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21 paź 2024 · Ethics, the philosophical discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong. Its subject consists of fundamental issues of practical decision making, and its major concerns include the nature of ultimate value and the standards by which human actions can be morally evaluated.
- Objections to Consequentialism
Ethics - Objections, Consequentialism, Morality: Although...
- Ethics
Ethics - Ancient, Modern, Western: The first ethical...
- Socrates
Ethics - Socrates, Morality, Virtue: Socrates, who once...
- Machiavelli
Ethics - Machiavelli, Morality, Politics: Although the...
- Shaftesbury, Moral Sense, Philosophy
Ethics - Shaftesbury, Moral Sense, Philosophy: The term...
- Moore, Naturalistic Fallacy
Ethics - Moore, Naturalistic Fallacy: At first the scene was...
- Utilitarianism
Ethics - Utilitarianism, Morality, Consequentialism: At this...
- St. Augustine
Ethics - Augustine, Morality, Virtue: At its beginning...
- Objections to Consequentialism
15 sie 2023 · The dichotomy of good and bad, Nietzsche discovered, is ridden with biases formed out of the power relations of society. In history, it was the powerful and the wealthy, the aristocratic, who chose to call themselves good. They called the common people the poor, the lowly, the bad.
What do people find good, and what do they despise? What really is good, and what really is bad? The two questions are subtly different. One may answer the first question by researching the world by use of social science, and examining the preferences that people assert.
4 maj 2017 · Why do good people do terrible things to others? Why do bad things happen to good people? Students in two humanities courses this spring are examining the idea of evil through close reading and discussion of literary and philosophical texts from Plato to Flannery O'Connor.
2 sie 2023 · The question of what distinguishes “good” from “bad” people is one that has intrigued philosophers, ethicists, and individuals throughout history. While the answer is far from simple ...
26 lis 2013 · 1.4 Arguments in Favor of the Concept of Evil. Some people believe that we should not abandon the concept of evil because only the concept of evil can capture the moral significance of acts, characters, and events such as sadistic torture, serial killers, Hitler, and the Holocaust.
Nietzsche explores the historical and cultural origins of moral ideas—like “good,” “bad,” and “evil”—in his On the Genealogy of Morals. Nietzsche argues that although most modern Europeans assume that being kind, compassionate, patient, and gentle are fundamentally “good,” while being violent, cruel, and craving power are ...
