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20 gru 2005 · For the most part, the philosophical history of the relation between identity and ethics up until the 17 th Century is about the relation between identity and self-regarding practical concerns. Plato is a prime example.
Personal Identity and Applied Ethics introduces and examines different conceptions of the self, our nature, and personal identity and considers the implications of these for applied ethics.
As a philosophical discipline of study, ethics is a systematic approach to under-standing, analyzing, and distinguishing matters of right and wrong, good and bad, and admirable and deplorable as they relate to the well-being of and the relation-ships among sentient beings.
25 maj 2021 · This chapter argues that in contrast to Non-reductionist views, Psychological Reductionism, a version of the Reductionist View that assumes a psychological criterion of personal identity, supports the kind of impersonal moral outlook that Parfit describes.
20 gru 2005 · 1. Historical Highlights of the Relation. For the most part, the philosophical history of the relation between identity and normativity up until the 17 th Century is really about the relation between identity and prudential concern, and not ethics per se. Plato is a prime example. He held in the Phaedo that I (and all persons) will survive the death and destruction of my body insofar as what I ...
14 lis 2017 · Practical and narrative theories of personal identity and moral agency. Personal identity and issues in applied ethics, including abortion, organ transplantation, and the idea of life after death. Implications of life-extending technologies for personal identity.
Summary. The most accessible paper in this volume, “Philosophy as Ethics” traces the historical origins of philosophy and the initial spur to philosophizing to the desire to justify values. Ethics, on this view, includes “aesthetics, political philosophy, and the philosophical parts of moral theology” and is at the root of the main ...
