Background: Morality is a human experience that every person needs in his normal life to have moral virtue that he relies on. Ethics is a core tool or life skill that is an integral dimension of well-being. Moral well-being can lead to the reduction of conflicts and emotional divorce. Therefore, the present research was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between moral well...

In this paper I explore some of the moral issues that could emerge from the creation of human-nonhuman chimeras (HNH-chimeras) capable of human gamete production and human pregnancy. First I explore whether there is a cogent argument against the creation of HNH-chimeras that could produce human gametes. I conclude that so far there is none, and that in fact there is at least one good moral reas...

In this article we discuss generosity, a virtue that has received little attention in relation to nursing practice. We make a distinction between material generosity and generosity of spirit. The moral imagination is central to our analysis of generosity of spirit. We discuss data taken from a team meeting and identify the components of generosity, for example, the role of the moral imagination...

In Kant’s writings, we can discover four key moments in the realization of moral freedom: i) The original possibility being free, ii) act described by Kant as radical evil, iii) opposite act, that is, an inner conversion to good, and, finally, iv) long process self-development virtue extending immortality. There are further issues such double concept and practical temporality. Moral freedom is ...

Abstract Out of the three major approaches to ethics, virtue ethics is uniquely well suited as a moral guide in digital age, given pace sociotechnical change and complexity society. Virtue focuses on traits, situations actions agents, rather than rules (as deontology) or outcomes (consequentialism). Even interest has grown within information behavior (IB), there been little engagement with ethi...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a four component model of ethical behavior (PRIMES) that integrates literature in moral psychology, computing ethics, and virtue ethics as informed by research on moral exemplars in computing. This is part 1 of a two-part contribution. Design/methodology/approach – This psychologically based and philosophically informed model argues that moral a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a four component model of ethical behavior that integrates literature in moral psychology, computing ethics, and virtue ethics as informed by research on moral exemplars in computing. This is part 2 of a two part contribution, part 1 having appeared in Vol. 6 No. 3. Design/methodology/approach – This psychologically based and philosophically inf...

Research in psychology and cognitive science has consistently demonstrated the importance of emotion in a wide range of everyday judgments, including moral judgment. Most current accounts of moral judgment hold that emotion plays an important role, but the nature and extent of this role are still debated. We outline three increasingly strong claims about the role of emotion in moral judgment an...

Few works in the history of philosophy have provoked as much discussion and diverse opinions as Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (NE). Philosophers and scholars in different eras have examined a number of moral topics, such as the best life for a human being, the meaning of virtue, the ideal of natural law and the reasons for moral actions, as a result of their reading of Aristotle’s text. Aristo...