Essays about: "Virtue Ethics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 39 essays containing the words Virtue Ethics.

1. 1. Aristotle and Romantic Love : A Study of Romantic Love and If It Can Be Part of Aristotle's Eudaimonia

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

   Author : Anna-Maria Inzsöl; [2023]
   Keywords : Aristotle; Love; Eudaimonia; Virtue; Virtue Ethics;

   Abstract : This essay will research aspects of romantic love, as well as aspects of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. The purpose of the essay is to discuss if romantic love can be part of virtue ethics and eudaimonia. The philosopher Raja Halwani presents two concepts of romantic love that are relevant to the discussion. READ MORE

3. 2. Kant Stop the Kidfluencers : Moral Considerations in Using Children as Social Media Influencers

   University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för mänskliga rättigheter och demokrati

   Author : Anna Lenander; [2023]
   Keywords : Kidfluencing; child influencers; social media; ethics; Kantian ethics; virtue ethics; the commodification of childhood; UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; consent; advertising; regulations; limitations; children s rights; argumentative;

   Abstract : The practice of "kidfluencing," or using children as social media influencers to promote commercial products and services, raises ethical concerns about the commodification of childhood, them being viewed as products, and their rights falling between the gaps. This essay critically examines the moral dilemmas and challenges in regulating kidfluencing practices from a Kantian and virtue ethics perspective, analyzing the implications of commodifying childhood and the potential harm it can cause. READ MORE

4. 3. The Virtues of a Hero : Virtue Ethics and the Divine in Star Wars and Warhammer 40,000

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : David Seger; [2023]
   Keywords : Star War; Warhammer 40; 000; virtue ethics; the divine; Aristotelian virtue ethics; Nietzschean virtue ethics; minimal theism; classical theism; panentheism; pantheism;

   Abstract : 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

5. 4. The Moral Constraint on Political Principles in Bernard Williams’s Political Realism

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Hugo Sundman; [2023]
   Keywords : political realism; Bernard Williams; virtue ethics; Rosalind Hursthouse;

   Abstract : 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

6. 5. 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