Category: Ethics
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Ethics, Robots, Free will...
Can there be ethics without free will? The sister-site Harmonia Philosophica @ Blogger provides some insight... Check out "Philosophy Wire: Ethics without free will… No ethics at all…". Somehow making our new robots obey orders doesn't sound like a good idea. Obeying orders was the foundation of the deepest evil even known to mankind...
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The fallacy of Education as a Source of Ethics
Harmonia Philosophica keeps on contributing to the philosophical research of what is ethical. The source of ethics is one great question that has been around for millennia and the answer could need a collective holistic approach in how we think. To that end, a new paper has been published by Spyridon Kakos, the details of…
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FISH. BEACH. DEATH. (Inaction as a source of evil)
Beach. Children. Parents. Sun and joy. Some kids catch some small fish. They put them in a bucket of water. Eventually they forget about them for a while and some of the fish die. A little kid is crying. Parents intervene indifferently and put the rest of the fish back into the sea. And life…
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Being ethically inferior. Because you are ethically superior. Opposites. Whole.
Caution! Your feelings of ethical superiority can cause a chain reaction that is detrimental to you, your coworker and your organization, according to Baylor University management research. A new study published in the Journal of Business Ethics suggests that your feelings of ethical superiority can lead you to have negative emotions toward a "less ethical"…
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Understanding morality decision making.
It is wartime. You and your fellow refugees are hiding from enemy soldiers, when a baby begins to cry. You cover her mouth to block the sound. If you remove your hand, her crying will draw the attention of the soldiers, who will kill everyone. If you smother the child, you'll save yourself and the…
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