Does love require us to kill him or to refrain from killing him? other major religious rules of conduct are usually vague, laying out general principles that may be difficult to apply to specific cases. (Sec- ular moral codes have the same disadvantage.) For example, we may be commanded to love our neigh- bor, but […]
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If our terminally ill neighbor asks us in the name of love to help him kill himself, what should we do? other major religious rules of conduct are usually vague, laying out general principles that may be difficult to apply to specific cases. (Sec- ular moral codes have the same disadvantage.) For example, we may
How does love require us to behave toward the drug dealers, the gay couple, or the person who denounces our religion? other major religious rules of conduct are usually vague, laying out general principles that may be difficult to apply to specific cases. (Sec- ular moral codes have the same disadvantage.) For example, we may
what does loving our neighbor demand of us? other major religious rules of conduct are usually vague, laying out general principles that may be difficult to apply to specific cases. (Sec- ular moral codes have the same disadvantage.) For example, we may be commanded to love our neigh- bor, but what neighbors are included— people
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we may be commanded to love our neighbor, but what neighbors are included people of a different religion? other major religious rules of conduct are usually vague, laying out general principles that may be difficult to apply to specific cases. (Sec- ular moral codes have the same disadvantage.) For example, we may be commanded to
Is there such a thing as moral truth? THE ELEMENTS OF ETHICS We all do ethics, and we all have a general sense of what is involved. But we can still ask, What are the elements of ethics that make it the peculiar enterprise that it is? We can include at least the following factors:
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How can a moral principle be justified? We all do ethics, and we all have a general sense of what is involved. But we can still ask, What are the elements of ethics that make it the peculiar enterprise that it is? We can include at least the following factors: The Preeminence of Reason Doing
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What are the elements of ethics that make it the peculiar enterprise that it is? We all do ethics, and we all have a general sense of what is involved. But we can still ask, What are the elements of ethics that make it the peculiar enterprise that it is? We can include at least
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THE ELEMENTS OF ETHICS We all do ethics, and we all have a general sense of what is involved. But we can still ask, What are the elements of ethics that make it the peculiar enterprise that it is? We can include at least the following factors: The Preeminence of Reason Doing ethics typically involves
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THE ETHICAL LANDSCAPE The domain of ethics is large, divided into several areas of investigation and cordoned off from related subjects. So let us map the territory care- fully. As the term moral philosophy suggests, ethics is a branch of philosophy. A very rough character- ization of philosophy is the systematic use of criti- cal
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