Essays about: "our moral duties"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words our moral duties.

  1. 1. 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

  3. 2. Avliva eller låta leva? : en etisk diskussion om att väga sällskapsdjurs livskvalité och lidande

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health

    Author : Malin Wolters; [2022]
    Keywords : lidande; livskvalité; avlivning; etik; veterinär; djurägare;

    Abstract : Denna studie har tre syften. Det första är att undersöka hur djurägare och veterinärer ser på lidande, livskvalité och beslut om avlivning av sällskapsdjur. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Conational Partiality Thesis: A Critique : A Critique of the Intrinsic Argument for Associative Duties Between Conationals and Commonsense Nationalism

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

    Author : Jesper Söderstedt; [2019]
    Keywords : Conational Partiality; Partiality; Nationalism; Compatriot partiality; Associative duties;

    Abstract : This paper aims to provide a critique of commonsense nationalism by means of critiquing the intrinsic argument for the conational partiality thesis. I.e. the thesis that we ought to, in our moral deliberation, prioritize our conationals. READ MORE

  5. 4. Computers as tools for ethical decision making

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informationsteknologi

    Author : Christian Rick; [2015]
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    Abstract : ew technology gives rise to new moral problems and dilemmas. We can therefore no longer be sure that our previously collected moral knowledge for dealing with everyday life situations applies to the new situations that arise as a consequence of modern technology. READ MORE

  6. 5. Thomas Pogge's Theory of a Minimally Just Global Institutional Order

    University essay from Institutionen för kommunikation och information

    Author : Astrid Paulsson; [2011]
    Keywords : Negative duties; Global Justice; Global Poverty; Obligation; Applied Philosophy; Reform;

    Abstract : The immense inequalities between the world’s poor and the world’s rich have compelledphilosopher Thomas Pogge to develop a moral framework based on the Universal Declarationof Human Rights that challenges our most commonsense political moral views. Poggedisputes minimally and universally that we all have a negative duty not to harm so long as theharm is foreseeable and avoidable, rather than a positive duty to do well. READ MORE