Essays about: "ethics and morality"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 42 essays containing the words ethics and morality.

1. 1. Pipelines, provocateurs and pacifists

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Johanna Spetz; [2024]
   Keywords : Climate change; climate activism; violence; nonviolence; deontology; consequentialism; values; ethics.; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Would you fight climate change at any cost? In the modern day debate, opinions on the appropriate measures to draw attention to the climate crisis are divided. When conventional methods fall short, some activists resort to more assertive approaches. READ MORE

3. 2. A Defense of the Permissibility of Prejudice

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

   Author : Lucas Lainpelto; [2023]
   Keywords : Prejudice; stereotypes; epistemology; ethics;

   Abstract : This paper argues for the counter intuitive notion that some prejudice is morally justified. The argument is divided up into three parts: (1) what prejudice is, (2) the role of epistemology and (3) the final moral argument. The first section initially establishes a working definition which allows prejudice to be justified epistemically. READ MORE

4. 3. Ethics after the Apocalypse : Teaching Right and Wrong through and Analysis of Cormac McCarthy's The Road

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

   Author : Rim Winssi; [2023]
   Keywords : Cormac McCarthy; The Road; Ethics; Consequentialism; Deontology; Virtue Ethics; Swedish National Agency of Education; English; Philosophy; Upper-secondary school;

   Abstract : In our world and our modern society, we have laws, ethics, morality, and religion that guide us, teaching us the basic principles of what is right and what is wrong, and what is good and what is bad. However, what would happen if all of these guides suddenly cease to exist? In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, this is exactly what happens. READ MORE

5. 4. The “Dirty Hands Dilemma” in Politics : A Study on Political Ethics

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Siddhartha Kumar Dhar; [2022]
   Keywords : Dirty Hands; Political Morality; Political Realism; Public Ethics; Political Compromise; Political Integrity; Moral Dilemmas; Conceptual Analysis; Reflective Equilibrium;

   Abstract : 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

6. 5. Cannibalism Is Not Inherently Immoral : A Philosophical Study of Morality and Cannibalism

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

   Author : Rebecca Blomberg; [2022]
   Keywords : Cannibalism; Armin Meiwes; Meiwes; German cannibal; Cannibal; Moral; Morality; Immoral; Immorality; Philosophy; Ethics; Autonomy; Morality in cannibalism; cannibalism moral; cannibalism morality; consent; moral philosophyy; Kannibalism; kannibal; filosofi; etik; moral; samtycke; Armin Meiwes; Tysk kannibal; moralisk kannibalism; moral i kannibalism; moralfilosofi; autonomi;

   Abstract : This essay argues that cannibalism is not inherently immoral. To demonstrate this, I have analyzed the ethics of cannibalism through the perspective of consent, rights, autonomy, and consumption of flesh. I have defined the concepts of cannibalism and morality. READ MORE