Digestion and Moral Progress in Epictetus

Slavery, Carbon, and Moral Progress

My goal in this paper is to shed light on how moral progress actually occurs. I begin by restating a conception of moral progress that I set out in previous work, the BNaïve Conception,^ and explain how it comports with various normative and metaethical views. I go on to develop an index of moral progress and show how judgments about moral progress can be made. I then discuss an example of mora...

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Comparing and integrating biological and cultural moral progress

Moral progress may be a matter of time scale. If intuitive measures for moral progress like the degree of physical violence within a society are taken as empirical markers, then most human societies have experienced moral progress in the last few centuries. However, if the development of the human species is taken as relevant time scale, there is evidence that humanity has experienced a global ...

The Notion of Moral Progress. in Hume’s Philosophy: Does Hume Have a Theory ofMoral Progress?

Progress and Problems in Producing Nitrogen Dioxide-Philic Plants

The recently published articles in the Iranian Journal of Biotechnology inspired us to write this short communication on nitrogen dioxide NO2-phili...

Moral Repair and the Moral Saints Problem

This article explores the forms of moral repair that the wrongdoer has to perform in an attempt to make amends for her past wrongdoing, with a focus on the issues of interpersonal moral repair; that is, what a wrongdoer can do to merit her victim‘s forgiveness and achieve reconciliation with her community. The article argues against the very general demands of atonement that amount to an obliga...