EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 13 - Trang 121-123 - 2010
Albert W. Musschenga, Robert Heeger
Why Be Immoral?Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 13 - Trang 191-205 - 2009
Christopher Freiman
Developing themes in the work of Thomas Hill, I argue that servility is an underappreciated but pervasive reason for moral transgression. Recognizing servility as a basic cause of immorality obliges us to reconsider questions about the rationality of morality. Traditional answers to the problem of the immoralist, which tend to be stated in terms of enlightened self-interest, fail to properly engag...... hiện toàn bộ
Rational Choice VirtuesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 13 - Trang 541-559 - 2010
Bruno Verbeek
In this essay, I review some results that suggest that rational choice theory has interesting things to say about the virtues. In particular, I argue that rational choice theory can show, first, the role of certain virtues in a game-theoretic analysis of norms. Secondly, that it is useful in the characterization of these virtues. Finally, I discuss how rational choice theory can be brought to bear...... hiện toàn bộ
Does Moral Virtue Require Knowledge? A Response to Julia DriverSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 15 - Trang 533-546 - 2011
Michael Jeffrey Winter
A long-standing tenet of virtue theory is that moral virtue and knowledge are connected in some important way. Julia Driver attacks the traditional assumption that virtue requires knowledge. I argue that the examples of virtues of ignorance Driver offers are not compelling and that the idea that knowledge is required for virtue has been taken to be foundational for virtue theory for good reason. I...... hiện toàn bộ
But for the Grace of God: Abortion and Cognitive Disability, Luck and Moral StatusSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - - 2016
Jonathan Surovell
Many theories of moral status that are intended to ground pro-choice views on abortion tie full moral status to advanced cognitive capabilities. Extant accounts of this kind are inconsistent with the intuition that the profoundly cognitively disabled have full moral status. This paper improves upon these extant accounts by combining an anti-luck condition with Steinbock’s stratification of moral s...... hiện toàn bộ