What is "rightness?" - The Philosophy Forum
What is rightness? What is correctness? If we’re all shaped by our own experiences, assumptions, and biases, what meaning, then, does the word “absolute truth” hold? So when …
Believing in God does not resolve moral conflicts
2025年1月17日 · God is believed to be omniscient. This means that God knows all moral facts (by moral facts I mean a set of facts that rightness and wrongness of an action can be derived …
The nature of beauty. High and low art. - The Philosophy Forum
2020年8月12日 · This rightness may be either of a descriptive or a prescriptive nature: the feeling of apprehending some truth, or of apprehending some good. Scientific knowledge of many …
Are moral truths accessible? - The Philosophy Forum
2017年5月24日 · Rightness and wrongness have nothing to do with defining what is moral and what is immoral (i.e., accessing moral truths). I was using "rightness" and "wrongness" in …
A defense and extension of W. D. Ross' ethics of prima facie duties ...
It must be maintained that the rightness of an action is completely independent of the motivations from which it is done. Perennial moral dilemmas are a bad thing because they imply there has …
What are some utilitarianistic analysis with regard to morality of …
2018年6月23日 · Evaluative Consequentialism = moral rightness depends only on the value of the consequences (as opposed to non-evaluative features of the consequences). Hedonism = the …
How to teach deontology? - The Philosophy Forum
2015年11月25日 · Deontology is introduced second and, in contrast to consequentialism, as a system that focuses on the moral rightness of classes of actions themselves irrespective of …
Why ought one do that which is good? - The Philosophy Forum
2024年11月29日 · The connection between goodness and rightness is as follows: if X is good, then one ought to behave in such a manner so that X is the case. The problem, I think, in your …
In any objective morality existence is inherently good
I find that amusing. Biology leads to efficiency over rightness. The preservation of calories, giving only the right amount of effort. Favoring pleasantries over difficulties and hardships. Yelling at …
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (and similar theories)
2015年12月24日 · How accurate is the idea of a hierarchy of needs to the human condition? Is it fluff, baseless, and too folksy to be a sound theory, or is there a correlation with a hierarchy of …