2025年1月14日 · A better example is probably: would it have been ethical for someone in 1940s Germany to illegally hide Jews to protect them from being killed by Nazi officers. Most people today …

It refers to specific controversial social or legal issues, such as nuclear war, animal rights, capital punishment, abortion, and so on. The goal there is to apply the ethical principles established in the …

2023年5月5日 · This teaches philosophy students to approach ethical questions as a bounded problem, with certain outcomes, not to exercise imagination upon them, to treat humans as abstractions …

2024年1月9日 · Those arguments often involve examples that are very extreme and completely detached from reality, which doesn't mean it's a bad principle for non-extremes. People like to …

Kant's ethics applies to all situations in which somebody does an intentional action. So looking for a range of 'realistic' - real life, true to life, matter of fact, everyday, &c. - situations to which it applies …

2022年3月15日 · Are there cogent arguments for moral subjectivism? Although people might conflate their own desires with the supposed will of God, still, defining morality relative to God at least means …

2015年8月16日 · I don't see how this answers the question about the ethics of time travel. Perhaps that these ethical questions don't matter because other events will balance any change the time traveler …

2025年1月9日 · But is that really possible? From the same article: Decision theory underlies game theory because a game’s solution identifies rational choices in the decision problems the game …

2018年3月30日 · That way, the ethical norms of a society can be adjusted by public debate. If the faith you choose leads to a choice of ethical values, there is nothing wrong with that. But the problem …

2015年5月27日 · Your question seems to concern the use of such arguments to promote religious or magical thinking. Indeed religion often attempts to answer metaphysical and ethical questions, and …