ADVENT OF CAPITALISM: MORAL COLLAPSE OR MODERNIZATION OF MORAL?

The Moral of Moral Luck

The community of nursing: moral friends, moral strangers, moral family.

Unlike bioethicists who contend that there is a morality common to all, H. Tristan Engelhardt (1996) argues that, in a pluralistic secular society, any morality that does exist is loosely connected, lacks substantive moral content, is based on the principle of permission and, thus, is a morality between moral strangers. This, says Engelhardt, stands in contrast to a substance-full morality that...

Moral typecasting: divergent perceptions of moral agents and moral patients.

Moral agency is the capacity to do right or wrong, whereas moral patiency is the capacity to be a target of right or wrong. Through 7 studies, the authors explored moral typecasting-an inverse relation between perceptions of moral agency and moral patiency. Across a range of targets and situations, good- and evil-doers (moral agents) were perceived to be less vulnerable to having good and evil ...

Discussion of “Liquidity, Moral Hazard, and Interbank Market Collapse”

Financial intermediaries, such as banks, perform many roles: they screen risks, evaluate and fund worthy entrepreneurs, pool risks, monitor borrowers, refinance projects, and—when confronted with the default in their loans—they perform a valuable role in loss discovery and assessing whether the bankrupt concern is economically viable or not. All these activities, which constitute the actions of...

Different types of moral cognition: Moral stages versus moral foundations

0191-8869/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.04.018 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 18438106828; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] (G.L. Baril),wr Two measures of moral cognition were compared across three samples: Rest’s neo-Kohlbergian stages of moral developmental (DIT) and Graham and Haidt’s intuition-based Moral Foundations Theory (MFQ). I...