Essays about: "Moral Values of Life"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 28 essays containing the words Moral Values of Life.
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21. Why Human Virtues Obtain in the Natural World
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskapAbstract : This essay aims to connect naturalism and virtue-ethics to a form of realism about values. The thesis advanced in the essay relies heavily on the Wittgensteinian concepts language-game and weltanschauung as explanatory tools for how values can be both real and unreal, both objective and subjective, both at the same time but not from the same perspective. READ MORE
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22. Autonomy, asceticism, agonism – Max Weber’s scientific objectivity as idea, practice and politics
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Sociologiska institutionenAbstract : The primary function of objectivity-as-value-freedom is to safeguard the formal vision of the good life: Autonomously choosing one’s own ultimate values, calling, fate. The standards of objectivity and good science that Weber proposes are infused with existential, moral and political concerns and depend partly on their context of origin. READ MORE
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23. Reconciling Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Global Justice.
University essay from Centrum för tillämpad etikAbstract : In exploring how to decisively address global poverty the question of what should be the content of nations’ global justice duties has been debatable. Nationalism has usually been regarded as incompatible with cosmopolitanism. READ MORE
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24. Circuits of Civilization: Progressive Democratic Character Education in the Process of Globalization
University essay from Centrum för tillämpad etikAbstract : This thesis interprets John Dewey’s theory of the moral life in the global context in order to shed a light on major ethical challenges of the process of globalization. Dewey’s perspective provides an explanation of (1) formation of the individual commitments to particular sets of values,(2) justification of the responsibilities to the distanced peoples as opposed to the responsibilities to the nearest and dearest peoples and (3)the meaning of democratic social arrangements on the global scale. READ MORE
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25. Professional Medical Ethicist: A Weed or Desired Member in Medical Ethics Debates?
University essay from Centrum för tillämpad etikAbstract : We now live in an era of experts on virtually everything, among which we have professional medical ethicists, who gained prominence in the late 60s due to dramatic advances in medical technology. Before then, medical ethics issues were not thought as separable from the warp and woof of the everyday life. READ MORE
