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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"moral perception"”.
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"Moral perception": an examination and revision
… theorists have advanced what seems to be a novel moral epistemology or explanation of how it is that agents come to form moral beliefs and acquire moral knowledge. Known to this point simply as “moral perception,” this view claims that it is possible to “perceive” moral facts in much the same way …
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Seeing the good : moral perception in Aristotle's "Nicomachean ethics".
… perceiving the justice, nobility or goodness of moral actions and agents. This perception (aisthēsis), which I call "moral perception," serves as a foundation for the attainment of moral truth, making possible prudent deliberation and an understanding of what is good or bad, just or unjust, noble …
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Pre-employment character assessments for United States pretrial services and probation officers
… be tested? What does Aristotle's theory of moral perception and practical wisdom have to do with law enforcement? I will look at what constitutes human flourishing or eudaimonia and how it relates to law enforcement. Moral perception and judgment are discussed and how perception is necessary …
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Moral realism: an anti-projectionist account of moral values as aspects of the manifest image
… thesis will argue that a significant part of our moral experience can be explained by an analogy with the phenomenon of aspect perception discussed by Wittgenstein in his Philosophical Investigations. I will argue that projectivism cannot give a satisfactory account of moral perception. This …
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Real education for the real world : a comparative study of the moral and ethical training of undergraduate commerce and non-commerce students at Concordia University
… study is an examination of student responses to moral and ethical statements. One hundred and eighty-two undergraduate students were surveyed with the intent to discover any differences on moral sensibilities between commerce and non-commerce students. The study is prefaced by a brief …
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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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Moral machines : perception of moral judgment made by machines
… discussion has emerged with regard to the moral implications of a future wherein people hand over to autonomous machines the controls to a mode of transportation. These discussions have entered a new phase with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) releasing a 15-point policy that …
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The Importance of Attention in Morality An Exploration of Iris Murdoch’s Philosophy
This thesis explores the role of attention in morality as presented by Iris Murdoch. The aim is to offer a clear and detailed understanding of Murdoch’s concept of attention, its metaphysical presuppositions and its implications for morality, and, if Murdoch’s view as developed here is found to be …
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THE MYTH OF THE SLAVELESS SOCIETY: BLACK POLITICS AND THE AMBIGUITIES OF ANTISLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS, 1641-1783
… across the vast gap that separates moral perception of a problem from taking concrete action against it. In the process, they gave birth to America’s first formal Black political tradition.Studying the myth of the slaveless society in Massachusetts has several benefits. It helps us …
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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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Seeing Right from Wrong: A Defense of A Posteriori Ethical Intuitionism
… the claim that our epistemic access to</p> <p>moral properties is grounded in a posteriori perceptual experiences. It is divided into</p> <p>two parts. In part I, I present the epistemic access problem for realist moral</p> <p>epistemology, and then argue against several a priori attempts to …
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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 …