Questions tagged [ethics]
For questions about ethics, a branch of philosophy dealing with morality, justice, virtue, vice, good and evil.
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Is it philosophically consistent to reject objective morality while accepting scientific realism? [closed]
I want to ask whether denying objective moral truths while accepting scientific realism is a coherent philosophical position.
Morality must be objective — or else something breaks.
The belief in ...
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Infinite observation loop + emotion-stabilizing logic =? [closed]
In my book ‘War Between Emotions and Thoughts’, absolute thinking births emotions that stabilize unstable logic. Does this solve self-referential paradoxes?
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Kant says: ethics arises from pure practical reason. Is this sufficient to derive an “ought”?
Pure reason, as a formal capacity to universalize principles, can establish the logical coherence of a rule, but not its normative force. From the fact that a principle can be conceived without ...
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Is there a limit to how much charisma is ethical? [closed]
When we think of people with high levels of charisma, many bad examples can come to mind: charlatans, con artists, politicians we think are bad, etc... Moreover, charismatic people often have the ...
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Trolley problem variant [closed]
In the standard trolley problem, one must choose between diverting a trolley to kill one person or allowing it to kill several. Consider the following variant.
A trolley is headed toward a split ...
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Does morality presuppose the continued existence of moral agents?
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Based on the discussion so far, I realize my original wording focused too much on the example rather than the underlying concern. What I am really asking is whether we should ...
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Who decides what life is worth? [closed]
I swat mosquitos - they annoy and hurt me. Some people annoy and hurt me. Can I swat them?
(by swat, I imply kill)
Perhaps not, but where are the lines, and who draws them? Am I wrong to swat ...
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What has been said about suicide?
Some people decide to end to their lives because they are suffocated by their problems and they are not able to overcome them.
I am firmly convinced that suicide cannot be a solution to the ...
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How can moral realism be logically justified and logically consistent without deontology?
How can moral realism be logically justified and logically consistent without deontology?
Moral realism means that there are objective moral values existing independently from the person.
Deontology ...
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Is this argument relating to morality sound?
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If we assume that the world is fair i.e. good people have good lives and bad people have bad lives and people are rational i.e. they know the world is fair and don't want bad lives, then ...
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Categoricity of Moral Demands
I'm trying to understand what categorical means when referring to morality and moral demands. Foot's article (Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives) has given me the impression that it is ...
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In what sense is God - as portrayed in monotheistic traditions - a 'moral' being, if God has created morality?
If moral values are seen as coming from God, then what makes these values ‘moral’ in the first place? Is it because they are inherently moral (and what would this mean?); or is it because these values ...
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Does Singer's argument in "Famine, Affluence and Morality" assume utilitarianism?
Let utilitarianism mean: a right action is an action that maximises the good, with the good understood according to hedonism.
You may take any other preferred definition of utilitarianism, including ...
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How does one assess the success or failure of (a) human life, without morality?
I am plagued by extremely immoral people. How might I assess whether their lives are vanity, without relying on moral claims such as your methods are depraved. Meaning and living well cannot simply be ...
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Are the Bhagavad Gita’s ideas on non-attached action discussed in contemporary academic philosophy?
The Bhagavad Gita presents arguments relevant to debates on non-duality, epistemic limitation, and action. It emphasizes that human perception is limited (since everything we do is limited by our 5 ...
