This paper constructs and compares two practical approaches toward being ethical in developing information systems. Firstly, it looks into the prevailing practice of relying on rational decision-making procedures to address ethical challenges, then an alternative view on being ethical is scrutinised with the focus on moral virtues and maturity in development of moral judgement. Through a study ...

The classical Aristotelean distinction between moral and intellectual virtues has come to us as one of the first explicit conceptualizations a realm knowledge action. This paper intends analyze meaning that according an alternative hypothesis, namely, correspond profound understanding relation philosophical political life. analysis will be guided by relatively unclear phrónesis sophía, subtle b...

This is a progress report of a project to identify and interview moral exemplars in computing. Initial analyses of the interviews suggests that there are at least two types of moral exemplars, craftspersons (who use the values extant in computing to produce products that help clients) and reformers (who try to change the culture of computing based on external values). We explore the differences...

This paper constructs and compares two practical approaches toward being ethical in developing information systems. Firstly, it looks into the prevailing practice of relying on rational decision-making procedures to address ethical challenges, then an alternative view on being ethical is scrutinised with the focus on moral virtues and maturity in development of moral judgement. Through a study ...

In this paper, I elucidate Hume’s account of doxastic virtues and offer three reasons that contemporary epistemologists ought to consider it as an alternative to one of the broadly Aristotelian models currently offered. Specifically, I suggest that Hume’s account of doxastic virtues obviates (1) the much-debated question about whether such virtues are intellectual, “moral,” or some combination ...

al-ghazali was one of the islamic scholars who was concerned to revival of religious teachings. in ihya’ ‘ulum al-din, he tried to provide a pattern in this regard for the believers of his time. in this article, authors attempt to discuss effects of religiosity with emphasis on psychological views of al-ghazali. for this purpose, al-ghazali’s ideas which has been expressed in four parts of ihya...

INTRODUCTION To follow the progress of technology and increasing domain of nurses' duties, ethical challenges can be observed more than ever. Therefore, the growing and dynamic system of nursing requires nurses with professional and ethical competence who can provide optimal care. The aim of the present study was to define and explain dimensions of moral competency among the clinical nurses of ...

Perhaps the most enduring legacy of Aristotle’s ethics is his theory of moral habits, largely found in the opening chapters of Book II of Nicomachean Ethics. By elucidating not only the requirements of virtue but also the methods by which we develop virtue, Aristotle’s ethics offers us a realistic hope of realizing his moral ideal. However, as we shall see, Aristotle presents only a brief sketc...

Aristotle considered moral beauty to be the telos of the human virtues (Sachs, 2002). Displays of moral beauty have been shown to elicit the moral emotion of elevation and cause a desire to become a better person and to engage in prosocial behavior. Study 1 (N = 5,380) shows engagement with moral beauty is related to several psychological constructs relevant to moral education, and structural m...