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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Ethical theories"”.
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Fully moral artificial agents: future or fiction
… by examining the intersection of machine ethics, ethical theories, and deep learning. The central focus is on assessing the compatibility of ethical theories with the rapid advancements in technology, particularly the potential development of fully moral artificial agents. The aim of this thesis …
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Against Natural Teleology and its Application in Ethical Theory
Many ethical theories depend on the existence of natural teleology as a source of normativity. Natural Teleology, the purposive goal-directedness of non-conscious biological processes, is also embraced to some degree by a majority of philosophers of biology who agree that the teleological concepts …
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The Ethics of Care of the Self as Resistance to a “Peculiar Institution”
… discusses some of the critiques of modern moral theories (deontology, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics) posed by Elizabeth Anscombe, Michael Stocker, Bernard Williams, and Susan Wolf. It focuses on Stocker’s challenge that when subjects try to act on such theories they become self-effacing in …
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Charity as a Foundation of Ethics
… in contemporary ethics. Though our dominant ethical theories always mention love at some point, they seldom give it the seat of honor. This dissertation, then, is an argument that they should: that our ethical theories, secular ones included, should be founded on love. Perhaps that sounds …
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The ‘Ought’ of Flourishing in Elizabeth Anscombe’s ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’ and Philippa Foot’s Natural Goodness
… the prevailing, yet (what she deemed) faulty, ethical theories of her day towards a virtue-based ethical naturalism (which, I argue, can be extrapolated from her notion of ‘brute facts’) is the starting point of what has come to be known as the Aretaic Turn. Philippa Foot, a friend and …
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Divorce: A matter of rights and responsibilities
… Recognizing the underlying political and ethical theories that have shaped our culture, and turning the focus away from one of limiting divorce to one of improving the circumstances of children of divorce may be the first steps in creating national-level public policy that can positively …
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The Justification of Deontology
… to the three established deontological normative ethical theories: Rossian intuitionism, Kantianism, and Neo-Thomism. In each of these chapters, I lay out the relevant portion of the view’s deontological apparatus, analyzing it both for its plausibility as a whole and for its ability to justify …
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Against moral unconditionalism
… that are notable representatives of three major ethical theories (utilitarianism, divine command theory, and libertarianism, respectively). By criticizing their arguments for moral unconditionalism, I hope to show that moral unconditionalism is neither as justified nor as obvious as many people …
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Casuistry: Towards a More Complete Approach
… reason to believe that universal and absolute ethical principles do not exist. Rather due to epistemic and metaphysical concerns, ethical reasoning is believed to be intrinsically case-based. After taking several chapters to examine key particularist arguments, I then argue that, contrary to …
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Virtue Ethics and Corporate Governance
… governance. AVT differs from the other two ethical theories because it focuses on the importance of a good character for the making and carrying out of sound ethical judgments. It assumes that human nature contains the seeds of ethics and that a good character can develop over time with the …
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The particular and the general : essays at the interface of ethics and epistemology
… Chapter 2 concerns a problem arising for certain theories that take the opposite extreme of particularism and posit a fully general theory of what one ought to believe or do. In the epistemic realm, one such theory is process reliabilism. A well-known difficulty for process reliabilism is the …
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Building the Bridge from Bench to Bedside: Ethical Issues in Translational Stem Cell Research
… stem cell research raises many interesting ethical questions, which have, to a greater or lesser degree, been debated at an international as well as at an interdisciplinary level. Nevertheless, there is still no international consensus regarding how a number of ethical questions related to …
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A selfless response to an illusory world : a comparative study of Śāntideva and Śaṅkara
This thesis compares the ethical theories of two 8th century Indian philosophers, Śāntideva and Śaṅkara. In order to construct their ethics from philosophical premises, a metaphysical approach has been taken. A comparison of these two philosophers has never been made, nor has there been any major …
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Wert, Rechtheit and Gut. Adolf Reinach’s Contribution to Early Phenomenological Ethics
… phenomenologists in the development of their ethical theories; and, ultimately, that they were and remain valuable additions to the field, discussing value-theory, the problem ofnormativity, motivation, freedom and responsibility, and more. This thesis comprises two parts. Part one examines …
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Corporate environmental policy and the ethical values of individual managers: Exploring the connection at Royal Dutch Shell
… an analytical framework, drawing on appropriate ethical theories that will facilitate exploration of the perceptions, beliefs, and feelings that corporate managers have toward corporate environmental responsibility (CER). It will enable the identification of the relationship, if any, between …
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An assessment of the need for an explicit environmental ethical component in environmental education in Zambia
… of the need for an explicit environmental ethical component in environmental education in Zambia. Lack of personal interest in issues concerning the environment, even among the elite and the learned population, has caused considerable concern over the years. The exclusive economic approach …
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An assessment of the need for an explicit environmental ethical component in environmental education in Zambia
… of the need for an explicit environmental ethical component in environmental education in Zambia. Lack of personal interest in issues concerning the environment, even among the elite and the learned population, has caused considerable concern over the years. The exclusive economic approach …
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Traditional Islamic Ethics: The Concept of Spiritual Virtue and its Implications for Contemporary Human Rights
… popular human rights histories and contemporary ethical theories that attempt to justify human rights. In doing so, it argues that the debate is still ongoing and therefore, the exclusion of any alternative visions is unjustified. Thus, the goal of the first section is to create a space of …
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Examining teacher and learner perceptions on the ethical challenges of generative AI (gen AI) in transforming teaching and learning practices : a mixed methods study
… of teachers and learners regarding the ethical challenges posed by Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in shaping teaching and learning practices within the United Kingdom’s Further Education (FE) sector. Although ethical debates surrounding AI in education increasingly address …
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Does the police service need a values-based decision-making model: if so, what should that model look like?
… it was apparent policing reflected various ethical theories at different times. However the service slanted towards the deontological. This position which argues this was reflected within interviews undertaken for the research. From the data, conclusions were drawn that policing was …
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