rational dialogues & ethical universalism

ethical universalism and communal particularistic

during three last decades some modem ethical philosophers, called ,communitarians, reviving aristotelian virtualistic ethics, have criticized intensively ethical and political views of utilitarian and new kantian liberalism. this ,doctrine emphasizing on political ethical , and psychological importance of correlations to societies believes that ethical arguments and judgments must derive from c...

Rational Interaction in Dialogues: Ingredients for Success)

In this paper, we discuss the question of closure conditions for dialogues in three different frameworks: W. C. Mann’s DMT framework, Vanderveken’s illocutionary theory of discourse and Asher and Lascarides SDRT approach. We are interested in formal frameworks that aim to describe the logical structure of conversations between diversely bounded agents who are to some extent rational, intelligen...

The Ethical Dangers of Rational Decision Making 1 The Ethical Dangers of Rational Decision Making

Perdurantism, Universalism, and Quantifiers

I argue that the conjunction of perdurantism (the view that objects are temporally extended) and universalism (the thesis that any old class of things has a mereological fusion) gives rise to undesired complications when combined with certain plausible assumptions concerning the semantics of tensed statements.

NICHOLAS KAHN - FOGEL Western Universalism and African

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GLOBAL RESEARCH ETHICS Between universalism and relativism: a conceptual exploration of problems in formulating and applying international biomedical ethical guidelines

In this paper, the author attempts to explore some of the problems connected with the formulation and application of international biomedical ethical guidelines, with particular reference to Africa. Recent attempts at revising and updating some international medical ethical guidelines have been bedevilled by intractable controversies and wrangling regarding both the content and formulation. Fro...