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 ...