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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"moral agent"”.
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Beggars Can't Be Choosers or the Refugee as a Moral Agent?
… theory on stigma and identity, and 5) moral perceptions created by a discourse based on agency, reciprocity, solidarity, and hope.</p><p> Discursive analysis affirms that the dominant discourse has historically been absent the refugee voice and lacking the agency to affect contingent …
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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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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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The church as a moral agent in society: a case study of residents' perspectives of the role the church has played in the Kraaifontein residential area over the last ten years: 1994-2004
… in the Cape Peninsula vicinity, perceive the moral role that the church has played over a period of ten years from 1994 to 2004. The clergy and pastors of two mainline churches and two evangelical churches in Kraaifontein were chosen as the participants. They were asked to put forward the …
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Cultivating the Moral Imagination
The moral imagination is a type of moral competence, moral disposition, or moral intelligence that can be cultivated and that leads to an expanded vision of whom the moral agent has a moral duty to. The moral imagination is essential in the lifework of the clinician and it is a type of moral …
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Environmental Virtue Education: Ancient Wisdom Applied
… arising from the language of rights, duties, and moral claims by emphasizing the cultivation of certain dispositions in the individual moral agent. In this thesis, I examine the advantages of virtue ethics over deontological and utilitarian theories to show the potential of developing an …
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Let His Conscience be her Guide: Ethical Self-Fashionings of Woman in Early-Modern Drama
… Renaissance playwright's depiction of woman as moral agent. First, the playwright's education would have included a traditional body of philosophical opinion regarding female intellectual and moral capacities that would have tried to explain rationally the necessity of woman's second-class …
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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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Normative Sentimentalism and Animal Ethics
… normative version of sentimentalism. The moral principle which is the foundation of this ethic is: An act, or a failure to act, is morally wrong if and only if it is committed by, contributed to by, or allowed by a moral agent, and both the motive is disapproved of by the impartial …
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Philo of Alexandria's Exposition of the Tenth Commandment
… his exposition in the context of Middle-Platonic moral psychology, this dissertation answers two fundamental questions: First, what, in Philo's view, does the Tenth Commandment prohibit? (All desire? A certain type? What type?) Second, how, in Philo's view, is the Tenth Commandment observed? (What …
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Ethical Ideals, Nonrational Forces: Melville's Critique of Morality
… for its treatment of two fundamental problems of moral inquiry: the relation of cognition to action and the difficulty of carrying out ethical ideals. Building on the insights contemporary moral philosophers like Alasdair MacIntyre, Martha Nussbaum, Charles Taylor, and Bernard Williams have …
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An evaluation of the modest hero objection and stringency as a solution in the debate over supererogation
… the inclusion of supererogation as a category of moral action. The 'modest hero' objection (as it is here called) maintains that since the moral agent praised for a supererogatory act tends to respond modestly, that she was merely "doing her duty," the bar of duty is likely so high as to exclude …
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Developing a tool for eliciting users moral theories for automated moral agents
… name Genet, that allows the user to choose which moral theory their automated moral agent will follow. What remains unclear, however, is how the users will make this choice, given that most of them will not have the vocabulary to classify themselves in the moral philosophical terms used by Genet. …
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The Psychology of Plato's Republic: Taking Book 10 into Account
… the parts of the soul to be independent and agent-like (as ‘realists’ interpret the dialogue) or not (as ‘deflationists’ argue). The third puzzle regards an issue that is much less discussed in the literature, namely the <em>Republic’s </em>notion of character. On the one hand, Socrates never …