Why does past moral behavior sometimes lead people to do more of the same (consistency), whereas sometimes it liberates them to do the opposite (licensing)? We organize the literature on moderators of moral consistency versus licensing effects using five conceptual themes: construal level, progress versus commitment, identification, value reflection, and ambiguity. Our review reveals that indiv...

Human morality provides the foundation for many of the pillars of society, informing political legislation and guiding legal decisions while also governing everyday social interactions. In the past decade, researchers in the field of cognitive neuroscience have made tremendous progress in the effort to understand the neural basis of human morality. The emerging insights from this research point...

The purpose of this review is to stimulate a debate and doubts about future trends in vitreoretinal surgery and social and economic implications. We want to share with our colleagues the challenges of modern ophthalmic surgery in the era of technocratic medicine with the goal to conjugate the technological progress with economic sustainability and equity of access to health facilities and servi...

Two experimental studies examined the effect of power-seeking intentions on backlash toward women in political office. It was hypothesized that a female politician's career progress may be hindered by the belief that she seeks power, as this desire may violate prescribed communal expectations for women and thereby elicit interpersonal penalties. Results suggested that voting preferences for fem...

I have shown here the different roles that sympathy plays in the accounts of justice in the Treatise and Enquiry. In the former work, a redirected sympathy naturally extends our concern, and subsequently our moral approval or blame, to all those included within the scope of the rules of justice. In the Enquiry, we find this same progress of sentiments, but Hume’s introduction of the sentiment o...

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...

Why does past moral behavior sometimes lead people to do more of the same (consistency), whereas sometimes it liberates them to do the opposite (licensing)? We organize the literature on moderators of moral consistency versus licensing effects using five conceptual themes: construal level, progress versus commitment, identification, value reflection, and ambiguity. Our review reveals that indiv...

the main purpose of this research is assessing the reason for the gap between moral knowledge and action of students despite current programs of moral education in schools, and suggesting components of good moral education to reduce this gap from allameh tabatabai’s viewpoints. to achieve this goal, descriptive-analytic method is used. the findings showed that the main operating in violation of...

Thin as a Needle, Quick Flash: Murdoch on Agency and Moral Progress Jack Samuel I Iris murdoch’s The sovereignty of Good1—especially the first essay, “The Idea Perfection”—is often associated with critique certain picture agency its proper place in ethical thought. There is implicit this critique, however, an alternative, much richer picture. Though her immediate target Kantianism Stuart Hampsh...

What just societies owe to non-citizen immigrants is a controversial question. This paper considers three accounts of the requirements distributive justice for non-citizens determine what they might suggest about provision publicly funded health care pregnant undocumented immigrants. These are compared locate an overlapping consensus on duty state provide The aim this not take substantive posit...