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Idealist ethics is commonly based around ideal exemplars used, not simply to illustrate the instantiation of antecedently grasped values, but rather as a way of understanding or conceiving those values themselves.
Idealization procedures play an important role in many ethical theories. The concept of an idealized individual, one who possesses certain perfections or other desirable qualities, can represent a useful moral exemplar and provide moral guidance.
20 maj 2020 · I will offer a set of concepts and principles to improve transparency about the precise contents of idealizations (in terms of negligibility, applicability, tractability, and early-step status) and their distinct functions (such as contributing to minimal modeling, benchmark modeling, and how-possibly modeling). 1.
While all three kinds of idealization can be found in scientific practice, they share enough in common that they can be characterized and studied in a unified way. The key is to focus not just on the practice and products of idealization, but on the goals governing and guiding it.
21 sty 2016 · Abstract. Continuing the discussion of idealist arguments that might be given for concerning oneself with the well-being of others, this chapter examines the British Idealist theory of the organic social whole (focusing on the common good theory of T. H. Green, F. H. Bradley, and Marietta Kies), and the Personal Idealist theory of community ...
The role of ideals and idealizations is among the most vigorously debated methodological questions in political theory. Yet, the debate seems at an impasse. This paper argues that this reflects a fundamental ambiguity over idealization's intended inferential logic: the precise way in which idealizations might yield normative knowledge. I ...
8 sty 2010 · Recent critics of abstraction are opposed not only to theories of rights, and the Kantian notions with which these are linked, but also to consequentialist ethical theories. The two ethical theories that are most influential in the English-speaking world now both stand accused of being too abstract. Type.
