Essays about: "Moral Realism"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words Moral Realism.
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1. History, Progress, Morality : An Inquiry on the Metaethics of Moral Progress
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälleAbstract : In this essay, I examine the interplay between history, progress, and morality, as it is discussed explicitly or implicitly in the metaethical literature. At first sight, it is perhaps intuitive that these three are necessarily intertwined and mutually dependent, as if they were casually connected. READ MORE
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2. The Moral Constraint on Political Principles in Bernard Williams’s Political Realism
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This essay argues that Bernard Williams’s political realism presupposes a moral constraint on the political principle of legitimacy, and that Williams’s realism does not articulate a distinctive political normativity. To critically engage with the ethical idea of a moral constraint on political principles, Williams’s ethics is contrasted with Rosalind Hursthouse’s neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics. READ MORE
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3. The “Dirty Hands Dilemma” in Politics : A Study on Political Ethics
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : When faced with an emergency situation, politicians are often forced to sacrifice their core moral principles in order to better serve the immediate public interest. This is commonly described as the Dirty Hands dilemma. Dirty Hands theorists conditionally defend politicians, but they leave the dilemma under-defined. READ MORE
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4. RISK, RESPECT & UNSPEAKABLE ACTS : Untangling Intimate-Sexual Consent through 'Intuitive Inquiry' & 'Agential Realism'
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Centrum för genusforskning (from 2013)Abstract : In an attempt to address the issues in research and theory on consent, this thesis explores what consent can be seen as "doing" through an 'Intuitive Inquiry' (Anderson 2011a) and 'Agential Realism' (Barad 2007). Various manifestations of consent appears through: the experience of the researcher, consent research and theory, consent legislation, interviews with professionals in intimate-sexual consent, and, feminist fanzines. READ MORE
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5. Actants and Networks in 'Skagboys' – Thatcher, Crime and Mundane Artifacts as Mediators
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : While Skagboys portrays the descent into heroin addiction of young, working class Scots during the Thatcher era, shifting the analysis from a strictly human perspective to one focusing on the agency of objects opens up the novel to new readings wherein morality emerges through nonhuman actors. Welsh’s work has traditionally been hailed as Scottish working-class realism that portrays its characters unideologically, to the point that the novels, through the characters, appear without morality. READ MORE
