A Diachronic Consistency Argument for Minimizing One ’s Own Rights Violations
AbstractDeontologists are united in asserting that there are side-constraints on permissible action, prohibiting acts of murder, theft, infidelity, etc., even in cases where performing such acts would make things better overall from an impartial standpoint. These constraints are enshrined in the vocabulary of rights apply even when violating those constraints would lead to fewer constraint-violations overall: I am prohibited from killing an innocent even when doing so is the only way to prevent you from killing five. However, deontologists are divided over whether we have a duty to violate a smaller number of rights when t...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - November 17, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Transformative Contextual Realism
This article describes and illustrates the idea of a transformative contextual realism, and defends it against some potential objections. (Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice)
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - November 17, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Contributing to Historical-Structural Injustice via Morally Wrong Acts
AbstractAlasia Nuti ’s important recent book,Injustice and the Reproduction of History: Structural Inequalities, Gender and Redress (2019), makes many persuasive interventions. Nuti shows how structural injustice theory is enriched by being explicitly historical; in theorizing historical-structural injustice, she lays bare the mechanisms of how the injustices of history reproduce themselves. For Nuti, historical-structural patterns are not only shaped by habitual behaviors that are or appear to be morally permissible, but also by individual wrongdoing and wrongdoing by powerful group agents like states. In this article, ...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - November 16, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Suzy Killmister, Contours of Dignity
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - November 16, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Mathias Risse and Gabriel Wollner: On Trade Justice: A Philosophical Plea for a New Global Deal
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - November 13, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Correction to: Anger and Absurdity
A Correction to this paper has been published:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-021-10225-0 (Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice)
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - November 12, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Cultural Embeddedness and the Mestiza Ethics of Care: a Neo-Humean Response to the Problem of Moral Inclusion
AbstractIn this paper, we develop a neo-Humean response to the problem of moral inclusion by bringing Humean moral philosophy into deep and serious dialogue with Latin American philosophy. Our argument for achieving this two-fold aim unfolds as follows. In section one, we elucidate Mia Sosa-Provencio ’s conception of a mestiza ethics of care. We begin by highlighting its fundamental elements, especially its concern with what we refer to as thecultural embeddedness both of moral agents and of moral patients. We then explain how this aspect of the mestiza ethic poses a distinctive challenge for Humean moral philosophy. In ...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - November 10, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Editorial
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - November 8, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Correction to: Cis-Hetero-Misogyny Online
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - October 31, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Is Aristotelian Naturalism Safe From the Moral Outsider?
AbstractScott Woodcock has levied a number of objections against Aristotelian naturalism which claims that ethical norms are grounded by reason and biology. His most recent “membership objection” is a synthesis of earlier objections and consists in a trilemma. If Aristotelian naturalists answer the first horn of the trilemma by stipulating that determinations of species-membership are grounded non-empirically, and the second horn of the trilemma by stipulating rati onality is species-specific, then they are confronted by a moral outsider—someone who claims that they have non-empirically determined their species membe...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - October 30, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Book review Jeremy Snyder, Exploiting Hope. How the Promise of New Medical Interventions Sustains Usand Makes Us Vulnerable, 2021, Oxford University Press
This article discussed Jeremy Snyder s book Exploiting Hope. How the Promise of New Medical Interventions Sustains Usand Makes Us Vulnerable, 2021, Oxford University Press. (Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice)
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - October 28, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Poverty, Exploitation, Mere Things and Mere Means
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I argue that, alongside the already well-established prohibition against treating persons as mere means, Kant ’s Formula of Humanity requires a prohibition against treating persons as mere things. The former captures ethical violations due to someone’s (perceived) instrumental value, e.g. exploitation, the latter captures cases in which I mistreat others because they have no instrumental value to me. Th ese are cases in which I am indifferent and complacent towards persons in need; forms of mistreatment frequently suffered by the world’s poorest. I explain why we need the category of treating others as me...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - October 28, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Kinetic Values, Mobility (in)equalities, and Ageing in Smart Urban Environments
AbstractThe idea of the right to mobility has been fundamental to modern Western citizenship and is expressed in many legal and government documents. Although there is widespread acceptance regarding the importance of mobility in older adults, there have been few attempts to develop ethical and theoretical tools to portray mobility (in)equalities in old age. This paper develops a novel conceptualisation of kinetic values focusing on older adults whose ability to move has been restricted for internal and external reasons. Informed by the phenomenological theory of kinaesthesia, I suggest that kinetic values are related to f...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - October 28, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Feeling as Consciousness of Value
AbstractA vast range of our everyday experiences seem to involve an immediate consciousness of value. We hear the rudeness of someone making offensive comments. In seeing someone risking her life to save another, we recognize her bravery. When we witness a person shouting at an innocent child, we feel the unfairness of this action. If, in learning of a close friend ’s success, envy arises in us, we experience our own emotional response as wrong. How are these values apprehended? The three most common answers provided by contemporary philosophy explain the consciousness of value in terms of judgment, emotion, or perceptio...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - October 28, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Realism and Political Normativity
AbstractA prevailing understanding of realism, chiefly among its critics, casts realists as those who seek a ‘distinctively political normativity’, where this is interpreted as meaning nonmoral in kind. Moralists, on this account, are those who reject this and believe that political normativity remains moral. Critics have then focused much of their attention on demonstrating that the search for a nonmo ral political normativity is doomed to fail which, if right, would then seem to fatally undermine the realist endeavour. This paper makes the case that casting the difference between realism and moralism in these terms i...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - October 28, 2021 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
