scholarly journals Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Moral Practice

scholarly journals Ethical Theory and Moral Practice at 24

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Lubomira Radoilska ◽  
Emanuela Ceva
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Moral Practice ◽  
Recent Developments

AbstractThis Editorial outlines recent developments in the Journal’s scope, mission and review policy. It also illustrates the range of topics addressed on the pages of Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, which is now entering its 24th year.

Referent-Models of Loving: A Philosophical and Theological analysis of Love in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

1968 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur J. Dyck
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Moral Norm ◽  
Moral Practice ◽  
Ten Commandments ◽  
Contemporary Christian

Love as a moral norm has a very prominent place within the discussions of contemporary Christian ethics. There are three definite trends especially evident in the most popular of these discussions of love. In the first instance, there is a tendency to make love serve as the sole norm in ethics. There is a second tendency to equate love with beneficence. This means, among other things, that love tends to be put into a utilitarian type of calculus and that specific norms such as the Ten Commandments are either played down or dropped entirely. Both of these views of love, by themselves or held in concert, collapse the traditional distinction between love and justice. There is yet a third ten-1 dency to drop any distinction between love for God and love for/the neighbor. Love for God is simply to be understood as love for the neighbor and, as such, it is not something to pursue or cultivate for its own sake. That all three of these tendencies are significantly related to one another should become evident from our further discussion of them.

scholarly journals Science, Ethics and Observation

2013 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 261-274
Author(s):  
James Lenman
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Ethical Reflection ◽  
Moral Practice ◽  
Moral Philosopher ◽  
Science Ethics ◽  
Empirical Question ◽  
Empirical Inquiry ◽  
The Core

AbstractThis paper examines the idea that ethics might be understood as a domain of straightforwardly empirical inquiry with reference to two of its defenders. Sam Harris has recently urged that ethics is simply the scientific study of welfare and how best to maximize it. That is of course to presuppose the truth of utilitarianism, something Harris considers too obvious to be sensibly contested. Richard Boyd's more nuanced and thoughtful position takes the truth of the ethical theory – homeostatic consequentialism – he favours to be determined by what best explains the success of moral practice over its history. But what is to count here as success is too theory dependent for this to be helpful. From consideration of both Harris and Boyd, the conclusion emerges that once we have satisfied ourselves by ethical reflection about what we ought to do, it may then be a straightforwardly empirical question how to do it, but that arriving at that point, the core concern of the moral philosopher, is far less clearly a straightforwardly empirical affair.

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