Morality does not exist in a theoretical limbo; it is an entirely practical concept, the warp and weft of the way people live together. The concept of morality can also only be understood within its historical and cultural contexts in the same way as giftedness. And like giftedness, morality...
Does morality policy exist? A growing body of scholarship has examined the ways that the politics of so-called "morality policy" (e.g., abortion regulation, same-sex marriage policy, and capital punishment) differ from the politics of other types of policy. In this literature, morality ...
Thus, being factually correct does not guarantee moral or ethical goodness, especially where preexisting fixed sets of specific, concrete ‘goods’ and ‘bads’ exist, as was the case with Galileo. Nonetheless, some ethical values transcend cultural, religious, or ethnic differences, and thus ...
Otherwise morality is merely one person's choice or feeling, not an understanding of truth; and (5) the existence of religion. People recognize a moral aspect to the worship of deity; even if the deity does not exist, we still perceive a need for morality to be decreed by Someone 3589 ...
“many” from an absolutely singular conscious agent. There is SELF, and there is OTHER, where both are singular agents, fundamentally, but the combination of SElf and OTHER into “we” or “us” or “many” is an entirely abstract notion. “We” does not exist, fundamentally, at all. ...
the manner in which a moral norm is expressed is not a function of external goal-direction—that is, the norm does not state that in order to attain a certain goal one must act in a particular way. Rather, a moral norm is expressed as an imperative, an obligation that the individual ...
Morality exists outside of religion, whereas religion does not exist without morality. Con claim 1, children below Religion created a means for the transmission of morality across generations and societies. Con claim 2, children below Religion was important to the advancement of morality by provi...
” No goal is stated. All that is described is moral “means”—it is silent about moral “ends.” Knowledgeable Christians should be able tell you that Jesus said this version of the Golden Rule summarizes morality. This is an example of a moral principle that does not have to specify ...
Psychologists in the past failed to come up with any precise characterization of what makes judgments specifically moral, because in reality the imagined boundary between 'moral' judgment and the rest of judgment just does not exist.[80] Early fMRI studies of moral judgment assumed the existence ...
Companies may not have morality but can adopt ethical policies aligned with their values. 5 What role does philosophy play in ethics? Philosophy provides theoretical frameworks to understand and analyze ethical principles. 4 Do societal norms influence ethical standards? Yes, changing societal norms oft...