Moral rationalization is an individual’s ability to reinterpret his or her immoral actions as, in fact, moral. It arises out of a conflict of motivations and a need to see the self as moral. This article presents a model of evil behavior demonstrating how situational factors that obscure moral relevance can interact with moral rationalization and lead to a violation of moral principles. Concept...

This paper presents an intr{gluction to a theory of rationalization for autonomous agents covering three kinds of rationalization: goal-bas~xl, belief based, and assumption-based rationalization. Wc show that the COMINT model of decisioa making (Botclho & (’oelho 1996) enables us to approach rationalization in a rather natural fashion. Namely, it presents an automatic (as opposed to deliberativ...

based on a meta-theoretical analysis of voting, the present paper is an attempt to present a theoretical model encompassing all the possible aspects of voting in an election action system, proposing four sub-systems of voting as follows: economic voting, political voting, cultural voting and moral voting. having distinguished among these sub-systems, the writer describes the constitutive elemen...

This article constructs a new framework for the study of games as sites of social rationalization, applying Feenberg’s critical theory of technology. We begin by making the case for a consideration of games as systems of social rationality, akin to other modern systems such as capitalist markets and bureaucratic organizations. We then present a conceptualization of play as a process through whi...

Abstract Most people in countries with the highest climate impact per capita are well aware of crisis and do not deny science. They worry about have engaged attitudes. Still, their greenhouse-gas emissions often high. How can we understand acting contrary to our knowledge? A simple answer is that want give up on benefits or compromise quality life. However, it painful live discrepancies between...

Current drug discovery strategies include both molecular and empirical approaches. The molecular approaches are predominantly hypothesis-driven and are referred to as target-based. The empirical approaches are referred to as phenotypic because they rely on phenotypic measures of response. A recent analysis revealed the phenotypic approaches to be the more successful strategy for small-molecule,...