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Showing 1 to 20 of 860 for “"Morality"”.
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Morality of offenders : investigating morality of individuals who commit crime
Morality is often difficult to define due to its abstract nature, relating to both internal beliefsand morals that an individual possess as well as external factors and circumstances that arisewhich impact on an individual’s moral decision-making ability. Prior research suggests thereis a …
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Nietzsche: Morality and Politics
… examining them together with his philosophy of morality. Nietzscheb s status as a political thinker is highly controversial. Some have considered him anti-political while others have argued that he is apolitical. Still others argue that his philosophy cannot be seen as bereft of political …
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Administrative morality in Colombia
… constitutional reform of 1991: administrative morality. This cause of action was created with the purpose of facilitating citizen engagement in governmental administration by allowing ordinary people to file a lawsuit to challenge governmental corruption. This constitutional reform fostered …
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Contractarianism and Moderate Morality
In his book The Limits of Morality, Shelly Kagan claims that contractarian approaches to ethics are incompatible with our common, everyday, "moderate" morality. In this thesis I defend a version of contractarianism that I believe leads to both deontological constraints and options; i.e., to a …
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Morality In William Faulkner's Novels
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Universal Morality in Japanese Tradition
… Shinto?s moral teaching begins with individual morality. Therefore, I argue that one should recognize Shinto morality voluntarily rather than as a result of persuasion. Reconsidering the universalist/particularist debate, this thesis aims to broaden one?s view on other people?s traditions.
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On the Functions of Morality
<p>This dissertation seeks to bring together two philosophical literatures: the functions literature from the philosophy of biology, and the functionalist literature in naturalistic metaethics. Biological function suggests both objectivity and normativity: “the function of the heart is to pump …
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Component Neural Networks of Morality
… faculty of the human species. Our sense of morality develops beginning at a very young age, and its dysfunction can lead to devastating mental disorders. Given its central importance, it has fittingly garnered the attention of thinkers throughout the ages. For millennia, philosophers have …
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The Morality of Familial Obligation
The task of this dissertation is to examine the morality of familial obligations and to draw conclusions about how they ought to be approached. The work presents a general description of the obligations commonly associated with family membership and a study of possible moral foundations. It also …
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Morality in the Meat Machine
This thesis examines the excusing and exempting conditions in Strawsonian accounts of moral responsibility. More specifically, it notes some concerns for Strawsonian accounts with regards to exempting individuals on the basis of psychological abnormalities, namely that the excusing/exempting …
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A PLURALISTIC APPROACH TO CONSUMER MORALITY
… several scholars have examined the influence of morality in consumption contexts, the extant research has largely assumed a monistic definition of morality. That is, the research has assumed that morality consists of harm/fairness concerns. Contrastingly, this dissertation introduces a …
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Disgust and religious morality of mind
Religious thoughts and beliefs are often perceived to have drastic moral consequences (e.g., faith in God leading to eternal life). At the same time, religions often emphasize the avoidance of physical and spiritual contamination. Whereas past research has found that people experience disgust in …
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Suburban governance: The challenge of morality politics.
Suburban governance: The challenge of morality politics.
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Beyond Scandal: Seeking Morality in Sensation Fiction
… sensation novels on the grounds of excessive immorality. However, three of the most popular sensation novels display a pattern of increased social status as a reward for good behavior is common, clearly suggesting that notions about the genre as immoral are misguided. The thesis demonstrates the …
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Williams, Scanlon, and the Normativity of Morality
… to offer a substantively correct account of morality? This debate operates on the plausible premise that a moral theory rises and falls with the substantive correctness of its prescriptions. But this debate is also premised on the idea that moral theory has a claim to make on us. Not everyone …
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Envisioning Morality in Times of Dynastic Change
The emphasis placed on morality became increasingly remarkable during late imperial China, especially at the junctures of dynastic change. This thesis explores the problem of the construction of morality, and I focus on two plays in which the idea of morality is presented in complicated ways: the …
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