When does benefiting from others' wrongdoing effectively make one a moral accomplice in their evil deeds? If stem cell research lives up to its therapeutic promise, this question (which has previously cropped up in debates over fetal tissue research or the use of Nazi research data) is likely to become a central one for opponents of embryo destruction. I argue that benefiting from wrongdoing is...

Recent research suggests that self-righteousness is bounded, arising more reliably in evaluations of immoral actions than in evaluations of moral actions. Here, we test four implications of this asymmetry in self-righteousness and the mechanism explaining it. We find that people are less likely to make negative character inferences from their own unethical behavior than from others' unethical b...

Hannah Arendt identifies the onset of genocide under the Nazi regime with the declaration that ‘the German people not only were unwilling to have any Jews in Germany, but wished to make the entire Jewish people disappear from the face of the earth.’1 Arendt famously, and unpopularly, contended that the crime was a crime against humanity, perpetrated upon the body of the Jewish people.2 Eichmann...

If there is to be a problem of evil, there must be some ethical requirement which is applicable to divine action, and which arguably is not met in the actual world. Once such a requirement has been identified, it becomes the task of the theodicist to argue either that the proposed requirement does not hold, or that the requirement is in fact met. One of the most popular candidates for this role...

El objetivo central de este artículo es exponer las herramientas que la fenomenología husserliana aporta a definición, descripción y análisis del mal moral. Parto distinción Ricoeuriana entre moral sufrimiento, con intención justificar introducción instrumental husserliano en ambas esferas. Me interesa analizar esta un marco interpretación fenomenológico nos permita explicar el sufrimiento como...

OBJECTIVES To compare moral development and psychopathological interference with conscience functioning (PI) among adolescents exposed to different degrees of earthquake-related trauma and to investigate the relationship of moral development and PI to exposure to trauma, severity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, postearthquake adversities, and extent of loss of nuclear family m...

Evil is a concept that has fascinated and puzzled humankind for centuries. We confront evil on large scales, such as the Holocaust, on smaller scales, such as serial killers, and in day-to-day interactions that involve discrimination against or exploitation of others. During moments of reflection, we may even acknowledge the capacity for evil within ourselves. We are exposed daily to evil inten...

Abstract According to one understanding of the problem dirty hands, every case hands is an instance moral conflict, but not conflict a hands. So, what sets two apart? The literature has offered widely different answers this question there been relatively little discussion about their relative merits as well challenges. In paper I evaluate these accounts by making clear which concept distinctnes...

In his book Is a Good God Logically Possible?, James Sterba argues that the Plantingian free-will defense, which reconciles existence of good and omnipotent with evil, is failed argument when it comes to terrible evils in world. This study discusses Sterba’s claim invalid Plantinga’s defense modified structural perspective. order reconcile inevitable possibility evil God’s moral imperatives, wa...

One of the most striking and most important developments in American moral discourse on uses of military force over the past forty-odd years has been the recovery and practical use of the idea of just war to guide moral analysis and judgment. As a result, various forms of just war discourse can be found today in religious, philosophical, military, political, and legal contexts, and while there ...