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MORAL THEORY, MORAL AGENCY AND MARXIAN MORAL THEORY.
MORAL THEORY, MORAL AGENCY AND MARXIAN MORAL THEORY.
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Sartre's early moral theory
… Nothingness , his magnum opus, Sartre promised a moral theory. By 1947, he had filled a dozen notebooks bearing on moral theory, but because he was unsatisfied with his work they were never published during his lifetime. By using the ontology Being and Nothingness and Notebooks for an Ethics , …
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Emotions and Hume's moral theory
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1988.
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Causation in metaphysics and moral theory
Chapter 1: The causal relata. Ordinary talk suggests that entities from different ontological categories can cause and be caused: Kathy's throw, the fact that Kathy threw, and Kathy herself can all cause the window to break. But according to the majority view, causation exclusively relates events. …
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Minimizing harm : three problems in moral theory
Chapter 1 (Distance and Morality): This chapter is a response toFrances Kamm's "Faminine Ethics: the Problem of Distance in Morality and Singer's Ethical Theory". I argue that Kamm fails to produce a pair of cases in which a moral difference is present that is not attributable to factors other than …
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The relationship of virtue of happiness in Socrates’ moral theory
… relationship of virtue to happiness in Socrates 'moral theory. The focus of my enquiry is a debate between Gregory Vlastos and Terence Irwin in which Vlastos claims that Socrates holds component view of the relationship of virtue to happiness, and Irwin claims that Socrates holds an …
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Reason and care: constructing an inclusive moral theory for civic education
… debate regarding (in)compatibility of rational moral philosophy and caring theory. My thesis argues and demonstrates that by unifying Noddings’ caring theory with ethic(s) of care presented by scholars from social and political science, in both practice and relational ground, the new caring …
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The Role of Religion as a Basic Human Good in the Moral Theory of Germain Grisez
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She said, hey! put your self in my shoes : moral theory and the Gilligan-Kohlberg controversy
… is an examination of a debate in contemporary moral theory that centres on the issue of whether moral thinking and practise ought to be based on formal principles of justice or upon caring and responsibility. On one hand is the view that justice is the ethically optimal endpoint of moral …
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Eschatological Paradigm and Moral Theory in Contemporary Christian Ethics: Stephen Charles Mott and Thomas W. Ogletree
… ethicists in the way its application influences moral theory. These divergences indicate the need to clarify the issues revolving around its methodological application in order to bring credible structure for applying the eschatological paradigm in Christian ethics.</p> <p>A set of analytical …
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Toward a richer account of human rights in Christian moral theory : from Wolterstorff and Hauerwas to Wojtyla.
The role of human rights is disputed in Christian moral theory. When human rights are discussed, it is common to find that a problematic understanding of the human agent is assumed in those discussions, one that understands the agent motivated strictly by belief and accompanying desires. This …
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Williams, Scanlon, and the Normativity of Morality
Most debates about the viability of a given moral theory are won and lost, or at least brought to an end, through resort to a familiar pattern of argument: if a theory calls for that course of action, can it really claim to offer a substantively correct account of morality? This debate operates on …
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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 Role of Moral Exemplars in Stanley Hauer's Ethics
… Hauerwas, with particular focus on the role of moral exemplars in his theory. Hauerwas emphasizes the role of what are called "moral exemplars" in his virtue ethics. These are people or characters of narratives that best exemplify virtue. A theory is exemplarist if the moral concepts of the …
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Formalism and Contextualism in Moral Education: An Analysis of Two Exemplars
… formalist and the contextualist traditions in moral theory. It first examines problems that each theory leaves unresolved and explicates the apparent conflict and tension that exist between the two perspectives. The question of resolving the conflict between impartiality and particularity is a …
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Examining "The Adam Smith Problem": Individuals, Society, and Value
… economic work, The Wealth of Nations, and his moral theory, the Theory of Moral Sentiments. I argue that far from being inconsistent with Smith's economic theory, his moral theory serves as a necessary foundation. I suggest that, because he takes humans to be moral by nature, Smith defends …
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The recognition of the ethical in the context of professional life
… of professional ethics. These are labelled "The Moral Theory Approach" and "Contextualism". The Moral Theory Approach includes any specific theory which adopts the two fundamental principles of universalizability and impartiality, and the presuppositions that moral argument should be …
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Thinking as a Mere Citizen of the World: Kantian Morality in a Pluralist Frame
This dissertation argues that Kantian morality is more compatible with cultural pluralism than has thus far been acknowledged. Cultural pluralism denotes a normative commitment to the idea that we ought to uphold diversity and protect the rights of individuals within a given society to hold a …
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Universalizability as necessary for objectivity in morality
… defend the claim that ethics, and more properly, morality is involved with providing one with guidelines for action and resolving conflict between people's interests in an objective manner through the universalizability principle. In chapter one I shall argue against charges of triviality, …
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The theory of forms and Plato's ethics
… ethics and metaphysics - specifically, the theory of Forms - in the dialogues of Plato. Drawing on material from a wide range of Plato 's works, I investigate possible ways in which his theory of Forms might, at a very general level, converge with his moral theory.
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