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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Moral Relativism"”.
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Moral relativism and reasons for action
There are many varieties of moral relativism. Appraiser relativism, according to which the proposition expressed by a moral sentence varies from context to context, is motivated by the thought that it provides the best explanation of the intractability of fundamental moral disagreements. In …
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Towards the Development of a Belief in Moral Relativism Scale
Although moral relativism has a long history in the philosophical tradition, the study of psychological, individual differences in the construct has occurred only recently. In both philosophy and psychology the construct has been defined in a variety of ways that often differ from one other. While …
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Relativism in Democracy. Response to a new form of political theology
… within this framework as guardians of the moral principles democratic societies supposedly need in order to survive. This is reflected by a discursive shift in the rhetoric employed by such organizations: over the past few decades we have witnessed the rise of a new religious discourse …
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Thinking for yourself: A more personal and particular approach to Kantian ethics
… responsive to the particular context of our moral choices. Yet one might fear that if Kantian ethics tries to make room for particularity in our moral judgments, it may also make room for so many exceptions to the principles of morality that it will lead to the sort of moral relativism that …
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Leadership and ethics : a comparative study of leader moral values and organizational culture
… of recent and highly visible scandals, the moral and ethical culture associated with contemporary organizational life is not often discussed in either the academic literature or in the popular managerial writings. The intent of this thesis is to examine the challenge I believe moral …
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The Zhuangzi and Nourishing Xin: Causes of Strife, Positive Ideals of Caring for Living, and Therapeutic Linguistic Practice
… text has been accused of supporting a variety of moral or epistemic positions, including moral relativism, transcendental mysticism, skepticism, anarchism, and anti-societal asceticism. Against these interpretations I demonstrate the text has a complex but coherent diagnosis of human suffering in …
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Pierre'o Manent'o iššūkis Ronaldo Dworkino žmogaus teisių sampratai /
… critique of modern positivist thought and its moral relativism, as articulated in the works of American legal theorist Ronald Dworkin and French political philosopher Pierre Manent, has prompted these philosophers to engage in a polemic regarding natural human rights. The paper contends that …
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Thinking as a Mere Citizen of the World: Kantian Morality in a Pluralist Frame
This dissertation argues that Kantian morality is more compatible with cultural pluralism than has thus far been acknowledged. Cultural pluralism denotes a normative commitment to the idea that we ought to uphold diversity and protect the rights of individuals within a given society to hold a …
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Self-deception and moral blindness in the modern corporation
… that self-deception can help to facilitate moral blindness in the context of the modem corporation. It contends that individuals are capable of suppressing knowledge or beliefs regarding truths that they prefer not to face, and that this self-deceptive process is aided by systemic and …
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The theory of communicative action and the aesthetic moment: Habermas and the (neo)Nietzschean challenge
… potential to reach understandings about our moral-practical problems and our aesthetic-expressive disagreements that could serve as the foundation for a democratically negotiated politics of action. Habermas takes exception to those thinkers .. such as Nietzsche and his heirs - who have …
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The Unforgiving Margin in the Fiction of Christopher Isherwood
… Patrick's journey and the implicit peril of the moral relativism endorsed by Vedanta. Patrick is nothing more than a con artist. And finally, Chapter 4 examines Isherwood's finest novel, A Single Man, the story of George, who is left alone after the death of his lover, Jim. Isherwood's …