1.(Philosophy) the thesis that any moral judgment must be equally applicable to every relevantly identical situation 2.(Philosophy) the Kantian principle that if a course of action cannot be universally adopted it must be morally impermissible ...
Bro. Besant goes on to state, unmistakably, that a single morality is not for everyone. That is, each of us has our own morality: “…morality is not as simple as one would think, one and the same for all; because it varies with the Dharma of the individual.”~ Bro. Annie Besant ...
The first three chapters get us clear about what basic certainty and what morality is. In these next two chapters I go on to develop a key distinction (put forth by Daniele Moyal-Sharrock) between different kinds of basic certainty, the local and the uni
What is a particular in philosophy? A particular is a specific instance or entity that can be individually identified within a broader category. 13 Can something be both particular and universal? In most contexts, an entity or concept is classified as either particular or universal, but the inte...
Compare and contrast the three main moral philosophies of Moral Virtue Theory, Duty Theory and Utilitarianism and explain how each philosophy type would evaluate the morality a. Define the following ethical theory: deontological ethics. b. Give an ethical example of the theory. ...
Morality is not your opinion, belief, manners, culture, or upbringing. It is much more important than that. True or false? Answer true or false: A counterexample is a description of a particular case that is meant to show that a universal claim, li...
Levinas’s doctrine of literature should be interpreted in light of one of thecentral theme of his Jewish philosophy, namely, the theme of chosenness anduniversality. Levinas’s theory of literature is part of his philosophical strugglewith the question of the relation between universality and singu...
Cosmic Consciousness is not a new phrase, and it does not pertain to any one pre-existing philosophy or religion. Humanity has been undergoing the process described in the concept of cosmic consciousness for long time - setting aside the ways of the human animal, rising through the common inte...
Chinese philosophy strongly suggests universal truths and morality. Woo (1980) pointed out that the Western idea of human rights has never been widely accepted in China because it is rooted in metaphysical concepts that had been foreign to traditional Chinese culture. On contrary to Woo's view, ...
In paragraph 135 of the Philosophy of Right Hegel formulates his well-known objection to the "empty formalism" of Kant's theory of morality: "[I]f the definition of duty is taken to be the absence of contradiction," he tells ... SS Sedgwick - 《Journal of the History of Philosophy》...