Robert Gibbs presents here an ambitious new theory of ethics. Drawing on a striking combination of intellectual traditions, including Jewish thought, continental philosophy, and American pragmatism, Gibbs argues that ethics is primarily concerned with responsibility and is not--as philosophers have often...
Business ethics is concerned primarily with the relationship of business goals and techniques to specifically human ends. It studies the impact of acts on the good of the individual, the firm, the business community, and society as a whole. While it does not concentrate on the obligations which...
2.I argue that all are vulnerable to what I call the insularity objection: evaluating action requires attention to worldly consequences external to the agent, whereas virtue ethics is primarily concerned with evaluating an agent s inner states.最近一些著名的美德伦理学家试图对正确的行动提出种种美德...
2.I argue that all are vulnerable to what I call the insularity objection: evaluating action requires attention to worldly consequences external to the agent, whereasvirtue ethicsis primarily concerned with evaluating an agent s inner states.最近一些著名的美德伦理学家试图对正确的行动提出种种美德伦理...
As noted above, ethics itself is not primarily concerned with the description of the moral systems of different societies. That task, which remains on the level of description, is one for anthropology or sociology. In contrast, ethics deals with the justification of moral principles (or with the...
This paper is primarily concerned with accountability and acknowledgement, and their relationship to one another, in Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull (1998). Arguing that both accountability and acknowledgement become ethically problematic in Krog's transposition of one form of textual practice to ...
The hedonist is primarily concerned with the maximization of his happiness and pleasure. But such outcomes can be secured only by adhering to aesthetic values, by rendering aesthetic judgements, and by maintaining aesthetic standards. The hedonist craves beauty, pursues perfection, avoids the ugly - ...
Ethics is a discipline, which primarily deals with what is moral and immoral behavior. Public Health Ethics is translation of ethical theories and concepts into practice to address complex multidimensional public health problems. The primary purpose of this paper was to conduct a narrative literature ...
[ting] the view of his ethics as primarily concerned with the struggle between individual duty and inclination" (vii). The second step of the argument consists of the first chapter of Part a of the book 097-a39). It moves us from Kant's "social ethics" to Hermann Cohen's "socialist ...
This article suggests that moral epistemology is mainly concerned with "whether and how one can have knowledge or justified belief" about moral issues. It presents and replies to several problems that arise in this connection. It addresses arguments for ethical skepticism, the view that one cannot...