Notion of the moralMary MidgleyIn this paper I argue that virtue ethics should be understood as a form of ethics which integrates various domains of the practical in relation to which virtues are excellences. To argue this it is necessary to distinguish two senses of the "moral": the broad...
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 ...
so that the United States can look good in the eyes of the world.' But I don't think Americans really understand. [The Iranians] began showing me official US classified documents. I realized that the US has been doing things there that these people didn't like. It makes you see that...
(market value) of a security reflects its true worth (intrinsic value). In a market with perfectly rational agents, “prices are right”. Findings in behavioral finance, by contrast, suggests that asset prices also reflect the trading behavior of individuals who are not fully rational (Barberis...
that pursuit by establishing agreed-upon, neutral rules. Of course those rules have for Rawls a moral character, so his conception is not a purely instrumental one; there should be moral limits imposed on the search for self-interest. But between the "reasonable" and the "rational" there is...
TheWe are not like thatthing? Yeah; maybe not me, maybe not you, butweas inwethe people. We are the selfish,shortsighted,Who-cares-about-anyone-else-as-long-as-I-got-mine-and-Jesuspeople. It sucks to observe this, to have to admit this. ...
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...
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 ...
Where is Paul Coleman now? Google “James Patterson Experiment” and see what comes up for the first 10 pages of results. No, this is not paranoia. This is the notion of “loss prevention” filtered through high-end corporate logic. ...
“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,...