Moral treatment

According to David Hume, everybody makes moral distinctions, and every one of us is affected by considerations of moral and immoral. That is, what we call "good" and "bad" it cannot be considered as something that is a property of a moral action. Therefore, if we analyze a moral action, either "good" or "bad," and we describe its properties, it will not appear "good" or "bad" as a quality of the object involved in the action, but it will appear one "feel" of the approval or disapproval of the…

Moral luck occurs whenever luck makes a moral difference in two or more cases. The problem of moral luck arises from a conflict between the widely held intuition that moral luck should not occur in moral judgment with the fact that it is arguably impossible to prevent it from happening. Before getting into the problem which luck occurs and makes a moral difference, let’s look at a case to test an intuition. Suppose, there is a person A behind me who is tripped by the uneven floor, and the person…

that the attached piece of written work is my own work and that I have not reproduced, without acknowledgment, the work of another.  In this essay I will refute the notion that the type of free will worth wanting, or the kind that grants us moral responsibility, is not incumbent upon an ability to do otherwise. To do so, I will first summarize what proponents of this theory, or the Principal of Alternative Possibilities, are convinced of, and why they feel it is true. Then, I will…

Kant and many other philosophers hold that one has duties to oneself, including a duty to refrain from harmful activities. I, like Kant and many philosophers, believe that there can be duties that one owes to oneself. Refraining from smoking is one of these duties owed to oneself. Robert E. Goodin used a paternalist perspective to describe refraining from smoking as a duty owed to oneself. He explains that public officials are bound to evaluate one’s preferences and judge them according to a…

postmodern worldview, everything is contingent; nothing is fixed” They think beliefs and morals depend on the individual’s perception. They do not believe in a moral standing, instead, right and wrong is defined by what the individual desires to be right and wrong. Individuals with the postmodern worldview believe everyone has a different answer and action to a situation. Their answer and…

First, principle of universalism justifies the moral subprinciple of the voluntary association. A married couple forms a kind of volunteer group, like the football team example mentioned above, and the freedom component of universalism justified any rules or preferences set up between couples. Second…

examples what is meant by moral absolutism. [25] Moral absolutism is the ethical belief that there are absolute standards against which morality can be judged, and that actions are intrinsically right or wrong, regardless of the context of the act, or the culture, time or place. Moral absolutists believe that there is a universal set of absolutes which are true for all time, in all place and all situations, and every person has an obligation to follow these absolutes. Moral absolutism is…

Stanley English 100 19 October 2017 A Defense Of Moral Relativism Ethical relativism or Moral relativism is the proposition that what is considered moral or immoral or what is wrong or right depends on culture norms, and what behaviors is accepted in different societies in which a decision is made. Also what can be deemed as immoral or moral, bad may be good and ethical in another's society Many cultures differ in their moral practices. These moral and ethical decisions are also based off of…

opposite of each other, because of their meaning. But Wilde puts it into one category which determines disobedience as a good thing next to the list of goodness, righteous, honesty, kindness, and obedience. Since virtue already is determined as a high moral standard, disobedience compared to it allows people to see and understand what Wild means when he says, “Disobedience is a man's original virtue”. He wants them to comprehend that it is okay and that it is right to disobey and go against…

Objectivism claims that some moral standards are true and some are false and that does not depend in anyway on what people want or believe. This claim is argued by J.L. Mackie, his thesis is that there are no objective values or moral fact. He argues ethical objectivism with two arguments which are the argument of relativity and the argument of queerness. I will argue that ethical objectivism’s argument that there are some moral standards that are impartially correct and some moral assertions…