Is Kant's Ethics really a middle ground between Existentialism and Contractarianism? What will be an ideal response? Which of these principles Utilitarianism and Universalism is most often applied in business.
Moral universalismMoral partialityInconsistencyRecent work indicates that people are more likely to protect a close (vs. distant) other who commits a crime. But do people think it is morally right to treat close others differently? On the one hand, universalist moral principles dictate that people...
Situation ethics, also commonly called situational ethics, is a type of relativism. That is, situation ethics examines whether or not behavior or action is ethical in a specificsituation. As such, situation ethics rejects universalism—the belief that ethics are rigid and independent of circumstance...
∙Sam Harris by Frederick Edwords Executive Director, American Humanist Association What is humanism? The sort of answer you will get to that question depends on what sort of humanist you ask!The word "humanism" has a number of meanings, and because authors and speakers often don't clarify...
said' to those at the sharp end of the exercise political power, but then the question is what kind of 'something'; and the worry here is that it may turn out to be either too undemanding or too contestable, as is also the case with minimal moral universalism, which I consider next....
[Universalism] is the democracy of Christianity. As political democracy contends, not for the absolute equality of man, but for their equality before the law; not for their equality as a matter of fact, but for their equality as a matter of right: so Universalism contends for the equality...
Harmony and courtesy are highly valued, not merely on human/moral grounds, but as harmonizing with the Cosmic Order itself. Filianism is, before all else, a religion of Harmony: It is Love that holds the drop of dew pendent upon a blade of grass, neither flowing forth in watery profusion...
in moral and physical health, and in racial quality. And we believe that all of these things are closely bound together. We can have a healthy, vital artistic life once again only when we reject the false notion of artistic universalism and encourage our young artists and musicians to express...
(philosophy) The theory that action should be directed toward achieving the "greatest happiness for the greatest number of people" (hedonistic universalism), or one of various related theories. Communism The international socialist society where classes, money, and the state no longer exist. Utilitari...
Consequentialism holds that the consequences dictate whether an action is moral or immoral, without committing to a specific kind of consequence. Utilitarianism, as a branch of consequentialism, gives a clear criterion: the greatest overall good or happiness. 5 Consequentialism serves as an umbrella te...