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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Of Drones And Justice: A Just War Theory Analysis Of The United States' Drone Campaigns, Ethan A. Wright
Of Drones And Justice: A Just War Theory Analysis Of The United States' Drone Campaigns, Ethan A. Wright
Richard T. Schellhase Essay Prize in Ethics
No abstract provided.
Frowe's Machine Cases, William Simkulet
Frowe's Machine Cases, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
Helen Frowe (2006/2010) contends that there is a substantial moral difference between killing and letting die, arguing that in Michael Tooley's infamous machine case it is morally wrong to flip a coin to determine who lives or dies. Here I argue that Frowe fails to show that killing and letting die are morally inequivalent. However, I believe that she has succeeded in showing that it is wrong to press the button in Tooley's case, where pressing the button will change who lives and dies. I argue that because killing and letting die are morally equivalent we have no reason to …
A Taste Of Armageddon: When Warring Is Done By Drones And Robots, Brian Stiltner
A Taste Of Armageddon: When Warring Is Done By Drones And Robots, Brian Stiltner
Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications
Discusses the increasing use of drones and weaponized robots. Argues that the international community must put firm ethical guidelines in place before the technology becomes rampant.
Tom Regan On ‘Kind’ Arguments Against Animal Rights And For Human Rights, Nathan Nobis
Tom Regan On ‘Kind’ Arguments Against Animal Rights And For Human Rights, Nathan Nobis
Attitudes Towards Animals Collection
Tom Regan argues that human beings and some non-human animals have moral rights because they are “subjects of lives,” that is, roughly, conscious, sentient beings with an experiential welfare. A prominent critic, Carl Cohen, objects: he argues that only moral agents have rights and so animals, since they are not moral agents, lack rights. An objection to Cohen’s argument is that his theory of rights seems to imply that human beings who are not moral agents have no moral rights, but since these human beings have rights, his theory of rights is false, and so he fails to show that …
Sometimes There Is Nothing Wrong With Letting A Child Drown, Travis Timmerman
Sometimes There Is Nothing Wrong With Letting A Child Drown, Travis Timmerman
Travis Timmerman
Hsisp Annotated Bibliography: Moral & Character Education (1998-2013), Erich Yahner
Hsisp Annotated Bibliography: Moral & Character Education (1998-2013), Erich Yahner
Erich Yahner
No abstract provided.
Political Obligation, Richard Dagger, David Lefkowitz
Political Obligation, Richard Dagger, David Lefkowitz
Political Science Faculty Publications
This essay begins, therefore, with a brief history of the problem of political obligation. It then turns, in Part II, to the conceptual questions raised by political obligation, such as what it means for an obligation to be political. In Part III the focus is on the skeptics, with particular attention to the self-proclaimed philosophical anarchists, who deny that political obligations exist yet do not want to abolish the state. Part IV surveys the leading contenders among the various theories of political obligation now on offer, and Part V concludes the essay with a brief consideration of recent proposals for …
मानवेन्द्र M N Roy Neo Humanism And Morality, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.
मानवेन्द्र M N Roy Neo Humanism And Morality, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.
Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.
This paper is in Hindi M N Roy was a great Indian philosopher. His philosophy neo humanism has been explored with reference to morality.
Innocent Burdens, James Edwin Mahon
Innocent Burdens, James Edwin Mahon
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Overriding Reasons And Reasons To Be Moral, Curtis Brown
Overriding Reasons And Reasons To Be Moral, Curtis Brown
Curtis Brown
No abstract provided.
