Sentences with phrase «as moral philosophers»

Through helping students develop as moral philosophers, critical consumers of information and civic agents, we hope to change the way they see themselves as individuals in a larger society.

This «moral reading» of the Constitution calls on judges to act as moral philosophers: «equal protection of the laws» should mean what best promotes «equal concern and respect» for all humans; «liberty» in the «due process» clause should mean autonomy in matters important to personal development, and so forth.

Not exact matches

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For example, only we are moral beings: As the philosopher Hans Jonas put it, «an «ought to» can issue only from man and is alien to everything outside him.»

But contemporary moral and political philosophers rarely offer sustained arguments against the metaphysical project as such.

As is observed by J. Baird Callicott, a contemporary environmental philosopher and defender of Leopold, what is noteworthy about this principle «is that the good of the biotic community is the ultimate measure of the moral value, the rightness or wrongness, of actions» (AL 318).

For example, the Hungarian - born moral and political philosopher Aurel Kolnai speaks for a conservatism that attempts to do justice to the reality of a natural order as well as to the prudential requirements of political life.

What Rapp discovers bears the weight of the decision that gave rise to her research: «This technology turns every user into a moral philosopher, as she concludes her fears and fantasies of the limits of mothering a fetus with a disability.»

It is worth repeating that economics, from the time of Plato through to Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill was as deeply concerned with issues of social justice, ethics and morality as with economic analysis itself However, economics students today are taught that Adam Smith was the «father of modern economics» but not that he was also a moral philosopher.

Utilitarian moral philosophers may likewise appeal to process metaphysics as a powerful external justification for their ethical theory.

Carol Tauer, a philosopher at Minnesota's St. Catherine's College, has recently challenged the moral logic of this declaration, as well as of the current pastoral teachings on abortion, in an incisive and thorough analysis of the tradition of probabilism — a theory of practical decision - making that is accepted in Catholic moral teaching.

Although the terms political philosophy and political theory are used rather indiscriminately, those who think of themselves as political philosophers tend to link what they do closely to philosophical and moral principles; while those who call themselves political theorists tend to appeal to facts about the world and to the way in which the structures and processes of social and political life limit the possibilities for the realisation of those principles by political agency.

One final conclusion may come as no surprise — the researchers say their findings show that our day - to - day moral decisions don't fit into the neat categories defined by moral philosophers.

Moral philosophers like to approach moral dilemmas as having either a deontological or a utilitarian nature.

Darwinian moral philosophers such as George Williams reject the notion that evolution should be a direct guide to ethics or to education.

There, well - known philosopher Dr. Henry Shue (currently at Oxford) gave an excellent and compelling talk about the (strong) moral / ethical case for taking action to address and minimize risks such as those presented by climate change.

As you will have gathered, I am a natural philosopher and not an epistemological or moral philosopher.

Roger Pielke Jr. and Max Boykoff are listed as Associate Editors, and the Utilitarian moral philosopher, Peter Singer is on the journal's editorial board.

The NYT provides a more cursory, shallower, look at Dworkin's significance as a legal and moral philosopher and personal history.