Abstract One major insight derived from the moral twin earth debate is that evaluative and descriptive terms possess different levels of semantic stability, in meanings former but not latter tend to remain constant over significant counterfactual variance patterns application. At same time, it common metanormative divide into those are thin thick. In this paper, I combine debates about stabilit...

I vindicate the thrust of the particularist position in moral deliberation. to this purpose, I focus on some elements that seem to play a crucial role in first-person moral deliberation and argue that they cannot be incorporated into a more sophisticated system of moral principles. More specifically, I emphasize some peculiarities of moral perception in the light of which I defend the irreducib...

BACKGROUND The principles of biomedical ethics - autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice - are of paradigmatic importance for framing ethical problems in medicine and for teaching ethics to medical students and professionals. In order to underline this significance, Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress base the principles in the common morality, i.e. they claim that the principle...

although allameh majlisi has not intended to write a distinct ethical book on ethics or to present a coherent moral system in various volumes of behar al-anwar, but we can deduce a comprehensive ethical system through examination of the different discussions he has made about different  verses and traditions. this deduced ethical system not only emphasizes the role of reason in explaining the t...

By using the notion of a simplified (n, 1)-morass, we construct n-thin-tall, K-thin-thick and, in a forcing extension, K-very thin-thick superatomic Boolean algebras for every infinite regular cardinal n.