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It can look descriptively at moral behaviour and judgements; it can give practical advice (normative ethics), or it can analyse and theorise about the nature of morality and ethics. [1] Contemporary study of ethics has many links with other disciplines in philosophy itself and other sciences. [2]
This is a list of events that fit the sociological definition of a moral panic. In sociology, a moral panic is a period of increased and widespread societal concern over some group or issue, in which the public reaction to such group or issue is disproportional to its actual threat. The concern is further fueled by mass media and moral ...
[2] In 1996 Korsgaard published a book entitled The Sources of Normativity , which was the revised version of her Tanner Lectures on Human Values , and also a collection of her past papers on Kant 's moral philosophy and Kantian approaches to contemporary moral philosophy: Creating the Kingdom of Ends .
A related field is the ethics of artificial intelligence, which addresses such problems as the existence of moral personhood of AIs, the possibility of moral obligations to AIs (for instance, the right of a possibly sentient computer system to not be turned off), and the question of making AIs that behave ethically towards humans and others.
Contemporary Moral Issues Institution Northeastern University Instructor Katy Shorey Wikipedia Expert Brianda (Wiki Ed) Subject Course dates 2025-01-06 00:00:00 UTC – 2025-04-22 23:59:59 UTC Approximate number of student editors 40
White Americans – non-racist white identity. White Anglo-Saxon Protestant — on talk page there are claims of non-neutrality. Wiretapping; Paul Wolfowitz; Womyn – alternative spelling of women. Xinjiang . Xinjiang re-education camps; Yugoslavia – breakup of the country. Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Zimbabwe
One important characteristic of many normative moral theories such as consequentialism is the ability to produce practical moral judgements. At the very least, any moral theory needs to define the standpoint from which the goodness of the consequences are to be determined. What is primarily at stake here is the responsibility of the agent. [41]
The problem, MacIntyre maintains, is that teleological morality was developed to overcome defects in human nature; to posit an example of the ideal. Without this notion of ‘perfect humanity’ the only remaining foundation to build a moral theory on was the foundation of imperfect human nature. [63]