No one wants to be treated merely as a means-"used," in a sense. But just what is this repugnant treatment? Audi's point of departure is Kant's famous principle that we must treat persons as ends in themselves and never merely as means. Treatment of these kinds is conduct, a complex...
We have tried to show the relation of moral decisions to moral principles. But every moral argument that ends in a decision must be supported not only by the principle but also by a factual or empirical premise without which the connection between abstract principle and concrete act could never...
knowledge is relatively cheap and easy to balance with ends and ways. Unlike conventional ways, cyberwar defies the military principle of mass. And its primary objectives are control and paralysis. Unlike the clearly articulated ends of Cold War...
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule. —Friedrich August von Hayek 15 Means To An End Quotes If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not...
TheendjustifiesthemeansTheendjustifiesthemeansis an expression that is often used in society to validate or excuse distasteful and objectionable actions undertaken by its people. In effect‚ the phrase is a justification for dispensing with all morality and principle in the passage towards a successful...
them do untoyou.” This embodies the principle of reciprocity—thatwe should treat others as we would wish to betreated ourselves—and it applies to both intentionsand outcomes. ++Happy masses JeremyBentham suggested that we should make decisions based on the consequencesof those decisions—something...
Which of the following concepts directly contradicts the principle of moral relativism? A) utilitarianism B) universalism C) egoism D) agnosticism E) atheism Which of the following is not one of the key ethical approaches to...
principle to guide humans running on corrupted hardware, but I wouldn't endorse it as a principle for a society of AIs that make well-calibrated estimates. (If you have one AI in a society of humans, that does bring in other considerations, like whether the humans learn from your example...
In the backdrop of this question, the chapter examines some dominant principle-based ethical theories, both Western and Indian, in the context of individual and institutional morality. Beginning with individual morality, Immanuel Kant's absolutist conception of duty is contrasted with the relativistic ...
A microstructure-dependent nonlinear third-order beam theory which accounts for through-thickness power-law variation of a two-constituent material is developed using Hamilton's principle. The formulation is based on a modified couple stress theory, power- law variation of the material, and the von...