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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"moral rules"”.
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Collective efficacy in micro-places: Exploring the perception and enforcement of moral rules in neighbourhood settings
… efficacy theory when used as a measure of moral rules and their level of enforcement in neighbourhood settings. The first part of the thesis explores how the concept of collective efficacy has been developed in socio-spatial criminological research, bridging the theoretical gap between …
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Why monitoring doesn't always matter: The situational role of parental monitoring in adolescent crime
… crime because adolescents with strong personal moral rules and the ability to exercise self control are unlikely to offend even when they are unsupervised and know that their parents have little knowledge about their activities. Parental monitoring, commonly operationalised as parental …
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Nozick's political philosophy.
… which is built upon a foundation of strict moral rules and property rights. This thesis evaluates three particular aspects of Nozick's libertarian philosophy, beginning with the foundational concept of full self-ownership. Special attention is paid to the compatibility of the full …
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Judgement as play: revealing analogies between aesthetics and ethics
… important because they save from subjectivism a moral theory, particularism, which relies on individual judgement rather than moral rules. Seeing the activity of judgement as play suggests a conception of the outcome of judgement as picturing. This conception helps to make sense of reason-giving …
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Essays in Behavioral, Health and Financial Economics
… people conform to a model of deontological moral rules, in which there is a discrete psychic cost to eating meat or whether they more closely behave according to a utilitarian model of morality in which the more meat they eat, the greater the psychic cost.</p>
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Humanity in the Balance: The Relationship Between the Moral Law and the Promotion of the Moral World in Kant's Ethics
… between two seemingly divergent approaches to morality. On the one hand, there are those who take the view that morality concerns itself with the promotion of certain ends. This is a teleological or consequentialist view of ethics. On the other hand, we see thinkers who take the view that …
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Situational action theory and intimate partner violence: An exploration of morality as the underlying mechanism in the explanation of violent crime
… theory, a general theory of crime that places morality at the centre of its explanatory framework, to the understanding and explanation of intimate partner violence. This thesis concentrates on the roles of personal morality and provocation in intimate partner violence perpetration. Partner …