Lon Fuller, in his response to H.L.A. Hart’s 1958 Holmes Lecture and elsewhere, argued that principles of legality—formal principles requiring, for example, that laws be clear, general, and prospective—constitute the “internal morality of law.” This Article contends that Hart never offered a clear response. Fuller’s claim supposes that observance of the principles of legality is both fundamenta...

Th e impact of biotechnology on all living things is an interdisciplinary inquiry into some of humanity’s most fundamental questions: Who are we? How do we live together? How do we relate to the biosphere, to the rest of the living world? Are the answers given to these questions shaped by various contexts: social, cultural, economic, so on? Are there universal answers to these questions? Choosi...

The need for explicit theoretical reflection on cross-cultural bioethics continues to grow as the spread of communication technologies and increased human migration has made interactions between medical professionals and patients from different cultural backgrounds much more common. I claim that this need presents us with the following dilemma. On the one hand, we do not want to operate accordi...

We introduce a new computational model of moral decision making, drawing on a recent theory of commonsense moral learning via social dynamics. Our model describes moral dilemmas as utility function that computes trade-offs in values over abstract moral dimensions, which provide interpretable parameter values when implemented in machineled ethical decision-making. Moreover, characterizing the so...

The novel Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini shows how the main character Amir reflects a sense of self through views other characters. At some point in story, Amir’s self-conceptualization changes radically. Thus, paper wants to make psychological interpretation emotional traumas affect self-perception, moral-development, and planned behavior scrutinizing plot, conflicts, view Amir. Additionally, ...

Modeling plays a substantial role in decision-making and therefore many models raise moral issues. Modelers, especially in operations research, become increasingly aware that this poses new problems to modeling. This paper addresses two questions: (1) How do moral issues in modeling arise? (2) How can these moral issues be resolved? In this article I trace the origins of moral issues in modelin...

arguments for the recognition of cultural diversity have led to a fundamental question in political theory: on what basis the process of political decision making should be formed to accommodate cultural diversity as a permanent feature of contemporary societies? the aim of this paper is to examine whether 'dialogue' can be employed as a means in such a process. the first section of this paper...

December 9, 2015 It is often assumed that people are moral absolutists. Although Paul Boghossian supports this claim by seemingly defeating every reasonable type of relativism, Sarkissian et al. provide reason to think that people are generally moral relativists. I will argue that people really do believe in moral relativism, but that we think that all humans should agree to one universal moral...

A number of specific and commonly recognized moral principles have been articulated for application in the realm of health care ethics. Some ethicists, notably Beauchamp and Childress (2004), have used such principles as a primary framework for ethical analysis and dialogue. In this approach, referred to as principlism, each principle represents a serious, though not absolute, moral duty that m...

Abstract Artificially intelligent systems will be used to make increasingly important decisions about us. Many of these have made without universal agreement the relevant moral facts. For other kinds disagreement, it is at least usually obvious what kind solution called for. What makes disagreement especially challenging that there are three different ways handling it. Moral solutions apply a t...