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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"moral agency"”.
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MORAL THEORY, MORAL AGENCY AND MARXIAN MORAL THEORY.
MORAL THEORY, MORAL AGENCY AND MARXIAN MORAL THEORY.
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Nature and Origin of Moral Agency in Mammalia
Moral philosophers often claim that animals lack the basic capacities needed for morality. However, with no account that states the minimal requirements for being a moral agent, that claim is vulnerable. After developing such an account, the dissertation shows that many species of mammals satisfy …
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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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A Constructive Account of Children's Moral Agency Drawing on Thomas Aquinas's Theory of Emotions
… dissertation makes the case that children are moral agents engaged with the morality of their communities without being morally accountable as adults. Contemporary Christian theological anthropology holds that children are fully human and in the image of God, and that they are already …
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Moral Agency, Moral Imagination, and Moral Community: Antidotes to moral distress, as reported by experienced ICU nurses regarding the withdrawal of aggressive treatment
Moral distress has been covered extensively in nursing literature and increasingly in the literature of other health professions. Cases that cause nurses’ moral distress mentioned most frequently are those concerned with prolonging the dying process. Given the standard of aggressive treatment over …
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The moral and legal status of the human foetus : a critical analysis from an Islamic perspective
… for such a determination? Additionally, is moral status related to legal status, and if so, how? Also, what implications does this have for foetus-related dilemmas such as abortion and foetal research? These questions will be addressed by examining relevant Western moral and legal arguments …
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Reconciling Moral Dissonance: A Framework for Re-Integrating Moral Orientation with Life Agency During Warfighters’ Struggles with Military Moral Injury
… the formation and healing of Military Moral Injury (MMI). I adapt the work of Stephen Brookfield and Neal Krause to evaluate using the TMM as a methodology for dealing with the complex issues of MMI within a military deployment cycle (training, warfighting, and healing) (Brookfield …
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The It-Narrator as Moral Agent: Social Guardians in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Literature
… of the it-narrator’s functioning as a model of moral agency, cognizant of his/her/its obligations within a societal grid. A lens to the contemporary perception of what made it-narratives important is available in the writings of Thomas Reid, an eighteenth-century philosopher who emphasized the …
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Marx's Conception of the Status of Ethics in Capitalist Society
… as essential to the functioning of an ethics or morality: a conception of the good life for individuals living together in society; and a means of embodying this conception in an analysis of moral agency. The investigation establishes Marx's understanding of the status of ethics or morality in …
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Exploring the Moral Dimension of Professors' Folk Pedagogy
… professors' folk pedagogies and teaching's moral dimension. Folk pedagogy is the accumulated set of beliefs, conceptions and assumptions that professors personally hold about the practice of teaching (Bruner, 1996). When these beliefs and conceptions are enacted as a teaching practice, they …
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The Ethical Accountability of Organizational Leadership to Communities of Stakeholders in Healthcare
… so by examining the healthcare organization’s moral agency in relation to stakeholder theory and applies those considerations to three major stakeholder categories: confidentiality and privacy of healthcare information, research and attention to specific pediatric populations, and ethics of …
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An Ethical Model for Mandatory Reporting to Avoid Preventable Adverse Harm in Health Care
… approach to patient safety and institutional moral agency. The discussion of the systems-based approach to patient safety informs the stance that healthcare organizations are uniquely situated to intervene to reduce medical error. This approach emphasizes the role of system defenses, barriers, …
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The Map is not the Territory: The Unconscious Moral Agent and the personal mythopoeic in the novels of Cormac McCarthy
That the unconscious ‘may be laboring under a moral compulsion to educate us,’ is a provocative theory posed by Cormac McCarthy in his recent work of non-fiction, the Kekulé Problem. He suggests that, for several million years — long pre-dating the arrival of complex language — the unconscious has …
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Challenging Robot Morality: An Ethical Debate on Humanoid Companions, Dataveillance, and Algorithms
In this thesis, I reflect on ethical, moral, and agenthood debates around social and humanoid robots in two ways. I focus on how the technological agency of social robots is understood in ethical canons by shifting from moral concerns in Robot Ethics to data-related ethical concerns in Media and …
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Can we be Civil? What Activists and Policymakers Tell Us about Human Rights and World Society
… require a closer examination. These features are moral agency, the relationship between order and justice, and the basis of human rights, they each represent different facets of underlying tensions between the two sets of actors of interest, which are predicted to take the form of a family tree of …
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The Use Of Reflection Through Narratives For Nurse Manager Leadership Development
… the practical knowledge, clinical judgment, moral agency, and caring embedded in the leadership practice of nurse managers.</p> <p>Background: The nurse manager (NM) plays a leadership role in achieving effective and efficient health care. As for the most effective preparation for this role, …
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The Ethics of Vision and Black Theology and Experience
… insufficient attention to how vision shapes the moral life. Too much focus is given to moral decision-making and action, while too little focus is given to the way vision and patterns of attentiveness ground our capacities for genuine morally responsible action. Therefore, in this study, I draw …
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The New Feminine Rhetoric: Wollstonecraft, Austen, and the Forms of Romantic-Era Feminism
… feminist goals of increased understanding and moral agency might be attained.
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The Essential Morality of Identity: The Role of the Conscience in Identity Formation
… a conscience that testifies to both the moral framework of this world along with the way an individual relates to the moral framework and understands him- or herself.Considering the dearth of attention given to the conscience and the blatant antagonism to a moral framework in much of …
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Raising Robots to be Good: a practical interpretation, framework and methodology for developing moral machines
… to create machines with the capacity to make moral decisions, this thesis carries out an in-depth exploration and investigation into this area, and specifically, how we might create machines with morals. In turn, it proposes a practical framework, methodology and then design for their …
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