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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Ethics and Political Philosophy"”.
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International Trade: A Justice Approach
… international trade regime is flawed, unjust and in need of redress. It largely ignores concerns for global economic justice, and fails those most in need of a strategy to help them move out of extreme poverty. It exacerbates inequalities, both between states in global society and within …
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The Limits of Rationality: Suicidality, Affectivity, and the Rational
<p>In this project, I expose conceptual and moral difficulties with the concept of rational suicide. After offering a comprehensive list of criteria used to define rationality in the bioethics literature, I turn to the scholarship of Susan Sherwin, Susan Wolf, Rosemarie Tong, Lisa Ikemoto and …
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Global Distributive Justice After Rawls: A Modified Poggean Argument for How We Harm the World's Poorest
… poverty as presented in <italic>World Poverty and Human Rights</italic>. It begins by situating the project of Pogge relative to the work of his predecessor John Rawls. It then moves on to compare Pogge's negative-duty approach to more common positive-duty approaches by discussing the relative …
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Corporations as Group Agents / Responsible Collectives in Theory and in Practice
… philosophical literature on group agency and collective responsibility and to demonstrate that this literature fails to sufficiently address the hierarchical organization of corporations, thereby severely limiting the applicability of this literature to real-world business situations. …
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Thinking Through the Phenomenon of Trust: A Philosophical Investigation
… as a topic of serious investigation in Western philosophy. This dissertation investigates the integral role that trust plays in enabling and sustaining meaning and significance in human existence. This thesis is substantiated in the following ways.</p><p>First, I explicate various senses and …
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Ontology in Emmanuel Levinas's Philosophy
… the notion of the il y a, its prehistory and eventual fate, as an index of the development of the problem of being in Levinas's work, this thesis argues that Levinas's philosophy does not respond to a consistently articulated problem. He eventually transforms ontological evil into social …
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Scanlon's Contractualism and Its Critics
… theory: explaining how moral judgments are made and why agents generally act according to these judgments. After reviewing the nature of constructivist moral theories to show why I chose to focus on Scanlon’s theory, I assess how effectively it fulfills these two roles. I argue that the concept …
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An Experiential Approach to Kant's Moral Philosophy: A Reply to Dogmatism, Formalism and Rigorism
<p>Many of Kant's commentators and critics interpret his moral philosophy solely in terms of the cognitive dimension of his categorical imperative. Such a predominant manner of reading Kant gives rise to the criticism that his moral philosophy is too far removed from the actual way in which human …
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Restoring the Balance: Setting Aside Naturalism in Favor of Personhood in Extreme Cases
… These children are born with only a brain stem, and, as such, cannot experience any type of consciousness. If personhood is understood as an articulable moral category, particularly distinct from DNA membership, reasonable evidence would be required to attribute any such moral category in these …
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Moral Philosophy and the Art of Silence
… claim that silence is part of moral life. Moral philosophy must make every attempt to bring within it all that is part of moral life. The dissertation produces a methodology for learning how to see some of the silences that I claim for moral life and it shows the importance of silence to …
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Kant's Change of Heart: Radical Evil and Moral Transformation
… all humans are radically evil, both by nature and through a free choice. This radical evil, which is the state of having a Gesinnung (disposition) that commits oneself to prioritizing incentives of inclination above incentives of duty, throws into question whether humans can ever become morally …
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Black Horror Film and the Role of Mood in Race Perception
… on the intuition that art cannot change the political realities of antiblackness and/or our relationships with blackness. In this dissertation, I resist this hegemonic view by arguing that black horror films generate a particular, politically-valuable aesthetic experience. Specifically, they …
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Mindful Mending: The Repair of Thought and Action Amidst Technologies
<p>My thesis is that the concept and practice of repair, properly understood and circumscribed, can serve to: (1) specify a responsibility to care for individuals who are cognitively dependent on particular configurations of technologies and suffer cognitively significant harms following damage to …
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Authenticity as Compassionate Being in the World
… on what it means to be authentic in the world and how a person can cultivate an authentic being. I will argue that being authentic leads to a healthier self that lives her life to its fullest potential and how being authentic will result in a more compassionate and ethical self.</p>
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A Volitional Theory of Aesthetic Value
… agents to engage in valuing particular objects and practices. This valuing is an act of the will; we orient ourselves alongside certain reasons.</p> <p>The volitional theory is meant to respond to a crisis in contemporary aesthetic theories of value. The standard Humean theory of aesthetic value …
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Inexorable Burden: Rhetoric and Togetherness
<p>This dissertation employs philology and cultural analysis to reassess longstanding notions in rhetorical theory and moral philosophy (via classical rhetoric and technical communication). In particular, I use diachronic analyses of the terms telos, symbouleutikon, and sympheron (from Aristotle to …
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To the Effort Itself: A Phenomenological Study of Wang Yangming's 王陽明 Theory of Moral Effort
… related to consciousness, which are also topics and phenomena studied by Wang’s philosophy.</p>
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