... of demandingness-based constraints on the content of moral theories (e.g. Kagan 1989 ; Murphy 2000 ), while others do not agree with any lowering in the normative status of demanding moral obligations (e.g. Stroud 1998 ; Portmore 2011 ). On the face of it, however, the two approaches are at least sufficiently...

... consists in assuring the promisee, but what the promisor gives to the promisee is not an assurance that they will do something, but that the normative situation is in a certain way. promising moral obligation normative power right normativity trust In Section II, I present Tim Scanlon's...

... to a promisee. It has sometimes been assumed that all reasons that are relational in this way are moral obligations. I argue, via a counter example, that there are non-obligatory relational reasons. If true, this has ramifications for relational theories of morality. Relational reasons Requests Moral...

..., Christians in such a situation (contrived though it is) would be morally obliged to sustain the unconscious violinist for nine months, despite the considerable inconvenience this would incur. In the context of Christian ethics, this conclusion radically undermines Thomson’s reasoning. Nonetheless, given...

... development, they might serve as an aid to help people fulfill valuable nonmoral goals in a way that is morally permissible. admirable immorality admirable imperfection bioethics human enhancement moral enhancement moral obligation moral...

...Daniel Immerman We have seen one sort of higher order ought. But there are others. A second sort of higher order ought concerns cases in which one is trying to decide whether to ensure that certain obligations are fulfilled. For example, suppose that Anita has the moral obligation to walk her dog...

...Brian McElwee Some demandingness objections appear to have strong appeal. Consider one form of Maximising Act Consequentialism: Max AC : We are morally obliged to bring about the best expected consequences, impartially considered, that we can. Any alternative action, or lifestyle, besides...

... considerations constantly open up very deep and important problems … hence he is a very profound and great philosopher, in spite of his sophistry. 1 Anscombe ethics Hume is and ought moral obligation pride virtue This would be damning with faint praise, were either the praise or the damning faint...

... and animal liberation theorists have concluded that nonhuman animals have moral standing and noninterference rights. Therefore, they say that humans are morally obligated to stop using animals for food, fiber, labor, and research. I disagree with that conclusion for at least 2 reasons. First, it has been...

...: autonomy, beneficence, cost containment", economic incentives, moral obligation, prospective payment. Critics of cost-containment efforts such as Diagnosis related Groups (DRGs) and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) often sound a common theme: If cost-containment efforts solely eliminated...

... its details through a comparative examination of the ethics of F. H. Bradley and T. H. Green. It is explained how they understand selfhood as something social, and even in a sense divine. The discussion concludes with consideration of self-realization as a mechanism to explain moral obligation...

... to make sense of our moral obligations towards human beings and the rest of the natural world. Next, it reviews some of the major positions on current issues that relate to moral status, outlines the book's chapters, and previews some of its conclusions. The chapter closes with two responses to what...

...This book explores a theoretical question that lies at the heart of practical ethics: what are the criteria for having moral status? In other words, what are the criteria for being an entity towards which people have moral obligations? Some philosophers maintain that there is one intrinsic property...

... Christie George Coleman Jules Hargreaves Heap and Varoufakis Midgeley Mary Pinker Steven Ridley Matt Varoufakis Yanis Honore Anthony Dagger Richard MacIntyre Alasdair fairness fair play moral obligation John Rawls John Finnis Qui sentit commodom sentire debet et onus...

... of one’s life and what person to be. This chapter explores these two ideas. Then it asks whether the sort of good that happiness is could also be the final end for deliberation, focusing on questions about other-regarding ends, self-sacrifice, and moral obligations. Even if a person whose final...

... a Platonist way. Thus the desiderata for an adequate theistic explanation of morality are met: facts about God enter immediately into the explanation of every moral fact. The chapter concludes by considering objections that moral concurrentism cannot handle the phenomenon of moral obligation...

... and prudential obligation also require that we have alternatives. Blameworthiness presupposes Wrongness principle Moral Obligation Praiseworthiness presupposes Obligation principle PO Incompatibilism Pereboom D Vranas P Amoral normative status Frankfurt examples Moral Responsibility Frankfurt H Kant’s...

... philosophical anarchism political anarchism duty legal obligation moral obligation political obligation particularity problem As a term of political discourse, ‘political obligation’ is apparently no older than T. H. Green’s use of the term in his lectures on the principles of political obligation...

... obligatory one; to accomplish this step in the overall argument, the concept of the “Natural Duty of Justice” is explained—i.e. the principle that each person has a limited moral obligation to help ensure that all persons have access to institutions, including legal institutions, that protect their basic...