Does Hegel's Critique of Kant's Moral Theory Apply to Discourse Ethics?

8 Does Market Theory Apply to Biology ?

Traditionally, market models in economics describe interactions in which the commodities traded are subject to complete contracts that are enforceable at no cost. Such contracts do not exist among other animals. In conventional economic models, there is also no account of who meets whom, what the traders know, and how they settle on a transaction, whereas these aspects play a major role in biol...

Moral Intuition, Moral Theory, and Practical Ethics

Triune Ethics: A New Moral Psychological Theory

Triune Ethics Theory (TET) is a psychological theory developed to meet three goals. First, it attempts to harvest critical findings from neurobiology, affective neuroscience, and cognitive science and to integrate them into moral psychology for the purpose of informing psychological research on the moral life of persons. In contrast to dominant theories that focus on top-down, deliberative reas...

Is Moral Theory Useful in Practical Ethics?

Many applied or practical ethicists hold that ethical theories have little value in practical ethics. The theories such critics have in mind are probably most often utilitarianism and a Kantian ethics of respect for persons, which I shall refer to as RP theory. This criticism applies to both practical ethics done in the classroom and in other venues, such as professional publication. The critic...

تحلیل و نقد کتاب Ethics: A Pluralistic Approach to Moral theory

در عصر ارتباط فرهنگ‌های متکثر با یکدیگر یکی از مسئولیت‌های فیلسوفان اخلاق، جلوگیری از نزاع‌های اخلاقی است تا فرهنگ‌های مختلف با به رسمیت شناختن یکدیگر، و با تکیه بر اشتراکات بشری، روابطی اخلاقی و عدالت‌محورانه را در سراسر جهان نظریه‌پردازی کنند. در مراودات فرهنگیِ فراگیر از طریق فضای مجازی، تبعیض‌های نژادی، قومی، و جنسیتی امنیت جهانی را به خطر خواهد انداخت از این رو باید به نگرش‌های وحدت بخش اخل...