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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Moral worth."”.
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Moral worth, virtue, and accidentally right action : towards a virtue first approach.
The contemporary notion of a morally worthy action—a right action done for the right reasons—is widely recognized as something distinct from but importantly related to acting virtuously. It is somewhat surprising, then, that the relationship between morally worthy action and action from virtue has …
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Praise without perfection
… like us, who are both epistemically flawed and morally imperfect. First, how should such agents form and revise their moral beliefs? Second, how should we morally evaluate the actions of such agents - under which conditions do their actions have moral worth? I approach these questions by …
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What Counts as Desiring the Actual Good?
<p>Here is a simple observation about moral character: Moral virtue apparently consists, at least in large part, in caring about the right things. When we imagine a virtuous agent, we find that she cares about particular considerations, and that her caring is at least part of what makes her …
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Wanting to Do What's Right
… that good people want to do what is right. But moral philosophers disagree about whether it is virtuous to be motivated to do what is right as such. Some, inspired by Kant, argue that wanting to do what is right as such is always morally praiseworthy. Others claim that such a desire amounts to a …
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Moral Equality: Article of Faith
… that the best arguments we have for the equal moral worth of all human beings are incorrigibly defective. This is a problem because many people hold that equality between persons in the political, legal and social realms depends on and is justified by their equal value in the moral realm. I …
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Kansas History as Seen in the Works of Margaret Hill McCarter
… of the "Indian Country", men of education, high moral worth and refined taste, came to Kansas. Prom a historical viewpoint it would seem that this land always had a fascination for men of genius, talent and learning. Kansas has always drawn her children with an attachment which amounts to …
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Kant's Change of Heart: Radical Evil and Moral Transformation
… into question whether humans can ever become morally good. For this reason, many commentators have dismissed the Religion as not cohesive with Kant's corpus and do not consider it to play an important role in his ethical theory, in particular. Contrary to this traditionally-held …
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AN ETHICAL ANALYSIS OF NICOTINE NON-HIRING PRACTICES: SHOULD THIS POLICY BE SNUFFED OUT?
… societal cohesion, uphold equal individual moral worth and mitigate long-standing systemic harms) are insufficient to prevent NNPs. Finally, I discuss that for optimal functioning of a liberal democracy, organizations have the right to choose who they wish to hire. Hence, it requires a …
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Epistemic stability
… 2, I explore an analogy between knowledge and moral worth. Just as knowledge requires the agent to non-accidentally believe the truth, so too does morally worthy action require the agent to non-accidentally perform the right action. I argue that the analogy lends support to an explanation-based …
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A capabilities approach to understanding health disparities
… ethical principles such as respect for equal moral worth of all and social values such as non-discrimination. The purpose of this dissertation was to explore race, disability, rural culture, and disparities experienced by these groups using a social justice lens. Specifically, this …
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Postnatal depression: a relational perspective
… During the depressipn, they believed their moral worth and social acceptability depended on complying with cultural expectations of motherhood. The 12 first-time mothers felt under pressure to conform to normative definitions of the 'good', selfless mother. All 18 mothers felt under pressure …
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A philosophical exploration of anger and forgiveness
… I argue that particular conceptions of anger are morally valuable responses to wrongdoing. The primary value of these forms of anger is linked, I argue, to their functional role in defending the self-respect of the victim of wrongdoing.<br/><br/>Chapter One amounts to a conceptual analysis of the …
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Pragmatism and Effective Altruism: An Essay on Epistemology and Practical Ethics
… one can calculate exactly the value of each moral decision by identifying which one yields more QALYs, and, apparently, objectively come to a conclusion about the moral worth of seemingly unrelated situations, for example, whether it is more moral to donate money so as to help women suffering …
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The Spectrum of Virtue: From the Decent to the Excellent
What makes an action morally good, worthy, or virtuous? I offer a pluralist answer to this by considering a spectrum of actions, especially those with many motives. There are, I argue, two types of good motives: concerns simply for what is (pro tanto) right or good as such and concerns simply for …
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Condiciones para preservar e valor moral del consentimiento informado en medicina
… quedar reducido a un formalismo legal sin valor moral; esto puede suceder por dos cosas: 1) como consecuencia de que el paciente no comprenda con suficiencia el concepto de autonomía y 2) debido a la disminución de la autonomía práctica del paciente por efecto de la autoridad del personal médico …