On the Notion of the Circumstances of a Moral Act According to St. Thomas AquinasS. U.Teologia
a "Priming participants to consider the notion that morals are like facts increased decisions to donate in both experiments, revealing the potential impact of meta-ethical views on everyday decision-making," said Young. "Simply asking participants to consider moral values, as we did with the anti...
In The Myth of Morality, Richard Joyce argues that moral discourse is hopelessly flawed. At the heart of ordinary moral judgements is a notion of moral inescapability, or practical authority, which, upon investigation, cannot be reasonably defended. Joyce argues that natural selection is to blame...
这个术语在他的著作中可能出现(且越来越可能如此),但仅仅是以某种否定的方式来说明一种道德形式,后者并非建立在完备性学说之上,且仅仅适用于特定领域。](As far as politics is present at all in Rawls, it is reduced to the 'politics of interest', that is, the pursuit of differing interests defined ...
If this is true, it points to a complete lack of moral integrity and backbone.” The students went on to say that they disagreed with the Head Master’s assertion that ideas which can be deemed “hostile” to minority groups at the school could be censored. “We think this test is too...
This article invites the view that the Europeanization of an antitotalitarian “collective memory” of communism reveals the emergence of a field
So, the fact that an agent certainly won’t comply with moral standards doesn’t mean she isn’t obligation to. This, however, raises the question: should normative theory limit itself to setting standards that, not only can possibility be met, but are likely to be met in practice?
It suggested the notion of governing as an activity which sprang from a ‘natural’ authority of a ‘natural’ head: patriarchalism.)奥克肖特指出,罗马政治从根本上是家族政治,罗马政治中真正的派系是“家族联系”而非平贵斗争,这与古希腊明确拒绝家族或家庭的类比理解城邦有别(it may be said that Roman...
“The State” is thought to have a kind of special moral status that sets it apart from and above other agents. This special moral status explains why States are entitled to coerce people in a wide range of circumstances while no other agent would be permitted to coerce people. That part,...
existential: human existence is a void or empty farce. There are meanings in plenty, but they are specious. The other notion we might call semantic, implying as it does that life is senseless in the way that a piece of gibberish is. This is the tale tole by an idiot, signifying ...