Tom Regan On ‘Kind’ Arguments Against Animal Rights And For Human Rights, Nathan Nobis
Tom Regan On ‘Kind’ Arguments Against Animal Rights And For Human Rights, Nathan Nobis
Nathan M. Nobis, PhD
Causality In La Mort Le Roi Artu: Free Will, Accident, And Moral Failure, David S. King
Causality In La Mort Le Roi Artu: Free Will, Accident, And Moral Failure, David S. King
Quidditas
The thirteenth-century French La Mort le Roi Artu indicates forthrightly how the Arthurian world comes to an end, but the text leaves less clear what motivates the disaster. Many critics attribute the cause to an external force, God or the goddess Fortune, that obliges Arthur and others to pursue their own destruction. A few offer greater insight into the nature of causality in the romance. They see the characters as exercising some degree of free will or even complete liberty. But these critics err in alienating the notion of free choice from moral concerns. In their reading, the heroes suffer …
Shaky Ground, William Simkulet
Shaky Ground, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
The debate surrounding free will and moral responsibility is one of the most intransigent debates in contemporary philosophy - but it does not have to be. At its heart, the free will debate is a metaethical debate - a debate about the meaning of certain moral terms - free will, moral responsibility, blameworthiness, praiseworthiness. Compatibilists argue that these concepts are compatible with wholly deterministic world, while incompatibilists argue that these concepts require indeterminism, or multiple possible futures. However, compatibilists and incompatibilists do not disagree on everything - both parties agree that free will and moral responsibility require control - the …
The Deontic Cycling Problem, William Simkulet
The Deontic Cycling Problem, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
In his recent article "Deontic Cycling and the Structure of Commonsense Morality," Tim Willenken argues that commonsense ethics allows for rational agents having both ranked reasons (A > B, B > C, and A > C) and cyclical reasons (A < B, B < C, and A > C). His goal is to show that not all plausible views are variations of consequentialism, as consequentialism requires ranked reasons. I argue instances of apparent deontic cycling in commonsense morality are the byproducts of incomplete characterizations of the cases in question.
Under The Veil, William Simkulet
Under The Veil, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Moral And Professional Accountability For Clinical Ethics Consultants, William Simkulet
Moral And Professional Accountability For Clinical Ethics Consultants, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Impact Of Online Versus Face-To Face Instruction On Appraisal Student's Morality Levels, Samuel Martin
Impact Of Online Versus Face-To Face Instruction On Appraisal Student's Morality Levels, Samuel Martin
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The financial markets have been in a state of chaos for a number of years. Some of the chaos was attributed to appraisers bending under unethical pressure exerted by lenders. The purpose of this study was to explore whether mode of instruction affected appraiser morality when participating in a Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) course, as measured by Rest's Defining Issues Test (DIT-2). The research question examined the difference between the effect on the morality schema of continuing appraisal students taking the 7-hour USPAP CE course online versus students taking the course in a face-to-face environment. The research …
An Explication Of Nietzsche's Views On Punishment., Erik Jay Hascal
An Explication Of Nietzsche's Views On Punishment., Erik Jay Hascal
College of Arts & Sciences Senior Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
The Morality Of Human Rights, Michael J. Perry
The Morality Of Human Rights, Michael J. Perry
San Diego Law Review
My discussion of the morality of human rights in this Article presupposes that the reader is familiar with the internationalization of human rights: the growing international recognition and protection, in the period since the end of the Second World War, of certain rights as human rights. The Appendix to this Article is for readers not familiar with the internationalization of human rights. I begin, in the first Part of the Article, by explaining what the term human right means in the context of the internationalization of human rights. I also explain both the sense in which some human rights are, …
Killing, Letting Die, And The Case For Mildly Punishing Bad Samaritanism, Ken M. Levy
Killing, Letting Die, And The Case For Mildly Punishing Bad Samaritanism, Ken M. Levy
Ken Levy
For over a century now, American scholars (among others) have been debating the merits of “bad-samaritan” laws – laws punishing people for failing to attempt “easy rescues.” Unfortunately, the opponents of bad-samaritan laws have mostly prevailed. In the United States, the “no-duty-to-rescue” rule dominates. Only four states even have bad-samaritan laws, and these laws impose only the most minimal punishment – either sub-$500 fines or short-term imprisonment.
