Kant famously insisted that “the idea of the will of every rational being as a universally legislative will” is the supreme principle of morality. Recent interpreters have taken this emphasis on the self-legislation of the moral law as evidence that Kant endorsed a distinctively constructivist conception of morality according to which the moral law is a positive law, created by us. But a closer...

mac intyre believes that the history of the western culture and thought is analyzable in two different lines, so that the modern intellect is a free and liberated and thus wandering intellect that has not found its way to a strengthened and dignified thinking, and the pre-modern intellect is a theological one intertwined with excellence and committed to tradition. the pre-modern rational though...

Kalithogai, is one among the Ettuthogai book. This book deals with home life, love, culture, customs and traditions. It divided into five parts. One should judge a person based on his/her moral values. The best virtue to protect values has attained return it rightful at right time. There are many in Maruthakali. people of Marutham land rich for six months due yield paddy, sugarcane. filled plen...

Kenneth Boulding’s AEA presidential address argued that economics is a moral science. His view derived from his general systems theory thinking, his three systems view of human society, and his early contributions to evolutionary economics. Boulding’s argument that economics could not be value-free should be distinguished from other well-known views of economics as a moral science, such as Gunn...

the purpose of the present paper is to investigate semantic deviation of the holy quran in amal donqol's poetry. deviation is one of the techniques of defamiliarization, and was first introduced by the russian formalists in 1917. constructivist attitude toward literary texts and emphasis on the aesthetic aspects of the literary works led formalists to consider literary language as the main...

David Hume and Adam Smith are usually, and understandably, seen as developing very similar sentimentalist accounts of moral thought and practice. Hume’s views are better known, not least because Smith’s work on moral sentiments fell in the shadow of his tremendously influential Wealth of Nations. This shadowing is unfortunate, both because Smith’s work on moral sentiments is deeply insightful a...

We now begin the final part of this treatise on the phenomenon of mind, namely the exposition of the power of pure Reason. In a number of ways this is the most challenging part of our theory owing to the peculiar aloofness of Reason from all sensational attributes of the Self in Reason’s role as the supreme regulator and executive of all non-autonomic actions of the Organized Being. All our con...

awrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development has been enormously influential in psychology. As Dr. Julie Dunlap states, his work has been concerned exclusively with the development of our moral attitudes toward other humans. Her research is a welcome attempt to use Kohlberg's theory to probe for the development of moral concern about nonhuman animals and nature in general. We should be aware,...