Moral virtue, in ethics, those qualities or states of character that find expression in morally good actions and morally good purposes or intentions. Moral virtues are persistent patterns of behaviour and thought rather than transient emotions, aspects o
is a theory that holds that the best way to make a moral decision is to look at the potential consequences of each available choice; then, one should pick the option that either does the most to increase happiness or does the least to increase suffering. Utilitarianism...
“No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.”– Henry Van Dyke “He who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur will never be questioned at...
The next step is to transform it into a law of nature: ‘necessarily, in a circumstance with someone in need, everyone omits to help that person’. Imagine how this new law of nature would transform a social order like ours. In that imagined social order, is it possible to act ...
That describes every moral theory I’m familiar with. Ultimately, every ethical theory can accept the weighing principle because the principle does not concern what reasons there are but rather how reasoning works. This is, again, what I mean when I said the principle is ecumenical. This ...
benefits in the 18 plans that had cuts. Notably, the law prohibits the PBGC from conditioning aid on governance reforms or funding rules. But it doesn’t forbid benefit increases. So the failings that got these plans in trouble will continue and may lead to future bailouts. Government unions...
Philippa Foot(the more recent philosopher that we keep mentioning) Eirik Lang Harris, “The Nature of the Virtues in Light of the Early Confucian Tradition” (response to Foot on behalf of Confucian virtue theory) Lei類 (type, kind, natural kind) ...
The moral is then clear: it is so much the worse for utilitarianism, and all morally sensitive people will thus reject it as an ethical theory. The point is that utilitarianism takes the end to justify the means and so allows, indeed requires, the use of any form of treatment that maximi...
Our theory also suggests that moral injury, unlike PTSD symptoms with non-human analogs, would be unique to humans. Humans have evolved a psychology for norm acquisition that helps us learn about and adopt local moral norms, where “moral norms” are defined as “behavioral standards shared and...
Engster, D. (2007).The heart of justice: Care ethics and political theory. Oxford University Press. BookGoogle Scholar Evanschitzky, H., Iyer, G. R., Plassmann, H., Niessing, J., & Meffert, H. (2006). The relative strength of affective commitment in securing loyalty in service relati...