"In the End I Just Said O.K.": Political and Moral Dimensions of Escape Aid at the Swiss Border

The story of Lot is one of many shared by the Qur'an and the Torah, and Lot's offer of his two daughters to his people is presented in a similar way in the two books. This article compares the status of Lot in the Qur'an and Torah, and explores the moral dimensions of his character, and what scholars of the two religions make of this story. The significance of the episodes in which Lot offers his daughters to his people lies in the similarities and differences of the accounts given in the two books and the fact that, in both the past and the present, this story has presented moral problems and criticism has been leveled at Lot. Context is crucial in understanding this story, and exploration of the ways in which Lot and his people are presented is also useful in terms of comparative studies of the two scriptures. This article is divided into three sections: the first explores the depiction of Lot in the two texts, the second explores his moral limitations, and the third discusses the interpretations of various exegetes and scholars of the two books. Although there are similarities between the Qur'anic and Talmudic accounts of this episode, it is read differently by scholars from the two religions because of the different contexts of the respective accounts.

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Value and Character Education Based on Qur’anic

International Conference of Moslem Society ◽

10.24090/icms.2016.1829 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 182-188

Author(s):

Eva Nurhaeny

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Character Education ◽

Young Generation ◽

Human Being ◽

Human Beings ◽

Human Individual ◽

Moral Dimensions ◽

Long Life ◽

Culture Development ◽

Education Concept

This essay discusses based on Qur’anic value and character education. In gobalization era, it has great impact on young behaviour change such as fighting, free sex, drug and other delinquencies. The occurred result is serious enough and it cannot be assumed just as a simple matter again, mainly that the subjects and the victim are young people whose have professions as students. The fact indicates that education world has to give an important role toward preventing national moral decadency in the effort of preparing the better future young generation. In this regard, we are aware that the education goal, basically, is to build better morality of human being or in another term is to “humanize the human being”. An idea regarding the significance of character education was appeared as a given solution in answering the morality problem in Indonesian education world. Character education is part of value education. That why, looking for the character education concept has been very urgent in the effort of preparing excellent, faithful, professional and personalized leaner as being asked by the education goal. The essence of characterized behavior actually is the psychological totality form which includes the whole human individual potency of cognitive, affective and psycho-motoric aspects, and also socio-cultural totality function in the context of interaction with God, him or herself, other human beings and the environment in his or her long life. Furthermore, in Qur’an’s teaching, the figure of the Messenger Peace be upon him (PBUH) is viewed as “the model human being”. In this context, the concept of Qur’anic charactereducation can be found through three moral dimensions that should be actualized in human being personality. They are the morality toward Allah (spiritual quotient/ intelligence), the morality toward our self (emotional quotient) and the morality toward Allah’s creatures, human being and environment (social quotient). Then, school should make the Holy Qur’an as the foundation of character education’s implementation whereas the implementation form in the school can be developed through intra-curricular, extra-curricular or personality and school culture development.

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Moral Norms in Social Contexts

10.1093/oso/9780198830405.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Lisa Herzog

Keyword(s):

Division Of Labour ◽

Social Contexts ◽

Moral Norms ◽

Overlapping Consensus ◽

Social Sphere ◽

Moral Theories ◽

Moral Dimensions ◽

Collective Harm ◽

Normative Foundations

This chapter sets out the normative foundations on which the book is based. It starts by defending the case for the ‘pervasiveness’ of morality: no social sphere is ‘beyond’ morality, even if there is some degree of institutional ‘division of labour’. Next, it states and explains the moral norms this study is based on: the norm to respect all individuals as moral equals, and norms about the avoidance of individual harm, and about avoiding contributing to collective harm. These norms lie within an ‘overlapping consensus’ of different moral theories and worldviews. In pluralist societies, we should focus on such a consensus—even if it may sometimes be hard to delineate—when reflecting on the moral dimensions of organizations.

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Does Poverty Wear a Woman's Face? Some Moral Dimensions of a Transnational Feminist Research Project

Hypatia ◽

10.1111/hypa.12022 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 240-256 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Alison M. Jaggar

Keyword(s):

Feminist Research ◽

Moral Judgments ◽

Global Poverty ◽

Research Project ◽

Decent Life ◽

Moral Argumentation ◽

The World ◽

Moral Dimensions

This article explains some moral dimensions of a transnational feminist research project designed to provide a better standard or metric for measuring poverty across the world. The author is an investigator on this project. Poverty metrics incorporate moral judgments about what is necessary for a decent life, so justifying metrics requires moral argumentation. The article clarifies the moral aspects of poverty valuation, indicates some moral flaws in existing global poverty metrics, and outlines some conditions for a better global metric. It then explains the methodology used in our project, providing its moral rationale and discussing some remaining moral concerns.

