Duties and Choices in Philanthropic Giving

2021 ◽  
pp. 172-190
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Michael Slote ◽  
General Duty

Kant held that everyone has a general duty to promote the happiness of others as well as a more stringent duty to help those in distress when one easily can. These are duties of “practical love”: duties to act, not to feel. The general duty does not specify whose happiness to promote or the means and extent of obligatory helping. Several objections from contemporary philosophers are addressed: (1) that Kant’s principle of beneficence as Hill presents it is too “anemic” (David Cummiskey) (2) that Kant requires us to devalue our own happiness (Michael Slote), and (3) that Kant fails to acknowledge that some acts are morally good to do but not required (J. O. Urmson). Then this essay discusses briefly how other moral considerations may affect the application of Kant’s principles to particular cases of philanthropic giving: justice, respect, the kind of help needed, and the motives of the giver.

Contract Formation in Hong Kong

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lusina HO
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Common Law ◽  
General Rule ◽  
Good Faith ◽  
Local Context ◽  
General Duty ◽  
Contract Formation ◽  
Formal Requirement ◽  
The Law

This chapter examines the law on contract formation in Hong Kong which is closely modelled on the English common law but adapts the English solutions to the local context if and when required. The test for ascertaining the parties’ meeting of the minds is objective, the agreement (an offer with a matching acceptance) must be certain, complete, and made with the intention to create legal relations—the latter being presumed to be present in a commercial context and absent in a familial or social context. Offers are freely revocable although the reliance of the offeree is protected in exceptional circumstances. Acceptances become effective as soon as they are dispatched. In the ‘battle of forms’ scenario, the Hong Kong courts follow the traditional ‘last-shot’ rule. There is no general duty to negotiate in good faith, and even agreements to negotiate in good faith are normally unenforceable for lack of certainty. As a general rule, contracts can be validly made without adhering to any formal requirement. Online contracts will normally be valid and enforceable; the formation of such contracts is governed by common law as supplemented by legislation.

Common-Sense Morality and Consequentialism. Michael Slote

Ethics ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-172
Author(s):  
Dale Jamieson
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Michael Slote ◽  
Common Sense Morality

scholarly journals Michael Slote (2007) The ethics of care and empathy

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-78
Author(s):  
Nikola Biller-Andorno
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Michael Slote

General Duty Clause

2020 ◽  
pp. 73-75
Author(s):  
Robert D. Peterson ◽  
Joel M. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
General Duty

scholarly journals Psychiatry in Pakistan (1947–1994): the balance sheet

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 567-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Shafique
Keyword(s):  
Balance Sheet ◽  
General Duty ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Law ◽  
Common Man

At the time of independence (1947) Pakistan with a population of 40 million had three asylum-like hospitals with a total of less than 2000 beds. The hospitals were prison-like and they provided custody with little care. Patients were mostly brought in chains. Detention and reception orders were used for admission as provided in law and the law was and continues to be the Lunacy Act of 1912. The common man referred to them as pagal-khanas (mad houses) or jail hospitals. The doctors appointed were mostly general duty doctors with no training and often no interest in psychiatry and their average stay was two to three years. In place of nurses there was a cadre of attendant staff, most of them illiterate, untrained and acting more like police sepoy or jail warder than nurse.

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