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For citizens and residents, there can be a moral obligation to follow laws that are unenforced or under enforced. Just because you could get away with breaking the law doesn’t mean you’re ...
Moral Responsibility. Making judgments about whether a person is morally responsible for their behavior, and holding others and ourselves responsible for actions and the consequences of actions, is a fundamental and familiar part of our moral practices and our interpersonal relationships.
After giving a lucid exposition of the Kantian account of moral obligations, Stern turns to two other important nineteenth century figures, Hegel and Kierkegaard, who provide a challenge to Kant's view.
On the one hand, obligations to self are a mainstay of moral theories – most famously Kant’s – as well as ordinary thinking. It is not just academic Kantians who believe in making something of our lives and standing up for ourselves.
1. Aims and Methods of Moral Philosophy. 2. Good Will, Moral Worth and Duty. 3. Duty and Respect for Moral Law. 4. Categorical and Hypothetical Imperatives. 5. The Formula of the Universal Law of Nature. 6. The Humanity Formula. 7. The Autonomy Formula. 8. The Kingdom of Ends Formula.
In summary, then, Stern's book has two foci: (1) the idea of moral obligation as command, by God, self or society, (2) the nature of moral motivation and what makes a person righteous, virtuous or admirable in the highest degree, or what kind of life one is called to.
The problem of moral obligation Moral philosophy characteristically sees moral standards as reasons. That an action would be kind or just or in some way morally admirable is supposed to give us a reason for performing it.
Liane Young’s Boston College lab explores how people interpret the moral actions of others and the brain regions underlying these judgments.
Before defending this view, considers two possible grounds for moral obligation: 1) the goodness of the effects of an action, and 2) the goodness of the act itself.
At the beginning of the second part of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant explains: In ancient times “ethics” signified the doctrine of morals (philosophia moralis) in general, which was also called the doctrine of duties.