Essays about: "Aristotelian Ethics"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Aristotelian Ethics.
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1. The Virtues of a Hero : Virtue Ethics and the Divine in Star Wars and Warhammer 40,000
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis examines how ethics and various conceptualizations of the divine are explored and expressed in contemporary fiction, and in this particular case, in Star Wars and Warhammer 40,000. It is meant to highlight the philosophical underpinnings within these works, and to discuss how readers and consumers of such fiction and media may be affected in their views regarding religiosity and ethics. 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 Role of Literature in Character Education: On the Formation of the Modern 'Self' in Contemporary Liberal Schooling
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för barndom, utbildning och samhälle (BUS)Abstract : With the liberalisation of the society and education in the Western Countries, new development horizons have emerged thus altering our expectations from the younger generation and our vision of human fulfilment and happiness. As Dewey stressed, the current advance of technology and democratic ways of life results in the unprecedented rate and speed of changes and ‘it is impossible to foretell definitely just what civilization will be twenty years from now. READ MORE
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4. A summary of and a phenomenological study on ethics within the project management practitioner community
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Industriell teknikAbstract : Project managers typically work under constant and strict time, money and quality pressures which can, alongside other factors, lead to professional ethics within the project environment taking a backseat. This paper provides an overview on ethics; project management and ethics within project management with focus on the conventional vs. READ MORE
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5. Ethics in Artificial Intelligence : How Relativism is Still Relevant
University essay from Södertörns högskola/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskapAbstract : This essay tries to demarcate and analyse Artificial Intelligence ethics. Going away from the traditional distinction in normative, meta, and applied ethics, a different split is executed, inspired by the three most prominent schools of thought: deontology, consequentialism, and Aristotelian virtue ethics. READ MORE
