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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Moral Value"”.
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THE MORAL VALUE AND SELF-REGULATION OF RELATIONAL GOALS
… a new theoretical phenomenon that we call "moral potency," its connection to relational roles and relational goals, and the subsequent effect on self-regulation in relationships. Moral potency is defined as the product of the centrality of a goal to fulfilling the associated role and the …
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Elections Have Consequences: Moral Value Foundations Ensure Gridlock through the Ballot Box
… gridlock in Washington, research in moral psychology has implicated reliance on differing moral value foundations between liberals and conservatives as a determinant of partisan divides. While Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) research has highlighted the effect of moral values on a …
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The Benevolent Ideal Observer Theory
… an answer to what I call the central question of moral philosophy: what, if anything, is moral value? The answer, I argue, is that moral value is the relational property of eliciting a suitable response from a properly informed, rational, benevolent and otherwise minimal spectator. I call this …
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A gênese social dos valores morais no último Lukács
… debate in dealing with specifically moral problems, as they are enunciated by the obstacles of individuation developed by the new social relations, in addition to the opportunistic use of morality by neofascism, go back to the diagnosis of the hungarian philosopher György Lukács about …
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A reading of Nietzsche's Metaethics
… argues that Nietzsche held an error theory about moral value, but also that his metaethical stance with regards to other types of value is harder to characterize. A number of rival interpretations are also considered and rejected.
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An Exploration of Some Dimensions of the Valuing Behavior of Two Beginning Teachers of Science
… into the relationship between development in moral value reasoning as assessed by the Rest (1974), Defining Issues Test (DIT) and the valuing behavior of the teachers.
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Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben und D.F. Malherbe's Hans-die-skipper : ein Vergleich
… moribund semi-feudal system, they pre-empt the moral indifference of the market by positing a "new" value in absolute terms. In either case, this value is "industry", in both the economical and the moral sense of the term. This aspect of both texts is analysed in terms of the literary theory of …
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Social work, independent realities & the circle of moral considerability: Respect for humans, animals & the natural world
… it is that entitles an individual or entity to moral consideration, or as having moral status, is thoroughly anthropocentric, and is articulated in complete disregard of the context of our fundamental evolutionary continuity and our embeddedness within an evolving natural world, and flies in the …
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THE BELOVED COMMUNITY IN SHAW: CONSTRUCTING NARRATIVE IDENTITY IN THE ANTI-GENTRIFICATION MOVEMENT
… have long been fertile for the construction of value making narratives. Social movements rely heavily on the publicly acknowledged moral value of their causes for legitimacy, values often cultivated through identification with existing community beliefs. Likewise, Fisher’s paradigm teaches us …
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Evaluative Mind: Extraneous Influences on Morality, Aesthetics, and Perception
… I focus on two kinds of evaluative states: <em>moral evaluation</em> and <em>aesthetic evaluation</em>. I use the domain of morality to explore the impact of emotions on moral value. I use the domain of art to explore influence of spatial features such as size and position, as well as …
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The environment and natural rights
… independent and confers on it intrinsic value as opposed to instrumental value. This intrinsic value is one that all the entities that make up the environment share. It is further argued that this intrinsic value is aesthetic rather than moral. Only beings that are specially endowed with …
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Just Deserts: The Moral Foundations of Antagonistic Personality in Social Aggression
… al., 2024). Psychopathic personality traits and moral deficits have been linked to antisocial behavior, including social aggression; however, the role of moral value systems and trait moral disengagement in the context of social aggression is less clear. A more granular analysis of their utility …
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Roger Fry as a Protestant Art Critic
… and how they raised the question of the moral value and use of art. I end with a discussion of Ruskin’s concept of the Theoretic faculty and contend that Fry held a similar concept. Overall I argue for the presence of continuity between Fry’s early and later ideas on art criticism and …
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Between Persons: Kantian reflections on the interpersonal domain
… of permissible sexual interactions, and the moral value of love and friendship, I suggest in this thesis. It also reveals a communitarian ideal at the heart of Kant’s moral project, one that has been systematically ignored by critics and sympathisers alike. For Kant, autonomy is not a …
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Queer Debt: Affective Politics of Security and Intimacy in Kurdish Turkey
… adopt, adapt, and use surveillance to constitute moral worlds, craft ethical subjectivities by negotiating the value of life and work with one another, the broader community, and the state. These negotiations involve vocabularies, strategies, and affective attachments derived from the longstanding …
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The Phenomenology of Moral Agency in the Ethics of K. E. Logstrup
Many philosophers hold that moral agency is defined by an agent’s capacity for rational reflection and self-governance. It is only through the exercise of such capacities, these philosophers contend, that one’s actions can be judged to be of distinctively moral value. The moral phenomenology of the …
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Intellectual property law and development in Namibia: harnessing the law on geographical indications in the realization of vision 2030
… the creation of the mind with commercial and/or moral value. Geographical Indications (GI) are a species of intellectual property. A GI is a sign used to identify a product's origin. Furthermore, it indicates the product's quality, characteristics, and reputation associated with that territory or …
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A Care Ethical Theory of Political Obligation
The ethics of care – an approach in moral philosophy with feminist roots – understands care not just as a social phenomenon (as a type of action, relationship, or practice), but also as a crucial moral value. This thesis draws on the ethics of care to explore the question of political obligation: …
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On the Needs of Human Persons
… is realized most fully in a relationship with a morally perfect, worship-worthy being, here named God. The desirability of such a relationship points us to the value of asking whether such a being does in fact exist. I argue that there are good reasons to posit that such a being exists, …
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Moral Reasons Arbitrariness
… Seeman</p><p>Loyola University Chicago</p><p>MORAL REASONS ARBITRARINESS</p><p>The moral philosophies of Allan Gibbard, Christine Korsgaard, and John Post (following Ruth Garrett Millikan's "teleosemantics") each succumb to moral reasons arbitrariness. If a moral philosophy suffers from moral …
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