Mary Anne Warren: On the Moral and Legal Status of …

treated as a member of the moral community. It is true that the claim that x is a human being is more commonly voiced as part of an appeal to treat x decently than is the claim that x is a person, but this is either because `human being' is here used in the sense which implies personhood, or because the genetic and moral sense

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WHAT IS SO GOOD ABOUT MORAL FREEDOM?

freedom to choose between good and evil is a very great good indeed. According to Swinburne’s theodicy, God gives us moral freedom because he wants us to share in his creative activity – because he wants us to be able to

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PHILOSOPHY OF MIND AND HUMAN NATURE

philosophy of mind and human nature 351 Galileo in the seventeenth century, then going out of fashion, and now coming back into fashion with our modern talk of dark matter.

Implementing Tutorials Sustainably: Restructuring ...

Implementing Tutorials Final Report: CCLI # 0410744 1 Implementing Tutorials Sustainably: Restructuring Undergraduate Recitations and Laboratories in Introductory Physics

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INTRODUCTION: GLOBALIZATION AND …

INTRODUCTION: GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE ... complex business-to-business information networks to locate global sources.

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All Animals Are Equal - University of Colorado Boulder

the same way, or grant exactly the same rights to both groups. Whether we should do so will depend on the nature of the members of the two groups. The basic principle of equality, I shall argue, is equality of consideration; and equal consideration for different beings may lead to different treatment and different rights.

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INTRODUCTION: GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL …

2We discuss trade barriers in chapters 18-20 and the international institutions governing trade and investment in chapters 21-23. 3The importance of transportation costs and other trade costs will be discussed in detail in Chapter 13. 3 of a treaty called the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).2 This process continued through nearly five decades until 1994 when the …

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Alastair Norcross Rice University

meat is that many, perhaps most, such consumers are unaware of the treatment of the animals, before they appear in neatly wrapped packages on supermarket shelves. Perhaps I should moderate my challenge, then. If we are prepared to condemn Fred for torturing puppies merely to enhance his gustatory experi-

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METAPHYSICS - University of Colorado Boulder

The Problem of Method in Metaphysics: Science, especially physics, ... dualism: the mind is an immaterial entity; (4) Idealism - the view that there is no mind-independent physical world. ... The argument from out-of-body experiences, and near-death experiences.

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CHAPTER IV NORMED LINEAR SPACES AND BANACH SPACES

66 CHAPTER IV X is called bounded if for each neighborhood W of 0 there exists a positive scalar c such that S ⊆ cW. THEOREM 4.1. (Characterization of Normable Spaces) Let X be a locally convex topological vector space. Then X is a normable vector space if and only if there exists a bounded convex neighborhood of 0. PROOF.

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Kantian Moral Philosophy and the Morality of Abortion ...

moral 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

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Famine, Affluence, and Morality Author(s): Peter Singer ...

moral 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

  Philosophy, Moral

Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

4 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

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Socrates: Philosophy applied to Education - Search for Virtue

moral 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

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KOHLBERG'S STAGES OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT

interviewing 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

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Kantian Theory: The Idea of Human Dignity When Kant said ...

the 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.

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Liberals and Conservatives Rely on Different Sets of Moral ...

1991) 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

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