Morality of Lobbying for Tax Benefits: A Kantian Perspective

Evolution and Kantian morality

Morality from a Cultural Psychology Perspective 25 MORALITY FROM A CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY PERSPECTIVE

One of the many possibilities of understanding culture is proposed by Clifford Geertz who understood culture as “a system of control mechanisms— plans, recipes, rules, instructions ... that guide behavior”(Geertz, 1973). This opinion is based on the assumption that “man is exactly the animal that is the most dependent upon such control mechanisms that exist outside the skin” (p. 44). But these ...

Do Ethics Matter? Tax Compliance and Morality

In this paper we argue that puzzle of tax compliance can be explained, at least in part, by recognizing the typically neglected role of ethics in individual behavior; that is, individuals do not always behave as the selfish, rational, self-interested individuals portrayed in the standard neoclassical paradigm, but rather are often motivated by many other factors that have as their main foundati...

On the Possibility of Measuring Freedom: A Kantian Perspective

More than three decades after Sen‟s first formulation of the so-called “capability approach”, practitioners have yet to measure a capability set. This raises fundamental questions about the empirical viability of Sen‟s approach. In this paper, we argue that Kantian philosophy may offer valuable insights into how to deal with this problem, as the methodological difficulty which has hampered the ...

An Evolutionary Perspective on Morality

Moralbehaviorandconcern forothersare sometimesargued tosethumansapart fromother species. However, there is some evidence that humans are not the only animal species to possess these characteristics.Work frombehavioral biology andneurosciencehas indicated that some of these traits are present in other species, including other primates. Studying these behaviors in other species can inform us abou...