The classical ways to make philosophy are used to discuss ethical problems applied according to some fundamental ethical principles whose paradigm still remains the kantian categorical imperative. Nowadays, such approach is contested because the problem of "conditio humana" have to take into account scientifically and technical changes. The consequence is that ethics cannot be separated from th...

Abstract This paper will show that if we take conventional ethics seriously, then there is no moral justification for business profits. To this, explore three ethical theories, namely Christian ethics, Kantian and Utilitarian ethics. Since they essentially reject self-interest , also the essence of business: profit motive. illustrate relationship, concretize how anti-egoist perspective expresse...

Aristotle and Plato were the chief architects of virtue ethics, but their own formulation ethics was mostly subdued with appearance consequentialism as well Kantian deontology. However, modem thinkers have attempted to revive in its new form this regard name which is popularly known G.E.M. Anscombe. In fact Anscombe clearly indicates what sense can be revived wrong traditional expounded by Plat...

Abstract This chapter makes creative use of Kantianism for Animals to argue against environmental destruction. Previous contributions on Kantian ethics have focused defending Kant’s own conception indirect duties regarding nature, hoping show that view is not as exploitative it sounds. By contrast, this argues ethic indeed exploitative, but objectionably so, long animals are included in moral c...

The book Kant and Applied Ethics: The Uses and Limits of Kant’s Practical Philosophy of Matthew C. Altman is a true refreshment in the world of Kantian scholarship. It is a deep exegetical achievement in reading of Kant’s thought and its actualisation for modern (bio)ethical problems at the same time. As it is noted in the title, the author tries to present and explain the modalities of connect...

Several leadership and ethics scholars suggest that the transformational leadership process is predicated on a divergent set of ethical values compared to transactional leadership. Theoretical accounts declare that deontological ethics should be associated with transformational leadership while transactional leadership is likely related to teleological ethics. However, very little empirical res...

Do human beings act morally because they obey socially defined rules and norms as the result of a routine of inculcated behaviors, or an embodied fear of sanction, or perhaps both? Conversely, do they act morally because they decide to do so as a consequence of a rational evaluation, or transformative endeavor, or inseparably both? In other words, do they follow a Kantian ethics of duty or an A...

Over the past two decades it has become standard to construe Kant’s ethics as a paradigm of constructivism, standing in stark opposition to realism. Under such an interpretation, Kant’s ethics is based on constructive procedures that yield normative practical principles for us, rather than on facts about goodness that might ground such principles. While there is, no doubt, textual support for t...