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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Normative Ethics"”.
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A NORMATIVE ETHICS RIGHTS-BALANCING LENS: UNDERSTANDING GRATEFUL PATIENT FUNDRAISING PRACTICES VIA INDIVIDUAL PHYSICIAN INTERVIEWS
… professionally and personally understood the ethics of patients being identified, solicited, and thanked for philanthropic dollars by healthcare providers and their institutions. A normative ethics rights-balancing theoretical framework (MacQuillin, 2021, 2023; MacQuillin & Sargeant, 2019) was …
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Borderline duties and fuzzy values: An analysis of vagueness in ethics
… obligation in consequentialism within normative ethics is fundamentally a problem of vagueness in the specific sense in which the issue is treated within the philosophy of logic and language. This realisation leads to a substantial reframing of the question with two main takeaways: the …
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Habermas and the Feminist Engagement with Communicative Ethics: Solidarity and Utopian Interests as a Corrective to Normative Political Problematics
… interests are foundational for communicative ethics, neo-Marxist feminists argue that he makes naïve assumptions about the separation of public from private interests. Habermas, on one hand, sees communication as politically oriented dialectics that culminates in rational consensus and …
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Exploring conflict: the justification of violence
… comparing the processes they use with those of normative ethics, to review whether and how well existing theory addresses the issues people actually face in terms of ethical reasoning. If someone is in a conflict, and the next move may involve harm-doing, what should they be thinking about and …
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Anger and Punishment: Natural History and Normative Significance
… of anger has substantive implications for normative ethics, undercutting some of the evidence for retributive theories of punishment. In the process, I develop an evolutionary account of anger, its relation to psychological traits of other animals, and its influence on action. First, I …
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Reforming investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS): European Union flexing its normative power?
… whether the European Union (‘EU’) is acting as a normative power in its pursuit of reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (‘ISDS’) in the form of the European Commission’s (‘Commission’) proposals on the Investment Court System (‘ICS’). The EU has emerged as a major player in international …
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Nicomachean and Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and Shakespeare's Tragedies
"Nicomachean and Neo-Aristotelian Ethics in Shakespeare's Tragedies" examines two of Shakespeare's most compelling tragedies--Othello and King Lear--through the lens of contemporary virtue ethics theory, thereby offering new conceptions of how morality operates in these plays. Although …
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The Role of Ethical Evaluation of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Perception of Corporate Hypocrisy, the Intention of Opinioned Communication and Behavior toward a Firm
… as a result of ethical attribution of CSR to normative ethics, and thus can be a useful indicator of the disappointing and ineffective role of CSR programs geared toward raising publics' goodwill toward a firm. However, scant scholarly effort has been made to explore the concept of corporate …
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Healing the Effects of Medical Errors: A Vision of Justice as Wholeness
… dimensions of wholeness. A mixed approach to normative ethics, justice as wholeness has two principles that exclude unjust pursuits of its value-goal: a civic republican conceptualization of freedom and a biblical notion of equality. Justice as wholeness is a comprehensive and integrative …
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Born free and equal?: on the ethical consistency of animal equality
… such moral illusions. The second part turns to normative ethics, dealing with principles of welfare, justice and basic rights. It tackles problems ranging from population ethics to non-ideal theory. Finally, the third part moves to applied (animal) ethics, In analogy to optical illusions, I …
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A philosophical exploration of anger and forgiveness
… Nussbaum’s objection which holds that anger is ‘normatively problematic’. I respond here by stressing that, should anger contain a retributive aspect, the retributive element present within particular forms of anger is importantly communicative in nature and concerned with defence of self-respect …
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A Critical Evaluation of the Ethical Elements in Managerial Training that Impact Ethical Intentions in Decision-making in the Chinese Automotive Industry
… identified. There also appears to be a lack of ethics from the West and a lack of rationalised knowledge to facilitate effective and ethical training. Moreover, the current literature neglects moral values and dimension concepts in terms of managerial training and limits to the intellectual …
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Examining Loyalty The Folk and The Philosopher
In the modern age of individualism, conservative concepts of loyalty have slipped into the background of the Great Conversation. While this may be true in the field of ethical philosophy, it is not true elsewhere. In this paper, I examine loyalty from the perspectives of the "folk and the …
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A Metaethical Study of Simone Weil’s Notion of Attention Through Critical Practical Analogy
… notion of attention. In this thesis, 'metaethics‘ is defined as a second order inquiry into first order questions of normative ethics, more specifically, an inquiry into the metaphysical and epistemological premises of Weil‘s discourse on the ethical value of attention. On one hand, I …
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Prescriptions and universalizability: a defence of Harean ethical theory
… scheme of providing a unified account of meta-ethics and normative ethics by combining expressivism with Kantianism and utilitarianism. The project of this thesis is to defend Hare’s theory in its most ambitious form. This means not just showing how the expressivist, Kantian and utilitarian …
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Does Empirical Moral Psychology Rest on a Mistake? Understanding Theories About the Nature of Moral Judgment as Moral Propositions
… profound consequences for the methodology of metaethics. Specifically, it implies that theories about the nature of moral judgment cannot be understood as empirical hypotheses. There have historically been many attempts to develop a philosophically satisfying theory that characterizes the nature …
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Doing Less Than Best
This thesis is about the moral reasons we have to do less than best. It consists of six chapters. Part I of the thesis proposes, extends, and defends reasons to do less than best. In Chapter One (“The Conditional Obligation”) I outline and reject two recent arguments from Joe Horton and Theron …
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Diachronic Choice in Ethics
… theory, and on recently emerging work in normative ethics to discuss how a range of popular moral theories extend to decisions that unfold in a series of choices over time. We will see that such diachronic choices give us a good testing ground for moral theories. In some cases, I will …