Moral character

Accommodating In the Thomas Kilmann Conflict Model, Accommodating is unassertive and cooperative which is the opposite of competing. It might take the form of selfless generosity or charity, allowing another person to have their own way and tolerating decisions that they not like. In accommodating, individual neglects his or her own concerns to satisfy the concerns of the other person, allows questionable decisions to go ahead, bends the rules and self-scarify. They tend to see conflicts as…

William MacAskill argues in his book “Doing Good Better”, that we ought to donate towards charities that are the most effective. However, he also asserts that it is not morally justifiable to give to a cause that is close to one’s heart, insofar the charity the agent chooses to support is due to a subjective reason. He proposes this, because the charity may not be as effective and efficient as another one we could support with the same resources. Problematically, if we were to listen to…

regardless of differences or will our differences always determine how we treat other humans? Pro-social behaviors: volunteering, sharing, showing compassion etc. have been positively linked to moral identity while antisocial behaviors: bullying, selfishness, aggression etc. have been negatively linked to moral identity (Hardy, Bean, & Olsen, 2015). “Voluntary actions that are intended to help or benefit another individual or group of individuals” (Eisenberg and Mussen 1989, 3) is considered…

Litotes Definition: Litotes is a figure of speech that uses negative words but promotes a positive statement. The double negative words are intended to express a contrast.This literary term is used to state a positive statement, without actually stating an affirmative. They are usually expressed through an understatement. Litotes are typically put in use during speeches and rhetoric (Litotes). Function: In litotes, two negative terms are used to portray a positive statement. This therefore…

Moral luck is basically saying that you can morally hold a person responsible for any chain of actions, despite the circumstances and or factors. Whether you’re giving them the praises for said actions or whether you are putting the blame on them. Moral luck can create a contradiction, a paradox in society way of viewing the concept of moral responsibility. Nagel disagrees with the moral luck theory. Nagel believes that a person can really only be held fully responsible for what they do…

Brandon Balsirow Word Count: Title Here Attack or defend the principle of utility. Does it define right and wrong, good and evil? The principle of utility is insufficient to define right and wrong, or good and evil. Bentham asserts that humans are controlled by two feelings; pain and pleasure, and that they determine what we ought to do. Using this assumption about pain and pleasure, he comes up with the principle of utility. Actions are right as far as they promote happiness or wrong as far as…

Virtue ethics analyzes the general characteristics of the individual and whether or not the action is moral. Virtue ethics, for example, emphasizes both benevolence as well as honesty, and if one could argue that the NFL players kneeling during the anthem indicates benevolent and honest traits, then the action would be considered ethical according to virtue ethics. However, it is unclear whether the actions by the players are purely motivated by the desire to help others. Other motivations, for…

responsibility to help our fellow man in need or are we free to stand on the sidelines? Philosophers Jan Narveson and Peter Singer offer contrasting viewpoints on the moral obligations affluent nations have to aid and support the poor. Where Singer reasons that by having the privilege of living in nations of wealth, this benefit carries with it the moral obligation to help those around the world who are sentenced to live in absolute poverty, if only because of where fate had them born. In…

Q2: Galing Pook and Good Governance A) How did the concept of Good Governance occur in your galing pook case? The galing pook case I have chosen is the SARAGANI case wherein it took take a look at the programs in Sarangani Province. We all know how good governance is all about one major aim: GOODNESS in the society. Good governance was indeed very apparent in my galing pook case in Sarangani. Saragani is located in Mindanao whereas war is present everywhere. Saragani has all the means to be…

For now, let us avoid any further metaphysical gymnastics of the arguments of Bad Company Objections. But if we abandon the search of the acceptability conditions, what lesson could we learn from Bad Company Objection? There is an analogous matter which Ebert and Shapiro (1999, p.298) labelled ‘Good Company’. Assuming we have successfully constructed an account of acceptability which helps us to rule out ‘bad’ principles; there is another question that neo-Fregean logicists to answer. Why is it…