Classical presentations of the Buddhist path prescribe cultivation various good qualities that are necessary for spiritual progress, from mindfulness (sati) and loving-kindness (metta) to faith (saddhā) wisdom (paññā). Examining way in which such described classified early Buddhism—with special reference their treatment Visuddhimagga (Path Purification) by fifth-century thinker Buddhaghosa—the ...

Abstract Although in his earlier ethical writings Kant explains the concept of moral feeling, inherited from British sentimentalists, as a peculiar feeling respect for law that functions an incentive actions, Doctrine Virtue seems to add complexity issue. There, discusses two similar aesthetic predispositions, and respect, whose relationship is far clear. This article offers much needed elucida...

T AIM of this essay is to clarify the models of moral thinking and doing called teleology and deontology, to gain understanding of utilitarianism as a subcategory of the former, and to explore the relation both to utilitarianism and to teleology in general of certain Christian "consequentialist" modes of moral argument. This purpose arises out of a general and considerable unclarity in recent e...

Abstract In the past few years, ethical ramifications of AI technologies (in particular data science) have been at center intense debates. Considerable attention has devoted to understanding how a morally responsible practice science can be promoted and which values shape it. this context, ethics moral responsibility mainly conceptualized as compliance widely shared principles. However, several...

traditionally associated with Aristotle. It is written by an academic philosopher and a psychiatrist. ‘Virtue ethics’ holds that right conduct is founded on traits of character rather than adherence to rules, although these may also have their place. Such traits can be developed by training and practice (habituation). Having been eclipsed for some time by the rival approaches of consequentialis...

traditionally associated with Aristotle. It is written by an academic philosopher and a psychiatrist. ‘Virtue ethics’ holds that right conduct is founded on traits of character rather than adherence to rules, although these may also have their place. Such traits can be developed by training and practice (habituation). Having been eclipsed for some time by the rival approaches of consequentialis...