Environmental ethics emerged from the thickets of applied philosophy in the early 1970s as a rebuke to anthropocentrism, the humancentered outlook embedded within the Western ethical system. The anthropocentric worldview was singled out by the fi rst generation of environmental phi loso phers for its failure to extend the boundaries of moral considerability— and the attribution of intrinsic val...

Consider a game whose strategies are “contributions”. A strategy profile is a Kantian equilibrium if no player would like all players to alter their contributions by the same multiplicative factor. Kantian equilibria are Pareto efficient. We characterize the allocation rules on several domains of environments that can be implemented as Kantian equilibria. The concept unifies the proportional so...

Lying is a common phenomenon amongst human beings. It seems to play a role in making social interactions run more smoothly. Too much honesty can be regarded as impolite or downright rude. Remarkably, lying is not a common phenomenon amongst normally intelligent human beings who are on the autism spectrum. They appear to be 'attractively morally innocent' and seem to have an above average moral ...

The principal claims of Max Weber and Sergey (Sergius) Hessen are an extension Kant’s anti-naturalistic tendency in ethics, which individual acquires his own freedom by actualising the autonomy will as obedience to a duty. moral justification leads explanation development mankind process interaction between culture many individuals. analyses principles sociability showed crucial role neo-Kantia...

In this article I look at some the issues, problems and (it seems to me) self-imposed dilemmas that emerge from Harry Frankfurt’s well-known essay ‘Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person’. That essay has exerted a widespread influence on subsequent thinking in ethics and philosophy of mind, especially through its central idea of ‘second-order’ desires and volitions. Frankfurt’s approac...

This study examines the moral and ethical aspects of creating savior siblings using Kant’s moral-philosophical theory and Beauchamp and Childress’s (B&C) principles of medical ethics. In this study, the researchers argue that three of the four clusters of the principles of B&C framework are derived from common morality and Kant’s ethics. Besides, the second part of this article is designed as a...

Parfit argues that a form of rule consequentialism can be derived from the most plausible formulation of the fundamental principle of Kantian ethics. And so he concludes that Kantians should be consequentialists. I argue that we have good reason to reject two of the auxiliary premises that figure in Parfit’s derivation of rule consequentialism from Kantianism. In chapter 16 of On What Matters,...

In the Anthropocene, humanity faces a pressing question: ‘what should we do?’ Here are interested in underlying sense and reference of normative ‘should’ as it applies to ethics with respect different actors. To excavate ‘should’, unearth foundations three conventional groupings ethical systems: Mill’s utilitarianism, Kantian deontological Aristotelian virtue ethics. Each provides basis for say...