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Vor einem Tag · Ethics. Ethics is concerned with the moral status of entities: for example, whether an act is obligatory or prohibited. [1] Ethics or moral philosophy is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. It investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right.
Vor 4 Tagen · One must be born to any superior world — to make it plainer, one must be bred for it. One has a right to philosophy (taking the word in its greatest sense) only by virtue of one's breeding; one's ancestors, one's "blood," decides this, too. Many generations must have worked on the origin of a philosopher; each one of his virtues ...
Vor 2 Tagen · In ethical philosophy, utilitarianism is a family of normative ethical theories that prescribe actions that maximize happiness and well-being for the affected individuals. [1] [2] In other words, utilitarian ideas encourage actions that ensure the greatest good for the greatest number.
Vor 3 Tagen · Ethics, the philosophical discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong. Its subject consists of fundamental issues of practical decision making, and its major concerns include the nature of ultimate value and the standards by which human actions can be morally evaluated.
- The term ethics may refer to the philosophical study of the concepts of moral right and wrong and moral good and bad, to any philosophical theory o...
- Traditionally, ethics referred to the philosophical study of morality, the latter being a more or less systematic set of beliefs, usually held in c...
- Ethics matters because (1) it is part of how many groups define themselves and thus part of the identity of their individual members, (2) other-reg...
- No. Understood as equivalent to morality, ethics could be studied as a social-psychological or historical phenomenon, but in that case it would be...
Vor einem Tag · In this article we argue that governmental practices of secrecy threaten the epistemic dimension of rights. We defend the view that possessing a right entitles its holder to the largest extent of available knowledge of the circumstances that may impede the enjoyment of that right. We call this the ‘epistemic entitlement’ of rights. Such an entitlement holds in ideal conditions once full ...
Vor 6 Tagen · Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps." The series looks at the ideas, lives and historical context of the major philosophers as well as the lesser-known figures of the tradition.
Vor einem Tag · Based on John Milton's arguments, freedom of speech is understood as a multi-faceted right that includes not only the right to express, or disseminate, information and ideas but three further distinct aspects: the right to seek information and ideas; the right to receive information and ideas; the right to impart information and ideas
