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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Consequentialism"”.
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Convergence or Consequentialism: A study of health policy towards drug users in two countries.
This study centres on the changes which have taken place in the area of health policy towards intravenous drug users over the past two decades; the relationship between competing perspectives in policy and the impact of AIDS on that policy. To illustrate this, policy perspectives in two countries …
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Borderline duties and fuzzy values: An analysis of vagueness in ethics
… that the problem of overdemanding obligation in consequentialism within normative ethics is fundamentally a problem of vagueness in the specific sense in which the issue is treated within the philosophy of logic and language. This realisation leads to a substantial reframing of the question with …
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Law's Legitimacy: Lon Fuller in a Consequentialist Frame
… this regard, despite Fuller’s own resistance to consequentialism and despite consequentialism’s blindness to some of Fuller’s depth and texture. This thesis supplies a formula, although one intended only as a guide to thinking, not for actual computation, to drive judicial decision-making. The …
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The Role of Ethical Evaluation of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Perception of Corporate Hypocrisy, the Intention of Opinioned Communication and Behavior toward a Firm
… With special attention to deontology and consequentialism in normative ethics of philosophy, the current study was to empirically test a theoretical model of perceived corporate hypocrisy with two causal antecedents (i.e., the evaluation of self-orientation and other-orientation in CSR), …
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The Impact of Open Theism on C. Peter Wagner's Philosophy of Discipleship
… cooperationism, and commissional pragmatic consequentialism. Chapter 1 introduces the need for the research. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 articulate Wagner’s primary theological dispositions concerning the doctrine of God throughout his career (1952–2016). Chapter 5 provides the research conclusions …
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Agent-based ethical decision-making control optimization framework for self-driving vehicles
… rule-based mathematical concepts, whereas consequentialism parallels cost-based mathematical concepts. The virtue ethics philosophical principle is also used to motivate the different weightings of path tracking, obstacle avoidance, and traffic regulation compliance. The consequences of …
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Permit or Prohibit: An enquiry into the morality of illegal drugs and into their legalisation and decriminalisation
… is used, namely relativism, Kant’s deontology, consequentialism and virtue ethics. Included here was an assessment of the views of the public on the matter. Research of documentary evidence showed that some European countries had better drug policy outcomes than most. These countries were …
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The structure of virtue ethics.
… be revised to allow for different sorts of non-consequentialism within a broader class of teleological theories. The foundation of the first form of virtue ethics is happiness, thus resembling standard consequentialist theories. However, it differs from such theories in three ways: first, virtue …
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The Impact of Open Theism on C. Peter Wagner's Philosophy of Discipleship
… cooperationism, and commissional pragmatic consequentialism. The present chapter introduces the need for the research. Chapter 2 serves as an excursus on the history and culture of American evangelicalism (1900–1930) and the early developmental years (1930–1952) of C. Peter Wagner. Chapters …
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Audience Segmentation Ethics in Health Promotion
… used. In conclusion, the study finds that non-consequentialism can be a useful tool to ensure the ethicality and effectiveness of audience segmentation in health promotion as it takes into consideration the intended and unintended effects health campaign may have on both intended and unintended …
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Machine Learning in Consumer Credit: Legal, Economic, Ethical & Policy Implications
… a novel approach to balancing tensions between consequentialism and deontology in the context of machine learning design. Chapter 4 presents a comparative legal analysis of the laws in the United States and United Kingdom that regulate the use of algorithmic decision-making in consumer credit. …
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Groundwork and Principles for Applied Conservatism
… Conservatism is compared with Hooker’s wary rule consequentialism and Aristotelian virtue ethics, and it is suggested, based on Annas and Lang, that our pursuit of good and evil could be understood as analogous to sporting and artistic endeavour. The surveys identify and the POCs make use of Five …
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CONTROLLED AND AUTOMATIC PROCESSES IN MORAL DECISION-MAKING
… emotioncognition, deontology-consequentialism) that, in Greene’s theory, are mapped one upon the other. I argue that the emotion-cognition distinction is not a useful theoretical tool; and I follow the theories of the education of moral intuitions proposed by Jillian Craigie …
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Exploring conflict: the justification of violence
… of conflict, four broad ethical approaches – consequentialism, deontology, contractarianism, and virtue ethics - and applied ethical writing relating to conflict–related harm-doing, including eg Just War Theory. The Model was then reviewed in terms of the literature and the literature in terms …
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Corporate environmental accountability in the Nigerian oil and gas industry: the case of gas flaring
… and the confirmatory empirical evidence that ‘consequentialism’ is the dominant environmental moral philosophy in the Nigerian upstream sector. The significance of the findings is further indicated by providing evidence that change in gas flaring-related environmental performance is responsible …
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The Criminal Law of the Free Society: A Philosophical Exploration of Overcriminalization and the Limits of the Criminal Law
… penal paternalism, penal moralism, and penal consequentialism – I argue that this two-principle model has the capacity to respond successfully to different forms of overcriminalization (chs.6-7).
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The Justification of Deontology
Agent-centered restrictions are widely accepted both in commonsense morality and across social and legal institutions, making it all the more striking that we have yet to ground them in a compelling theoretical rationale. This dissertation amounts to an effort to fill that gap by seeking out a new …
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Uncertainty and utilitarian moral decision-making
… save five workmen?’ moral utilitarian theorists (consequentialism) would answer with ‘Yes’, as utility maximisation and moral justification is achieved by the consequence of this moral decision (‘saving the greatest number’). Accordingly,psychologists have explored the psychological validity and …
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A study on the ethical structure of Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna: a critique of the consequentialist approach
In this thesis, I refute the consequentialist approach to Chinese Buddhism. This approach to Buddhist ethics has been popularized by scholars such as Charles Goodman in the last two decades. In a sense, they try to establish a systematic Buddhist ethical theory that can be applied to our daily …
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Second thoughts about double effect.
In this dissertation I explore objections to the ethical doctrine known as the Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE) and its applications to issues in war and medicine. DDE maintains that it is harder to justify causing harm intentionally than it is to justify causing it foreseeably. Some of the …