Moral Philosophy
Found 8 free book(s)Kantian Moral Philosophy and the Morality of Abortion ...
research.monm.edumoral philosophy in a manner that renders abortion to be morally imper-missible, others, such as Feldman and Denis, apply Kantian moral phi-losophy to abortion in a way that defines abortion as morally problemat-ic, yet most often morally permissible. The author critically critiques
Famine, Affluence, and Morality Author(s): Peter Singer ...
personal.lse.ac.ukmoral difference whether the person I can help is a neighbor's child 232 Philosophy & Public Affairs ten yards from me or a Bengali whose name I shall never know, ten
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
sites.pitt.edu4 Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals ence, empirical, but that which puts forth its doctrines solely from princi- ples a priori, pure philosophy.The latter, when it is merely formal, is called logic; but if it is limited to determinate objects of the understanding, then3 it is called metaphysics. In such a wise there arises the idea of a twofold metaphysics, the idea of
Socrates: Philosophy applied to Education - Search for Virtue
files.eric.ed.govmoral excellence both such as a person either such as a professional, that is, he or she must look for virtue, in order to be coherent with his or her ideals and actions. Since Antiquity, Socrates was already known such as someone who, instead of having just taught philosophy, he had lived it, according to the
KOHLBERG'S STAGES OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT
www.polsci.tu.ac.thinterviewing children and adolescents on moral issues. The result was his doctoral dissertation (1958a), the first rendition of his new stage theory. Kohlberg is an informal, unassuming man who also is a true scholar; he has thought long and deeply about a wide range of issues in both psychology and philosophy and
Kantian Theory: The Idea of Human Dignity When Kant said ...
public.callutheran.eduthe moral law itself. The only way that moral goodness can exist at all in the world is for rational creatures to apprehend what they should do and, acting from a sense of only thing that has “moral worth.” Thus-if there were no rational beings, the moral dimension of the world would simply disappear.
Liberals and Conservatives Rely on Different Sets of Moral ...
fbaum.unc.edu1991) is a clash of visions about such fundamental moral issues as the authority of parents, the sanctity of life and marriage, and the proper response to social inequalities. Ideological commitments are moral commitments; they are not necessarily strategies for self-enrichment. In this article we examine moral foundations theory, which was
Philosophy 1100: Ethics
spot.colorado.edumoral reason in favor of doing the act, but one that can be outweighed by other moral reasons. Another definition: An act is a prima facie duty when it has at least one right-making feature. Another term that means the same thing is ‘prima facie right’.