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The Distinct Wrong of Deepfakes

Philosophy & Technology ◽

10.1007/s13347-021-00459-2 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Adrienne de Ruiter

Keyword(s):

Digital Data ◽

Main Argument ◽

Ethical Challenges ◽

Ethical Implications ◽

Digital Representations ◽

Distinctive Aspect ◽

Moral Dimensions ◽

Audio Files ◽

Potential Use ◽

Identity Protection

AbstractDeepfake technology presents significant ethical challenges. The ability to produce realistic looking and sounding video or audio files of people doing or saying things they did not do or say brings with it unprecedented opportunities for deception. The literature that addresses the ethical implications of deepfakes raises concerns about their potential use for blackmail, intimidation, and sabotage, ideological influencing, and incitement to violence as well as broader implications for trust and accountability. While this literature importantly identifies and signals the potentially far-reaching consequences, less attention is paid to the moral dimensions of deepfake technology and deepfakes themselves. This article will help fill this gap by analysing whether deepfake technology and deepfakes are intrinsically morally wrong, and if so, why. The main argument is that deepfake technology and deepfakes are morally suspect, but not inherently morally wrong. Three factors are central to determining whether a deepfake is morally problematic: (i) whether the deepfaked person(s) would object to the way in which they are represented; (ii) whether the deepfake deceives viewers; and (iii) the intent with which the deepfake was created. The most distinctive aspect that renders deepfakes morally wrong is when they use digital data representing the image and/or voice of persons to portray them in ways in which they would be unwilling to be portrayed. Since our image and voice are closely linked to our identity, protection against the manipulation of hyper-realistic digital representations of our image and voice should be considered a fundamental moral right in the age of deepfakes.

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Accidental environmentalist or ethical elite? The moral dimensions of environmental impact

Poetics ◽

10.1016/j.poetic.2020.101448 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 82 ◽

pp. 101448

Author(s):

Emily Huddart Kennedy ◽

Christine Horne

Keyword(s):

Environmental Impact ◽

Moral Dimensions

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Moral dimensions of human-wildlife conflict

Conservation Biology ◽

10.1111/cobi.12731 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 30 (6) ◽

pp. 1200-1211 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Michelle L. Lute ◽

Carlos David Navarrete ◽

Michael Paul Nelson ◽

Meredith L. Gore

Keyword(s):

Wildlife Conflict ◽

Moral Dimensions ◽

Human Wildlife Conflict

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From Society to Self (and Back) through Place: Habit in Transactional Context

OTJR Occupation Participation and Health ◽

10.1177/15394492070270s107 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 27 (1_suppl) ◽

pp. 50S-59S ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Malcolm P. Cutchin

Keyword(s):

Essential Role ◽

The Social ◽

Moral Dimensions ◽

The Individual

This argument extends the efforts of scholars of occupation and habit in several ways. It extends previous examinations of John Dewey's perspective on habit by bringing to the forefront his view of the social and moral dimensions of habit in the context of his larger metaphysical ground-map. That view suggests a habit process involving the transaction of the social and the individual, with habit as central to that transaction. Dewey's view is further enhanced with a portrayal of how it operates in the material experience of place and landscape. Examples from several scales of place are discussed to illustrate the essential role of material landscapes in this habit process. Using these analyses, the concept of rehabilitation is reconsidered.

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Virtue Ethics and/or Virtue Epistemology: A Response to Anton Froeyman

Journal of the Philosophy of History ◽

10.1163/18722636-12341240 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 432-446

Author(s):

Herman Paul

Keyword(s):

Virtue Ethics ◽

Professional Practice ◽

Virtue Epistemology ◽

Ethical Perspective ◽

Moral Virtues ◽

Intellectual Courage ◽

Virtuous Behavior ◽

Moral Dimensions ◽

Ethical Approaches

Abstract In response to Anton Froeyman’s paper, “Virtues of Historiography,” this article argues that philosophers of history interested in why historians cherish such virtues as carefulness, impartiality, and intellectual courage would do wise not to classify these virtues unequivocally as either epistemic or moral virtues. Likewise, in trying to grasp the roles that virtues play in the historian’s professional practice, philosophers of history would be best advised to avoid adopting either an epistemological or an ethical perspective. Assuming that the historian’s virtuous behavior has epistemic and moral dimensions (as well as aesthetic, political, and other dimensions), this article advocates a non-reductionist account of historical scholarship, which acknowledges that the virtues cherished by historians usually play a variety of roles, depending on the goals they are supposed to serve. Given that not the least important of these goals are epistemic ones, the articles concludes that virtue ethical approaches, to the extent that they are focused on the acquisition of moral instead of epistemic goods, insufficiently recognize the role of virtue in the pursuit of such epistemic aims as knowledge and understanding.

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