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May 16, 2024 · The Applied Ethics of Emerging Military and Security Technologies by Braden R. Allenby The essays in this volume illustrate the difficult real world ethical questions and issues arising from accelerating technological change in the military and security domains, and place those challenges in the context of rapidly shifting geopolitical and strategic frameworks.
- Isabel Lopes
- 2013
May 14, 2024 · As a byproduct of this inquiry, in particular, the problem of ethical relativism is examined. The interrelations of logic and ethics have been explored in the literature from countless perspectives. For instance, a great variety of researches on the logic of imperatives, normative statements, and deontic reasoning appeared in the last decades.
May 8, 2024 · Ethics, the philosophical discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong. Its subject consists of fundamental issues of practical decision making, and its major concerns include the nature of ultimate value and the standards by which human actions can be morally evaluated.
May 8, 2024 · morality, the moral beliefs and practices of a culture, community, or religion or a code or system of moral rules, principles, or values. The conceptual foundations and rational consistency of such standards are the subject matter of the philosophical discipline of ethics, also known as moral philosophy. In its contemporary usage, the term ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 7, 2024 · Determining the ethical nature of an individual's actions within a specific society is primarily contingent on the prevailing standards of morality at the broadest level of that society. Consequently, the most appropriate action when making an ethical decision is to consider the overarching and enduring principles that influence society the most. Three significant physician associations in the ...
- Michael Young, Angela Wagner
- 2022/11/28
May 8, 2024 · deontological ethics, in philosophy, ethical theories that place special emphasis on the relationship between duty and the morality of human actions. The term deontology is derived from the Greek deon, “duty,” and logos, “science.”. (Read Peter Singer’s Britannica entry on ethics.) In deontological ethics an action is considered ...
May 23, 2024 · v. t. e. In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophical study of being. It investigates what types of entities exist, how they are grouped into categories, and how they are related to one another on the most fundamental level (and whether there even is a fundamental level). [1]
