BACKGROUND Moral philosophy and psychology have sought to define the nature of right and wrong, and good and evil. The industrial turn of the twentieth century fostered increasingly technological approaches that conjoined philosophy to psychology, and psychology to the natural sciences. Thus, moral philosophy and psychology became ever more vested to investigations of the anatomic structures an...

Psychology considered as a natural science began as Aristotelian “physics” or “natural philosophy” of the soul. C. Wolff placed psychology under metaphysics, coordinate with cosmology. Scottish thinkers placed it within moral philosophy, but distinguished its “physical” laws from properly moral laws (for guiding conduct). Several Germans sought to establish an autonomous empirical Psychology as...

Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis seems to be the place where man regained dominion over nature and at the center of this island we find Solomon’s House, a scientific society, effecting ‘all possible things’. But this unfinished work tells us very little about the composition, structure and selection procedure Bacon had in mind for his ideal society. Equally unclear is the reason why the projected a...

It is difficult to overemphasize the contribution of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845-1926) to modern economics. His general research program was indeed ambitious: the application of mathematics and statistics to economics (or, better, to the ‘moral sciences’).’ This program remains very much in the agenda of social science today. In this short paper I will concentrate on Edgeworth’s contribution...

The argument from disagreement is among the most important that has been directed against moral realism.1 Yet, in recent years it has been widely rejected – so widely, in fact, that even those who are sympathetic with irrealism have often found it unconvincing. One reason for this has to do with the fact that newer, more sophisticated versions of moral realism have recently emerged. Some of the...

Introduction: This research aimed to design and validate the education model of philosophy of life for students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences from the point of view of professors. Method: This qualitative research was performed on eight university professors selected through the purposeful sampling method. In the qualitative section, a semi-structured interview tool was used to coll...

Among naturalist philosophers, both defenders and opponents of moral relativism argue that prescriptive moral theories (or normative theories) should be constrained by empirical findings about human psychology. Empiricists have asked if people are or can be moral relativists, and what effect being a moral relativist can have on an individual’s moral functioning. This research is underutilized i...

Morality dignifies and elevates. When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, God said "Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil" (Gen. 3:22). In many of the world's religious traditions, the good go up, to heaven or a higher rebirth, and the bad go down, to hell or a lower rebirth. Even among secular people, moral motives are spoken of as the "highest" and "noblest" motives,...

Introduction The recent EPAT issue on Peirce and education (2005, 37/2) has explored Charles Sanders Peirce’s pragmatism mainly with regard to the problematics of learning and acquiring knowledge. This paper will shift the focus toward the moral dimension inherent in pragmatic philosophy. I will introduce a neologism, “moral stuttering”, as pertaining to real life problem solving and ethical de...