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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Right action."”.
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Reason, Utility, and Right Action in Hume's Moral Philosophy
… feelings of pleasure that we associate with an action being right. Instead, the determination we make that an action is right arises from feelings of approval that are rooted solely in natural sympathy and fellow-feeling, and these feelings never arise from reason. Yet, I argue that in the …
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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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Constructivism and the question of Objectivity: Fichte’s ethics as Critique of Kant’s
… the role of the subject’s reflection in moral actions - reason is the only guarantor of the moral, and the right action must be worked out by the subject and consciously assented to. In contrast, <br/>for Fichte the moral is simply self-evident and immediately known to the subject. If Kant …
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The use of coreference resolution for understanding manipulation commands for the PR2 Robot
Natural language interaction can enable us to interface with robots such as the Personal Robot 2 (PR2), without the need for a special training or equipment. Programming such a robot to follow commands is challenging because natural language has a complex structure and semantics, a model for which …
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Why unavoidable moral wrongdoing is impossible
… with the all-things-considered morally right course of action, and yet nevertheless experience an emotion of self-directed distress at the fact that we have so acted. Moreover, we have the intuition that this emotion is rational or appropriate. Literature is scattered with such examples, …
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Moral deftness : an intellectual virtue ethic for the social media age
… of “moral deftness”, which understands morally right action as a kind of skill in which agents make use of their intellectual virtues in order to pick out and act upon the ethical nuances of the situations they find themselves in. Moreover, the notion of “moral maladroitness” will also be …
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Social networks : rational learning and information aggregation
… underlying state of the world, observes the past actions of a stochastically-generated neighborhood of individuals, and chooses one of two possible actions. The stochastic process generating the neighborhoods defines the network topology (social network). We characterize equilibria for arbitrary …
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Epistemic stability
… 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 account of knowledge: a belief amounts to knowledge only if the manner in which the agent forms the belief explains …
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BUNDLE METRICS IN KALUZA-KLEIN THEORIES AND THE CONSISTENCY PROBLEM
… description of gravity and the other interactions, a la Kaluza-Klein theory, are considered. After recalling some basic notions of fiber bundles and Riemannian geometry, it is shown that the transition functions which give the global structure of a fiber bundle play an important role in the …
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Wanting to Do What's Right
… seem obvious 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 …