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May 6, 2022 · It is shown that universal ethics could be founded on natural law, which can be understood in both religious and secular ways. Alternatively, universal ethics could be based on a single supreme principle that is independent of worldview and culture: human dignity.
Universalism in ethics may be identified with claims about the form, scope or content of ethical principles, or with the very idea that ethical judgment appeals to principles, rather than to particular cases.
Feb 23, 2004 · The most basic aim of moral philosophy, and so also of the Groundwork, is, in Kant’s view, to “seek out” the foundational principle of a “metaphysics of morals,” which Kant understands as a system of a priori moral principles that apply the CI to human persons in all times and cultures.
- Robert Johnson, Adam Cureton
- 2004
Abstract. This paper analyzes the political, philosophical, societal, legal, educational, biologi-cal, psychological and technological reasons why there is an urgent need for basic intercultural and interfaith ethics in the world and whether it is possible to formulate a valid code of such ethics.
Oct 21, 2024 · ethics, the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong. The term is also applied to any system or theory of moral values or principles. (Read Britannica’s biography of this author, Peter Singer.)
- The term ethics may refer to the philosophical study of the concepts of moral right and wrong and moral good and bad, to any philosophical theory o...
- Traditionally, ethics referred to the philosophical study of morality, the latter being a more or less systematic set of beliefs, usually held in c...
- Ethics matters because (1) it is part of how many groups define themselves and thus part of the identity of their individual members, (2) other-reg...
- No. Understood as equivalent to morality, ethics could be studied as a social-psychological or historical phenomenon, but in that case it would be...
One very influential understanding of universalism in ethics, shared by many religions, by the natural law and liberal traditions, and by many others, is the contention that ethical principles are universal in form and cosmopolitan in scope, in that they hold for all humans.
Jul 18, 2003 · In what follows we sketch four distinct forms taken by contemporary virtue ethics, namely, a) eudaimonist virtue ethics, b) agent-based and exemplarist virtue ethics, c) target-centered virtue ethics, and d) Platonistic virtue ethics.
