ACHIEVEMENT AS A MORAL SYSTEM

Hatred as a Moral and Ethical Conception in Russian Society

The present paper deals with the national specifics of the assessment aspect in the meaning of the words. A modern scientific paradigm considers the language as a cognitive tool of understanding the world and keeping and representing people’s experience and values which reflect the people’s vision of the world (“the world picture). Usually linguistics understands the language ...

Maldynia as a moral judgment?

Lippe rejected out of hand the idea advanced by Morris [5] that pain was a pluralistic concept. Rather, he asserted “the biomedical basis of maldynia.” In Lippe’s medicocentric view of pain, “maldynia” was neither a symptom nor a syndrome but an “illness with endogenous and exogenous components.” Thus defined, “eudynia” becomes a teleologically beneficial mechanism, whereas “maldynia” is “usele...

Boulding as a Moral Scientist

Kenneth Boulding’s AEA presidential address argued that economics is a moral science. His view derived from his general systems theory thinking, his three systems view of human society, and his early contributions to evolutionary economics. Boulding’s argument that economics could not be value-free should be distinguished from other well-known views of economics as a moral science, such as Gunn...

Moral Sensitivity as a Precondition of Moral Distress.

Becoming a Moral Person – Moral Development and Moral Character Education as a Result of Social Interactions

M. Christen et al. (eds.), Empirically Informed Ethics: Morality between Facts and Norms, Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 32, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-01369-5_13, © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 It is commonly assumed that humans do not begin life with moral character or virtue. Most documented societies through history considered infants to be unformed persons, not y...