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 ...
That point is also summed up in the first line of Mill’s utilitarianism. In the rest of the book, he describes secondary principles that temper this first principle. The same is true for Machiavelli. We can read a section as a call for shady tactics, but his work in total is a reali...
by stipulation,theonlypossible way to save five innocent lives is to murder one innocent person, and this murder iscertainto save the five lives. "There's a train heading to run over five innocent people, who you can't possibly warn to jump out of the way, but you can...
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 National Security Council has accepted this responsibility, but inherently lacks the process to execute the principle to achieve postmodern purposes, so the search continues. Concurrent with the search for authority is a discussion regarding the appropriate means of conducting humanitarian intervention....
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...
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...
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 abstra
The Limits of Moral Principle: An Ends, Means, and Role Spheres Model of the Ethical Threshold.EthicsPhilosophyBehaviorDecision makingModelsLogistics managementThesesThis thesis deals with the philosophical problem of distinguishing right from wrong. Concepts including the existence of truth, intrinsic good...
H.UniversityM.UniversityEBSCO_AspAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Journal of the American Catholic Philosophical AssociationGiebel, H.M. "Ends, Means, and Character: Recent Critiques of the Intended-Versus- Foreseen Distinction and the Principle of Double Effect." American Catholic Philosophical ...