William Osler (1849–1919) was arguably the world’s most famous physician at the turn of the 20th century. Although his writings are diverse and prolific, there is remarkably little on the subject of medical ethics.1,2 This absence is not, I believe, a result of Osler’s lack of interest in matters medico-ethical, even at a time when such issues were perhaps not as complex as they are today. The ...

Promoting ethical, responsible, and caring young people is a perennial aim of education. Efforts have been made to find ways of teaching other than traditional ones like games and role play. Narrative-based computer games are engaging learning platforms that allow collaboration of humans and computers in the creation of innovative experiences. In this paper, the authors examine the design of an...

Abstract We argue that the growing prevalence of statistical machine learning in everyday decision making – from creditworthiness to police force allocation effectively replaces many our humdrum practical judgments and this will eventually undermine capacit y for such judgments. lean on Aristotle’s famous account how phronesis moral virtues develop make case. If Aristotle is right habitual exer...

Abstract. The ethical challenges facing contemporary science range from scientific misconduct to the rightful treatment of people, animals and environment. In this work, we explore role virtue ethics, which concern character a person, in science. Through interviews with 13 scientists, eight whom are geoscientists, identify six virtues (honesty, humility, philia, innocence, generosity reticence)...

Abstract The epistemic relevance of forgiveness has been neglected by both the discussion in moral psychology and social epistemology generally. Moral fails to account for wrongs way that general have implications. Social epistemology, its part, neglects trust is not only conferred but repaired. In this essay, I show repair through necessary economy knowledge fallible persons like us. Despite f...

Background: The science of ethics is one of the most complete basic sciences that human beings urgently need, because the subject of knowledge of ethics is the human soul and its inner construction. The moral thinking of the thinkers of the Frankfurt School, as one of the ideas of the twentieth century, is based on the ethics of virtue; because the moral act is known as the act which is the res...

Socrates (in the Meno) denied that virtues like courage could be taught, whereas Protagoras defended this claim. Compassion is discussed below in this context; it is distinguished from related, but different, moral qualities, and the role of imagination is emphasised. 'Sympathy's and role-modelling views of compassion's acquisition are criticised. Compassion can indeed be taught, but neither by...

How can Confucian philosophy provide a useful path toward understanding the basic processes of human moral psychology? This is the question that SEOK Bongrae’s new book Embodied Moral Psychology and Confucian Philosophy strives to answer. To the uninitiated, Confucian philosophy will be an unlikely resource, even an anachronism with respect to current issues in philosophy, especially with regar...