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  1. Nov 22, 2009 · Knowledge refers to an expertise or skills possessed or acquired by an individual. Knowledge refers to an understanding of the world around us that helps us to lead our life as a member of society. It helps to predict events and hence to mitigate the suffering or enhance the well-being of individuals and groups.

  2. May 6, 2021 · Understanding is a protean concept in philosophy, and the desire for understanding is pervasive in everyday life. Scientists take it as their goal to understand the world and how it works, teachers and parents hope to transmit understanding to their students and children, and from a political and social point of view we often strive for mutual understanding.

  3. Feb 23, 2021 · There is a good amount of literature discussing ethics, morals, principles, values, virtues, and beliefs particularly in the fields of moral philosophy, organizational ethics, and even in consumer behaviour, but very few articles attempt to distinguish between them as they are collectively and often interchangeably used to describe the good in humans.

  4. Jan 1, 2023 · Introduction. In addition to defining key terms, an account of ethical values and personal integrity must explain where ethical values can exist and where they originate; question whether values are ephemeral or enduring, and explain why some values endure while others do not; examine whether there is one greatest ethical value or if there are ...

  5. Dec 14, 2021 · The chapter focuses on ethics. Both Hume (an empiricist) and Kant (a rationalist) distinguish the Ought from the Is, Values from Facts, and Morality from Science. The author offers an exhaustive matrix of ethical principles and criteria in Western thought, from Relativism to Absolutism, available for the choosing.

  6. 2. Social ethical values. Social ethical values are closely related to interaction and ethical behavior in the social and societal context. They are the values that encourage ethical and respectful coexistence for all, promoting collaboration between members of a community. Examples of these are respect, tolerance, equality and solidarity.

  7. Mar 16, 2012 · Reaching understanding is one of our central epistemic goals, dictated by our important motivational epistemic virtue, namely inquisitiveness about the way things hang together. Understanding of humanly important causal dependencies is also the basic factual-theoretic ingredient of wisdom on the anthropocentric view proposed in the article. It appears at two levels. At the first level of ...