Few works in the history of philosophy have provoked as much discussion and diverse opinions as Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (NE). Philosophers and scholars in different eras have examined a number of moral topics, such as the best life for a human being, the meaning of virtue, the ideal of natural law and the reasons for moral actions, as a result of their reading of Aristotle’s text. Aristo...

This article discusses institutional global ethics and its applications. Different approaches to applied ethics are discussed. The discussion focuses on whether a set of plausible ethical principles can be found that have global application to institutions of various forms in contexts connected with sustainability and human well-being generally. The article is divided into four major sections. ...

Zamyatin and Kantian Ethics: Freedom Happiness in We
 
 Resumen: Nosotros cumple un siglo y, a diferencia de otras distopías, no existen muchos estudios en español sobre ella. En este trabajo se analiza la perspectiva ética retratada novela y especial el conflicto entre libertad felicidad como una dicotomía cual privilegia libertad. Tras analizar las referencias Kant obra, concluye qu...

One must distinguish between the Enlightenment concept and humanistic of humanity. The former indicates a universal deontological ideal; latter selective set personal social virtues. Kant is champion but inherits various aspects tradition that began at end fourteenth century. This tradition, which largely coincides with so-called Hofliteratur , eclectically combines elements ancient Christian e...

I shall consider a sequence of episodes in Carnap’s thinking about mathematics beginning with his doctoral dissertation Der Raum (1922), which represents the most explicitly Kantian episode in his thought. I proceed to developments leading up through the Aufbau (1928), then turn to The Logical Syntax of Language (1934)—where the Principle of Tolerance is first officially formulated—and conclude...

This research studies Taha Abdel Rahman's perspective on ethics to face the moral challenge witnessed by our contemporary world and open horizon build a global ethical project, which represents practical part of his philosophy. By diving into modernist referring Kantian philosophy within scope abstract mind, therefore sought present an alternative, reverse philosophical theory, based religious ...

Abstract Ryan Tonkens (2009) has issued a seemingly impossible challenge, to articulate comprehensive ethical framework within which artificial moral agents (AMAs) satisfy Kantian inspired recipe—"rational" and "free"—while also satisfying perceived prerogatives of machine ethicists facilitate the creation AMAs that are perfectly not merely reliably ethical. This series papers meets this challe...

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This essay is about how four deeply important Kantian ideas can significantly illuminate some essentially intertwined issues in philosophical theology, philosophical logic, the metaphysics of agency, and above all, morality. These deeply important Kantian ideas are: (1) Kant’s argument for the impossibility of the Ontological Argument, (2) Kant’s first “postulate of pure practical reason,” immo...

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