Der Artikel erörtert die Besonderheiten und Probleme des moralischen Pluralismus, eines Modells der Pflichttheorie in normativen Ethik, nach dem (1) es viele moralische Grundprinzipien gibt; (2) diese unterschiedlichen Grundsätze widersprüchlich sein können; (3) keine strenge Hierarchie Bedeutung gibt, auf deren Grundlage Konflikte zwischen ihnen gelöst werden können. Autor zeigt, dass eine sol...

kant believes that the concepts of a just and compassionate god and the life beyond death spring from our rational need to unite happiness with virtue. but since kant had banished happiness from any place in moral reasoning, his philosophy of religion have been deemed as not merely discontinuous with his ethics but radically opposed to it. this article tries to argue against this apparent incon...

In contemporary medical ethics health is rarely acknowledged to be an ethical obligation. This oversight is due to the preoccupation of most bioethicists with a rationalist, contract model for ethics in which moral obligation is limited to truth-telling and promise-keeping. Such an ethics is poorly suited to medicine because it fails to appreciate that medicine's basis as a moral enterprise is ...

we aimed to verify the issue of the ethics audit and its use in the system of accreditation of hospitals. it presents the results of a survey conducted among hospital managers from romania.our article highlights the results of the second part of a research carried out in 2012 on the pertinence and the structure of the ethics audit integrated within the accreditation process of hospitals, accord...

This article examines the current status and limitations of medical ethics courses in 40 schools South Korea. Weaknesses these curricula are identified through an analysis students’ opinions. It is found that education Korea focused primarily on normative case-based learning while character largely overlooked. However, if goal to nurture ethical virtues professionalism, it essential students al...

This paper examines a dilemma in reproductive and population ethics that can illuminate broader questions axiology normative ethics. emerges because most people have conflicting intuitions concerning whether the interests of non-existent beings outweigh existing when those merely potential are expected to overall net-good or net-bad lives. The claims standard approach this issue, terms exemplif...

The ethics of fundraising has received scant attention in the academic literature, while there is not a huge amount grey and practitioner literature either. There little that explicitly describes normative theories fundraising—broad concepts how ought to be practised, from which recommendions for applied ethical practice can drawn. This first review on ethics, articulating, synthesing naming (o...