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Moral Communities In A Pluralistic Nation, Eric Bain-Selbo
Moral Communities In A Pluralistic Nation, Eric Bain-Selbo
Philosophy & Religion Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Moral Communities In A Pluralistic Nation, Eric Bain-Selbo
Moral Communities In A Pluralistic Nation, Eric Bain-Selbo
Philosophy & Religion Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Moral Vices As Artistic Virtues: Eugene Onegin And Alice, Stephanie Patridge
Moral Vices As Artistic Virtues: Eugene Onegin And Alice, Stephanie Patridge
Religion & Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
Moralists hold that art criticism can and should take stock of moral considerations. Though moralists disagree over the proper scope of ethical art criticism, they are unified in their acceptance of the consistency of valence thesis: when an artwork fares poorly from the moral point of view, and this fact is art critically relevant, then it is thereby worse qua artwork. In this paper, I argue that a commitment to moralism, however strong, is unattractive because it requires that we radically revise our art critical practices in contexts where revision seems ill advised. I will consider two such cases, Pushkin's …
Monstrous Thoughts And The Moral Identity Thesis, Stephanie Patridge
Monstrous Thoughts And The Moral Identity Thesis, Stephanie Patridge
Religion & Philosophy Faculty Scholarship
The responses are not simply imagined: we are prescribed by Justine actually to find erotically attractive the fictional events, to be amused by them, to enjoy them, to admire this kind of activity. So the novel does not just present imagined events, it also presents a point of view on them, a perspective constituted in part by actual feelings, emotions, and desires that the reader is prescribed to have toward the merely imagined events. Given that the notion of response covers such things as enjoyment and amusement, it is evident that some kinds of responses are actual, and not just …
The Ethical Lacunae In Friedman's Concept Of The Manager, Jonathan B. Wight, Martin Calkins
The Ethical Lacunae In Friedman's Concept Of The Manager, Jonathan B. Wight, Martin Calkins
Economics Faculty Publications
This article challenges along two lines Milton Friedman's injunction that the sole role of the business manager is to maximize profits for shareholders using all legal and ethical means. First, it shows how Friedman overly narrows the manager's moral duties to consequentialist profit maximization and thereby fails to account for a wide range of values and virtues necessary for good management. Second, it illustrates how more oblique approaches to management as well as Adam Smith's virtue-based model better capture the moral imagination and relational aspects of leadership that are critical to good management today. In the end, this article suggests …
Apriority From The 'Grundlage' To The 'System Of Ethics', Sebastian Rand
Apriority From The 'Grundlage' To The 'System Of Ethics', Sebastian Rand
Philosophy Faculty Publications
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Combatant’S Privilege Reconsidered, Harry Van Der Linden
Combatant’S Privilege Reconsidered, Harry Van Der Linden
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
International law grants to legitimate combatants the right to kill enemy soldiers both in wars of aggression and defensive wars. A main argument in support of this “combatant’s privilege” is Michael Walzer’s doctrine of the “moral equality of soldiers.” The doctrine argues that soldiers fighting in wars of aggression and defensive wars have the same moral status because they both typically believe that justice is on their side, and their moral choices are equally severely restricted by the overwhelming coercive powers of the state, including propaganda, conscription, and harsh penalties for the refusal to fight. Recently, this doctrine has been …