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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"moral motivation"”.
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Moral Motivation and the Devil
… the thesis known as judgment internalism about moral motivation. Broadly construed, this thesis holds that there is a non-contingent relation between moral judgment and moral motivation. The difficulty for judgment internalism arises because of amoral agents: when an agent both knows the right …
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Situations, incentives and reasons. Kant on rational agency and moral motivation
… model of rational agency that underlies Kant's moral philosophy. These I call the problem of experiential incongruence and the problem of misdirected moral attention. The former problem arises because the central elements of Kant's theory of action (the possession of and action upon maxims; the …
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A New Theory And Measure Of Ethical Work Climate: The Psychological Process Model (PPM) And The Ethical Climate Index (eci)
… the emergence of ethical behavior: collective moral sensitivity, collective moral judgment, collective moral motivation, and collective moral character. I developed a multidimensional instrument capable of capturing each of these dimensions at the climate level. I anticipate that this theory …
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Organization-bound professionalism : essays on contemporary expert work
… accounting work, to examine the process by which moral motivation of professional work translates into efficient, but morally contradictory outcomes. Together, the essays show that professionalism is a powerful cultural and sociological concept that has effects across a wide range of …
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A Review of the Principal Questions in Richard Price’s Moral Intuitionism
… theory assumes, at minimum, the following: 1) Moral claims can be true stance independently, or, in other words, morality exists independently of our whims, beliefs, or desires, 2) There are moral truths that can be discovered through some rationalist capacity (be it “intuition” or “the …
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Effects of Moral Sensitivity and Moral Climate on Moral Reasoning
… are expected to behave ethically and morally. It is assumed that moral and ethical reasoning in psychology students develops through exposure to ethical dilemmas within ethics classes and during clinical training experiences. Rest's Four Component Model of Moral Behavior, a …
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The ‘Retention in Randomised Control Trials (RRCT)’ Project
… Tit-For-Tat strategy, reciprocal altruism, moral motivation, reciprocity and building social obligations.
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Innovation and Empowerment: Transformational Leadership and Ubuntu in the Youth Choir
… components of idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration; and ubuntu, a southern African philosophy of humanism. Findings indicate that Leithead’s behaviours align with transformational leadership and his moral motivation is consistent …
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Imaginative Simulation in the Moral Life
… and so on). My thesis suggests that analytic moral philosophy would benefit from a sustained consideration of the role that imaginative simulation plays in our moral thinking. Indeed, it is because imaginative simulation involves the same critical sensorimotor, perceptual, affective, and …
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Beyond Utility, Rights, and Care: An Alternative Approach to Global Poverty
… two major facets: It provides a compelling moral motivation to act to end global poverty, and it also suggests specific initiatives that will prove effective in this endeavor.</p><p>I argue that conditions of poverty, whether on our doorstep or around the world, are not just doing something …
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The Phenomenon of Amoralism: An Investigation of the Cognitive and Emotive Roots
<p>An amoralist is defined as a person who rejects the claims of moral reasons to special authority, and systematically acts without regard to the generally accepted moral standards. A psychopath can be seen as a paradigm case of an extreme amoralist, although the less severe cases of selective …
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From Neo-orthodox theology to rationalistic deism : a study of the religious influences on the development of John Rawls's political philosophy.
… Church, he never abandoned the religious motivations that he held in his adolescence. Both the young Rawls's theological work and the mature Rawls's philosophical thought share the view that there are deep inequalities and other great evils in society and human history. As a solution, …
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'Spells That Have Lost Their Virtue': The Mythology and Psychology of Shame in the Early Novels of George Eliot
… while she presents a positivist understanding of moral motivation derived from Spinoza, in which repressed shame must be acknowledged in order to attain moral freedom. In Chapter One, I argue that her favorite book as a child--The Linnet's Life--forecasts the psychic work of Eliot's protagonists. …
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Moral judgment, role concepts, and empathic response as predictors of dental student clinical effectiveness.
Rest's Four Component Model (FCM) of morality framed two studies examining whether measures of the components predicted clinical effectiveness (moral behavior) on case simulations. Archived course portfolios for 120 students were randomly selected from five dental cohorts (N=386) who completed a …
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Kant, Skepticism, and Moral Sensibility
… that feeling has a pos- itive role to play in moral life. But the exact nature of this role is far from clear. As much as Kant insists that moral action must proceed from a feeling of respect, he maintains with equal insistence that the objective basis of acting from duty must come from …