Predicted outcome value theory

The Frege-Geach embedding problem is a problem that challenges expressivism, asking how it could be that moral and descriptive terms have the same semantic properties in complex sentences, but have different meanings. Expressivist theories of moral discourse deny that moral judgments express truth-apt propositions that describe states of affairs in the natural world. Instead, expressivists claim that moral judgments are taken to express non-truth-apt, or non-cognitive, attitudes of approval or…

Isolated Individual does not work; we have learned this by reading chapters before the 5th and 6th chapters. Permant personal relationships or to value of selfism, such as patience, duty, and self sacrifice which maintains a commitment. If these values are not there, it leads to not being conducive in the value of selfism. To maintain a commitment we have to have self-sacrifices. If I enter a relationship with a man that is to be my husband then I have to have patience, a responsibility to…

Philosophy 2400 Zhiyuan Li Is the general will always right? In November 2014, China released a draft amendment to its Criminal Law, including exempting nine crimes from the death penalty. However, a considerable number of people almost immediately expressed their strong disagreement on lightening punishment for those crimes and asked for the most severe punishment instead. If we regard reducing death penalty crimes as the general will, or what is best for the whole society, the opponents might…

“A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, written by Flannery O’Connor is a very intricate piece of writing. It compares and contrast good and evil by using visual descriptions of the scenery. “The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.” This imagery of the woods overshadows the evilness that prevails onto the family at the end of the story. This short story is about a family who doesn’t seem to get along very well. They bicker about everything and some of the characters…

that promote the most amount of human happiness. Actions that would be regarded as the least favorable are those that promote the opposite, unhappiness. The concept of Utilitarianism and that of Consequentialism are similar as both judge the moral value of an action dependent on its consequences, however each claim leads to different conclusions. As stated before Utilitarianism describes that we as a society attempt to find pleasure…

morals, where would life take us? Would there even be a meaning to life if everyone just did what they pleased without any significance behind it? If you don’t consider your values and beliefs, life could be a mess. Morals are in existence to guide your life to goals rather than be controlled by unhealthy habits and actions. Values and morals cannot only guide but inspire you a passion for living and doing something meaningful. For example, gymnastics is something that has helped me establish my…

“Towards a Theory of Privacy in the information Age,” James H. Moor explains greased information, the foundation and nature of privacy, and the adjustment of policies to ensure privacy under certain situations before proposing a control/restricted access theory of privacy. Moor argues that one of the problems of privacy is that once information is exposed, others can have access to it and use it, sometimes without consent. He then claims that privacy is not a core value, or an essential value…

for lying about his identity. By now, Huck is beginning to demonstrate that he is departing from the street moral code of instinctive, functional and situational mores. His morality is sensitized into evaluating the antebellum South’s unthinking values on tradition and honor, church and feuding as futile and pointless violence: “The men took their guns along, so did Buck, and kept them between their knees or stood them handy against the wall. The Shepherdsons done the same’ (169)” Later…

factor of human morale – which he expresses using the colours white, black, and grey. However, the reader should not expect to learn about morals through this story, as everyone possesses his or her own opinion, but rather should reconsider what they value is right and wrong. The exploration of colour in “The Lady with The Dog” proves insightful in understanding the author’s perspective towards morale of actions, even though Chekhov does not entertain the reader with an absolute verdict. Colour…

Every person reads each story in his or her own way whether it be slowly, fast, thorough, distant, personal, or analytically. When this is done meanings are formed and themes are developed. Most people identify a certain dynamic of the characters. In The Three Little Pigs, the pigs are good and the wolf is evil; good triumphs as always. This appears to be the obvious theme, the character the story is centered around is the hero and he defeats the villain. However, on closer inspection this…