1CHAPTER A Brief History of Ethics Jennifer Downs In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. Earl Warren1 How ought one live? This question represents the foundation of centuries of debate concerning the philosophy of ethics, a subject that writers from every country across every ...
Morality and Ethics: A Brief ReviewMorality, originated from the Latin word moralitas (which means manner, character, and proper behavior), is the differentiation of intentions, decisions, and actions between those that are distinguished as proper and those that are improper. Morality is the ...
The question of ethics is one which persists. On a personal level, on a social, on a global level, what is it we should do? And why? Why should we adopt this or that stance, this or that perspective on what is right and what is wrong? How can we know the good that we would ...
Ways of evading the recognition of the flawed creation and its flawed creator have been devised over and over, but none of these arguments have impressed Gnostics. The ancient Greeks, especially the Platonists, advised people to look to the harmony of the universe, so that by venerating its gr...
Ethics and Morality 4 Min Read Should Free Speech Have Limitations? Free speech is at the heart of a democratic society. Anthropomorphism 3 Min Read Why Fables Use Animals Without animals, fables would run the risk of falling flat as moralizing or patronizing. Philosophy 5 Min Read ...
So it is with these that I will begin this daunting task of figuring out a pattern within this history of how life and its evolution has been understood. In most of Europe through this time, the word and work of the Christian God accounted for all of nature on the planet and in ...
James relates character to issues of culture and ethics, but his style can be opaque; Conrad's narratives may resemble adventure stories in incident and setting, but his real concern is with issues of character and morality. The best of their work would include James's The Portrait of a Lad...
“The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to thecontemplation of History, is the simple conception ofReason; that Reason is the Sovereign of the World; that the historyof the world, therefore, presents us with a rational process. This convictionand intuition is a hypothesis in the ...
Utilitarianism is a consequentialist theory, that is, it is concerned with the outcome of our actions to determine their morality. It is the concept that the right action is the one that will result in "the greatest amount of good for the greatest number". Deontological ethics suggests that ...
Real Ethics: Rethinking the Foundations of Morality.(Book Review)(Brief Article) argues, embodied in the form of a revised Platonism, can adequately account for our fundamental conviction that what is right and wrong is not merely a creation of human self-interest but is based on the way thin...