this essay I will analyze modern economic thought from two perspectives: firstly, from its criticism and development by experimental psychology; secondly, from ...
Oskari Juurikkala
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Habit, Choice, and Action

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In Creature dell’abitudine. Abito, costume, seconda natura da Aristotele alle scienze cognitive, Marco Piazza argues that, for Aristotle, habit stabilizes human action, making it regular, albeit contingent and voluntary. Drawing on his interpretation,
Masi, Francesca
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Causal Theory of Reference of Saul Kripke [PDF]

Since the 1960s, Kripke has been a central figure in several fields related to mathematical logic, language philosophy, mathematical philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology and set theory.
Sfetcu, Nicolae
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