Moral philosophy: Including theoretical and practical ethics.

1879 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Haven
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Practical Ethics

Practical Neuropsychiatric Ethics

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bennett Foddy ◽  
Guy Kahane ◽  
Julian Savulescu
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Moral Motivation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Psychiatric Research ◽  
Clinical Use ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Practical Ethics ◽  
The Relationship

Philosophers have long been involved in the pursuit of a goal shared by researchers in psychiatry and the cognitive sciences: understanding the relationship between the functioning of the human mind and human well-being or suffering. For this reason there is a very large area of overlap between philosophical and psychiatric research. The overlap is particularly significant in the domain ofpractical ethics, which is concerned with understanding the moral dimension of policies and actions in the real world. This chapter reviews two distinct domains in which psychiatry and practical ethics overlap. First, issues in practical ethics arise out of new advances in psychopharmacology, including clinical and non-clinical use of new antidepressants drugs, the clinical use of placebo medications, and psychiatric drugs which enhance human cognition; these issues are frequently grouped under the banner of "neuroethics." Second, the understanding of fundamental questions in moral philosophy is being driven forward by evidence from psychology and psychiatry. Evidence from autism and the personality disorders is shedding light on the nature of moral motivation, while evidence from addiction and compulsion is generating progress in understanding moral responsibility. Finally, some areas are highlighted in which the science of psychiatry may benefit from the application of existing work in moral philosophy and practical ethics.

scholarly journals On Their Own Ground: Strategies of Resistance for Sunni Muslim Women

Hypatia ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 152-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Weynand Tobin
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Practical Ethics ◽  
The World ◽  
Alternative Methodology

Drawing from work in feminist moral philosophy, Tobin argues that the most common methodology used in practical ethics is a questionable methodology for addressing practical problems across diverse cultural contexts because the kind of impartiality it requires is neither feasible nor desirable. She then defends an alternative methodology for practical ethics in a global context and uses her proposed methodology to evaluate a problem that confronts many Sunni Muslim women around the world.

Practical Ethics

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey N. Younggren
Keyword(s):  
Practical Ethics

Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Smith
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
David Hume ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
Commercial Society ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The University

Adam Ferguson was a Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and a leading member of the Scottish Enlightenment. A friend of David Hume and Adam Smith, Ferguson was among the leading exponents of the Scottish Enlightenment’s attempts to develop a science of man and was among the first in the English speaking world to make use of the terms civilization, civil society, and political science. This book challenges many of the prevailing assumptions about Ferguson’s thinking. It explores how Ferguson sought to create a methodology for moral science that combined empirically based social theory with normative moralising with a view to supporting the virtuous education of the British elite. The Ferguson that emerges is far from the stereotyped image of a nostalgic republican sceptical about modernity, and instead is one much closer to the mainstream Scottish Enlightenment’s defence of eighteenth century British commercial society.

Perceptual-Imaginative Space and the Beautiful Ecologies of Rose Lowder's Bouquets

Paragraph ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 314-329
Author(s):  
Sarah Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Ecological Principles ◽  
Short Films ◽  
Ecological Concern

Experimental filmmaker Rose Lowder is an intricate explorer of perception. Many of her exquisite silent short films feature flowers that are scrutinized frame by frame in shots that appear to have layers, as well as volume, and to quiver between simultaneity and succession. Yet these perceptual palimpsests that present almost too much for the eye to take in also reveal an as yet unexplored relation to imagination. Informed by ecological principles and foregrounding floral beauty, Lowder's Bouquets create a striking bond between perceptual and imaginative space. This article draws upon twentieth-century phenomenological accounts of perception before delving into earlier historical discussions of beauty in nature and in art, and bringing out connections to moral philosophy and feminist ecophilosophy, in order to understand how the beautiful entwines with ecological concern in the perceptual-imaginative space of her films.

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