Sentences with phrase «ethical theory»

The fact that different ethical theories would reach different conclusion, however, does not mean that anything goes.

However, for some issues there may be an overlapping consensus among ethical theories about what ethics requires.

The nature of this course lends itself to applying ethical theories in real world settings and many of the online assignments focus on that.

New ethical theories must be sensitive to that fact.

One, on some issues there will be an overlapping consensus among diverse ethical theories about what should be done.

Kupczak offers a finely wrought examination of the anthropology and ethical theory of John Paul II.

Assume, then, that the maximal happiness principle is the basis for ethical theory.

All major ethical theories require that humans refrain from harming others simply on the basis of self - interestalone.

Analyze moral problems in public health practice, research, and health policy and identify and communicate morally compelling lines of argument for alternative ethical principles or foundational ethical theories at stake.

A man can not control beforehand the possibilities upon which he must act; he can not in the moment of decision fall back upon principles, upon a general ethical theory which can relieve him of responsibility for the decision; rather, every moment of decision is essentially new.

Such being the case, it makes sense to teach MBA students about various ethical theories, about what can be learned from various scandals, about social expectations with regard to business, and so on.

The relationship between God and man, with which theology (Jewish or Christian) is primarily concerned, could now only be postulated if it contributed to the elaboration of ethical theory Moreover, the only divine - human relationship that this new anthropocentrism would tolerate was between a postulated deity and the human individual.

This inevitable abstraction makes ethical theory true only «for the most part,» a consequence illustrated above when I noted that a human individual is, for the most part, analogous to a single value - experience.

In what is called an abductive approach, the method is to look at the various secular and naturalistic ethical theories in a generous way, but then to show just how inadequate they are in giving grounding for objective moral truth.

Lynne Belaief's discussion, «Whitehead and Private Interest Theories,» in the July 1966 Ethics purports to present the foundational elements of a Whiteheadian ethical theory.

This analysis of divine activity as the source of human value enables us to make sense out of the competing claims of rival ethical theories by assigning each a subordinate role within a wider explanation.

They can not be deduced from a universal ethical theory.

I will defend the following three claims: first, Hartshorne and Mill offer strikingly similar ethical theories; second, Hartshorne's process metaphysics lends itself more convincingly to a defense of utilitarianism than do the psychological principles advanced by Mill; third, like Mill, however, Hartshorne's position is vulnerable to one of the classic objections against utilitarianism, the problem of justice.

In the previous section, we have seen that Hartshorne's commitment to a process metaphysics allows him to offer a stronger defense of a utilitarian ethical theory than Mill.

Utilitarianism in ethical theory does indeed appear to reflect most faithfully the emphasis of process metaphysics on experiential values and social interdependence.

Aritotle's ethical theory says that a person should develop excellence in community affairs and philosophical reasoning.

Using ethical theories such as situation ethics etc. 4.

Abortion Matrix used for revision When does life begin debate Personhood debate - potentiality, consciousness, primitive streak, viability, John Lock principle of reciprocity peter singer - pro abortion Judith Thompson - The violinist Mother vs Child debate Feminism and abortion (used as an extra lesson Ethical theories applies - including mindmaps i have made used as revision tools for pupils

Highlights include: - A set of resources for Ethics (introduction to ethics and ethical theory support).

Although we can not predict specific impacts of geoengineering with much confidence, we can fruitfully consider the conditions under which geoengineering research would be justified (or not), and ethical theory provides a wealth of resources to sift through the value judgments that arguments for (or against) research inevitably involve.

Yet to see them as the result of a miscalculation about how to maximise human welfare, or a failure to act according to a Kantian universal maxim, as the dominant ethical theories would have it, somehow trivialises the magnitude of what has been done and which now looms before us.

That is under any conceivable ethical theory, nations must set ghg targets based upon their duties to not harm others, not self - interest alone.

There remain, however, several serious questions about its adequacy as a foundation for ethical theory.

Although what fairness requires is a matter about which different ethical theories might reach different conclusions and a matter beyond the cope of this post, a US claim that it is already below its fair share of safe global emissions is highly unlikely to pass scrutiny on the basis of any conceivable ethically theory.

Then he turned into a serious study of the social and ethical theories of - the great philosophers — Plato, Aristotle, Bobber, Bentham, Mill and Locke: all of these masters stimulated his thinking much more sharply.

• retreat - taking refuge in some form of fideism, an unthinking rejection of scientific knowledge or new ethical theories, and an implicit withdrawal from the field of effective apologetics;

Recognize moral problems in public health practice, research and health policy, including identifying which ethical principles or foundational ethical theories are at stake and potentially in tension.

In a discussion of recent disputes in ethical theory she gets to the marrow by stating that the debate is «between people who stress the autonomy of morals to avoid debasing them, and those who stress the continuity of morals with other topics in order to make them intelligible.»