kant believes that the concepts of a just and compassionate god and the life beyond death spring from our rational need to unite happiness with virtue. but since kant had banished happiness from any place in moral reasoning, his philosophy of religion have been deemed as not merely discontinuous with his ethics but radically opposed to it. this article tries to argue against this apparent incon...

The present essay discusses the relationship between moral philosophy, psychology and education based on virtue ethics, contemporary neuroscience, and how neuroscientific methods can contribute to studies of moral virtue and character. First, the present essay considers whether the mechanism of moral motivation and developmental model of virtue and character are well supported by neuroscientifi...

An important role of normative economics is to provide an analytical framework to evaluate social states. Such an evaluation is based on value judgments derived from moral views of the members of the society. There exist three major approaches in normative ethics, which formalize many people’s moral views. These are consequentialism that focuses on consequences of actions such as utilitarianism...

Moral particularism is commonly presented as an alternative to ‘principleor rule-based’ approaches to ethics, such as consequentialism or Kantianism. This paper argues that particularists’ aversions to consequentialism stem not from a structural feature of consequentialism per se, but from substantial and structural axiological views traditionally associated with consequentialism. Given a parti...

Introduction This chapter introduces some basic philosophical approaches that are useful in understanding and evaluating ethical consumption issues and ethical consumer behaviour. The chapter is divided into three sections. The first section introduces the two main approaches to ethics in moral philosophy, ‘consequentialism’ and ‘deontology’, and considers how appropriate they are when applied ...

Aristotle and Plato were the chief architects of virtue ethics, but their own formulation ethics was mostly subdued with appearance consequentialism as well Kantian deontology. However, modem thinkers have attempted to revive in its new form this regard name which is popularly known G.E.M. Anscombe. In fact Anscombe clearly indicates what sense can be revived wrong traditional expounded by Plat...

Both normative theories of ethics in philosophy and contemporary models of moral judgment in psychology have focused almost exclusively on the permissibility of acts, in particular whether acts should be judged on the basis of their material outcomes (consequentialist ethics) or on the basis of rules, duties, and obligations (deontological ethics). However, a longstanding third perspective on m...

Abstract Out of the three major approaches to ethics, virtue ethics is uniquely well suited as a moral guide in digital age, given pace sociotechnical change and complexity society. Virtue focuses on traits, situations actions agents, rather than rules (as deontology) or outcomes (consequentialism). Even interest has grown within information behavior (IB), there been little engagement with ethi...