This Article argues that this situation needs to be remedied. Every state should criminalize bad samaritanism. For, first, criminalization is required by the supreme value that we place on protecting human life, a …
Worthy Lives, Lisa Rivera
Worthy Lives, Lisa Rivera
Lisa Rivera
Susan Wolf's paper "Meaning and Morality" draws our attention to the fact that Williams's objection to Kantian morality is primarily a concern about a possible conflict between morality and that which gives our lives meaning. I argue that the force of Williams's objection requires a more precise understanding of meaning as dependent on our intention to make our lives themselves worthwhile. It is not meaning simpliciter that makes Williams's objective persuasive but rather meaning as arising out of our positive evaluation of the value of our lives as a whole. This type of meaning has a normative element: it involves …
Sacrifices, Aspirations And Morality: Williams Reconsidered, Lisa Rivera
Sacrifices, Aspirations And Morality: Williams Reconsidered, Lisa Rivera
Lisa Rivera
When a person gives up an end of crucial importance to her in order to promote a moral aim, we regard her as having made a moral sacrifice. The paper analyzes these sacrifices in light of some of Bernard Williams’ objections to Kantian and Utilitarian accounts of them. Williams argues that an implausible consequence of these theories is that that we are expected to sacrifice projects that make our lives worth living and contribute to our integrity. Williams’ arguments about integrity and meaning are shown to be unconvincing when the content of projects is left open. However, a look at …
The Reality Of Moral Imperatives In Liberal Religion, Howard Lesnick
The Reality Of Moral Imperatives In Liberal Religion, Howard Lesnick
All Faculty Scholarship
This paper uses a classic one-liner attributed to Dostoyoevski’s Ivan Karamozov, "Without God everything is permitted," to explore some differences between what I term traditional and liberal religion. The expansive connotations and implications of Ivan’s words are grounded in the historic association of wrongfulness and punishment, and in a reaction against the late modern challenge to the inexorability of that association, whether in liberal religion or in secular moral thought. The paper argues that, with its full import understood, Ivan’s claim begs critical questions of the meaning and source of compulsion and choice, and of knowledge and belief regarding the …
Trolley Cases And Autonomy Violation, William Simkulet
Trolley Cases And Autonomy Violation, William Simkulet
Philosophy and Religious Studies Department Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Philosophy Of Sex And The Morality Of Homosexual Conduct, Kyle C. Hansen
The Philosophy Of Sex And The Morality Of Homosexual Conduct, Kyle C. Hansen
CMC Senior Theses
Homosexuality is an important and controversial topic in political, philosophical, ethical and religious spheres. We are exposed to the debate of homosexuality in the media on a regular basis and issues related to homosexuality have been taken up by the Supreme Court, politicians and religious institutions. Needless to say, the debate surrounding homosexuality has captured the attention of almost everyone in society to some degree. It is my goal in this thesis to give a candid overview and analysis of the arguments surrounding homosexual sexual conduct. First, I will present an argument by John Corvino, who posits that homosexual conduct …
The Analects And Moral Theory, Stephen C. Angle
The Analects And Moral Theory, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
The Analects And Moral Theory, Stephen C. Angle
The Analects And Moral Theory, Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
Reply To Critics [Of Sagehood], Stephen C. Angle
Reply To Critics [Of Sagehood], Stephen C. Angle
Stephen C. Angle
Kovesi And The Formal And Material Elements Of Concepts, T. Brian Mooney, Mark Nowacki, John N. Williams
Kovesi And The Formal And Material Elements Of Concepts, T. Brian Mooney, Mark Nowacki, John N. Williams
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
In his seminal work Moral Notions, Julius Kovesi presents a novel account of concept formation. At the heart of this account is a distinction between what he terms the material element and the formal element of concepts. This paper elucidates his distinction in detail and contrasts it with other distinctions such as form-matter, universal-particular, genus-difference, necessary-sufficient, and open texture-closed texture. We situate Kovesi’s distinction within his general philosophical method, outlining his views on concept formation in general and explain how his theory of concept formation is applied in moral philosophy.
Why The Greater Good Is Good: Lessons From Harry Potter, Maureen Zach
Why The Greater Good Is Good: Lessons From Harry Potter, Maureen Zach
Tredway Library Prize for First-Year Research
For me, this paper was an opportunity to bring Harry Potter into academia by evaluating a serious moral and philosophical concept, the greater good, with J.K. Rowling’s beloved series. In the end, we see that society could do well to learn from Harry’s selflessness in working for the greater good.