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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Moral Justification"”.
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Moral Authority as Moral Skill: An Exemplarist Theory of Practical Justification
How should we understand the question "Why be moral?" Can we answer this question? If so, how? In this paper I develop an exemplarist theory of practical moral justification; that is, a theory of the justification of the prima facie moral things that we do, not the moral beliefs that we have. I …
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Making the Case for War: The War Rhetoric of Presidents George H. W. Bush, William J. Clinton, and George W. Bush
… of the “Rogue State”, each president made a moral justification for military intervention. An examination of the situation in each country before, during, and after the military action shows that while the presidential rhetoric was the same, the connection between the rhetoric and the facts …
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From intellectualism to contextualism to metaethical realism : an exploration of our ethical language-games and their conditions of intelligibility
… formative impact on modern academic accounts of moral rationality and ethical deliberation. The thematic focal points of my essay will be intellectualism, the problem of ethnocentrism, the absolutist-relativist dichotomy, and the relevance of human embodiment for conceptions of moral …
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Coherentism in moral epistemology: moral science or elaborate intuitionism?
: Moral foundationalists maintain that among our moral beliefs there are some that are justified non-inferentially by something other than just more beliefs. Also, that all of the other beliefs in the system can trace their chain of justification back to members of this special ‘epistemically …
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ADVANCING COMMUNICATION OF MEDICAL ERROR: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN TRANSGRESSION AND TRANSPARENCY
… due to preventable errors. There is robust moral justification for communication of errors to patients who have been harmed and to their loved ones. Physician-patient relationships depend upon truthfulness to maintain the trust that is essential to the delivery of effective medical care. In …
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Gender Quotas for Corporate Boards: A Holistic Analysis
… their enactment. Advocates further gloss over a moral justification rooted in a broad notion of equality, although more heavily relying on empirical claims. This article demonstrates how empirical rationales in support of gender quotas are unconvincing. Economic evidence is ultimately …
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Soldiers, Self-Defense, and Killing in War
… War-Pacifists disagree on whether soldiers are morally justified in killing each other in wartime combat. Many of their respective arguments, and their contradictory conclusions, are based upon principles of self-defense. In this thesis, I examine the role that principles of self-defense play in …
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Public Health Disasters: A Global Ethical Framework
… end, the dissertation employs context-specific moral lenses to engage each of these representative problems. It thereafter uses the common threads, moral quandaries and the relational nexus around the overlapping issues to frame a global ethic as a normative lens for engaging public health …
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Moral competence and the psychopath.
Various theories of moral judgment have been proposed in light of recent empirical research in cognitive neuroscience and moral psychology. Some of the evidence is thought to indicate that emotional and intuitive processes are primarily responsible for moral judgement. There is also evidence to …
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Kant, Skepticism, and Moral Sensibility
… that feeling has a pos- itive role to play in moral life. But the exact nature of this role is far from clear. As much as Kant insists that moral action must proceed from a feeling of respect, he maintains with equal insistence that the objective basis of acting from duty must come from …
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Role of Trauma in Social-Cognitive Adjustment Strategies and Moral Disengagement among African-American Urban Youth
… solving, and lead youth to disengage their moral controls (Ng-Mak, Salzinger, Feldman, & Stueve, 2002). The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of trauma and adjustment strategies among African American urban youth and how moral disengagement can be averted via mediation by the …
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What is, is what ought to be: Providence and Benjamin Morgan Palmer’s public theology
… the inductive method of reasoning. Palmer found moral justification for his public theology in the occurrence of events, generally adopting a ‘what is, is also what ought to be’ basis for ethical judgements on matters pertaining to<br/>government and society. In Palmer’s view, the pastor occupied …
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Persons and partiality: limitations on consequentialist justifications
… the treatment of enemy combatants, or is it morally justified for the authorities to violate some human rights in order to make everyone safer? Some moral theorists are committed to the claim that using torture for the greater good is not only permissible but also obligatory. One of the key …
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Vahingonkorvausoikeuden periaatteet
… should have institutional support and be morally and/or politically justified. In the study, the requirement of institutional support is given a substantial interpretation: in order to have institutional support, a principle should justify legal rules. A principle's institutional support …
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American Apotheosis: Ceramics and the Production of National Identity in Post-Revolutionary New York City
… demonizes diversity, and has provided the moral justification for everything from Manifest Destiny to the January 6 insurrection. This study concludes by applying the findings of this analysis to the present day, suggesting how they might be used in addressing the precarious context of …
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The relationship between knowledge and power in the work of Amitav Ghosh
… way in colonized countries, and also provided a moral justification for imperial nations to continue their exploitation of Asia and Africa. Yet, through the character of Balaram, Ghosh demonstrates that science was reshaped in the Indian context. Chapter Two focuses on Ghosh's treatment of space …
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Discursive (in)stability: Moral subjectivities and global hierarchies in transnational migrant women’s narratives
… in transnational migrants’ construction of moral and national identities for themselves, focusing on the case of women from Uzbekistan living in the United States. While research has highlighted how transnational movement destabilizes identity and communicative practice, I focus on the ways …
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Paying the Penalty: The Role of Punishment in Theories of Justified Civil Disobedience
<p>The problem of civil disobedience and its justification has received a great deal of attention in the past decade, and it seems safe to say that a consensus of sorts has been reached with respect to the basic questions of (i) whether such dissent can be morally justified in a legitimate …
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Uncertainty and utilitarian moral decision-making
… psychology and neuroscience has explored moral utilitarian research questions, decision mechanisms and behaviour. For example, in the question ‘Is it appropriate for you to sacrifice one workman in order to save five workmen?’ moral utilitarian theorists (consequentialism) would answer …
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One Bad Apple: Introducing the Study of iSR-CSR Dissatisfaction Relationship to Moral Disengagement
… seminal report, “Why employees do bad things: Moral disengagement and unethical organizational behavior” (Moore et al., 2012), I present evidence that corporations should seek to understand and satisfy the social responsibility commitments of their employees. Introducing iSR-CSR Satisfaction …