Ahlak nedir? Sokrates buna kendine hâkim olma ve kendini yönetme sanatı diyordu. Öğrettiği tek temel erdem egemenlikti (éyKpâTela): kendi üzerinde egemenlik. Demokrasi de halkın yönetmesi anlamına gelir; halk tarafından yönetilmesi. Sonuç olarak, demokrasi ahlaki düşüncenin siyasete açık bir şekilde uygulanması değil midir? Demokratik yönetim ahlaka dayalı aynı şey gibi görünmektedir. Tarihsel ...

In “Modern Moral Philosophy,” Anscombe argued that the moral vocabulary does not correspond to any concept in Aristotelian ethics, it derives from a confused response ethics of divine command, and is literally meaningless. This essay contends was wrong. Morality corresponds Aristotle’s general sense “justice,” which complete virtue relation others. But Anscombe’s question remains: what for an a...

the questionnaire of morality in biotechnological research that has been drafted by this writer includes four sections dealing with various aspects of a research in this field. the first section contains general questions such as the aim and the anticipated achievement(s) of the research. the second section includes question concerning the subject. regarding the human being as the subject of re...

The idea that empathy provides an important developmental precursor to moral decision making possesses significant conceptual appeal. However, the idea of a necessary, diachronic relation between empathy and morality has been rejected recently (by Prinz 2011, amongst others). This paper reassesses the strength of the claim that empathy is developmentally necessary for (at least some forms of) m...

The theme of this special issue is “Is Morality Universal, and Should the Law Care?” For me, this question provokes the further question of what morality and the law are. That is what most of this essay is about. The last two sections address the initial question, primarily dealing with laying out its multiple ambiguity. Few of its readings have easy answers; the best I can do in the present di...

This paper uses (tele)presence concepts to explore the practical and philosophical implications of the simulation argument: the notion that individuals may be trapped within manufactured realities. After describing a series of hypothetical simulation scenarios, key distinguishing dimensions of the scenarios are considered and implications for epistemology, religion and morality, mortality, and ...

Many believe that objective morality requires a theistic foundation. I maintain that there are sui generis objective ethical facts that do not reduce to natural or supernatural facts. On my view, objective morality does not require an external foundation of any kind. After explaining my view, I defend it against a variety of objections posed by William Wainwright, William Lane Craig, and J. P. ...