Moral Conscientiousness and the Subjectivism/Objectivism Debate about Moral Wrongness

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-48
Author(s):  
Peter A. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Moral Status ◽  
Choice Situation ◽  
Recent Argument ◽  
Moral Wrongness

The Subjectivism/Objectivism debate is a debate about the facts the an action’s moral status is grounded in. Subjectivists maintain that an action’s moral status is grounded in the subjective circumstances of the agent at the time of its performance. Objectivists deny this. This chapter defends the Objectivist view against a recent argument against it by championing a picture of moral conscientiousness which is at odds with a central premise of that argument. The picture of moral conscientiousness defended is one that crucially sees the morally conscientious person’s concern not to act wrongly as degreed and sensitive to the degrees of wrongness of the options facing the morally conscientious agent. After motivating this particular conception of moral conscientiousness and defending Objectivism against the argument against it, the chapter further develops the Objectivist picture of the moral status of actions and explains the Objectivist’s conception of the relation between moral wrongness and what a morally conscientious person ought to do in her choice situation.

Ethics, Morality and Crop Biotechnology. 1. Intrinsic Concerns

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Straughan
Keyword(s):  
Moral Status ◽  
Selective Breeding ◽  
Natural World ◽  
World Assumptions ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Modern Biotechnology ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Crop Biotechnology ◽  
Key Questions ◽  
Moral Wrongness

There are a variety of intrinsic concerns about the ethics of crop biotechnology, These concerns stem from a number of separable but loosely linked assumptions about the religious and moral status of the natural world and about the relationship that mankind should have with that world. Assumptions of this kind, some of which appear to be widely held, cannot be proved right or wrong, but they should be analysed in order to clarify the concepts and principles on which they depend. Some of the key questions are: Should religious believers see modern biotechnology as a blasphemous affront to God or a creative opportunity to work with him? Can any moral guidelines be provided by what happens in Nature? Can any charges of intrinsic moral wrongness be brought against crop biotechnology which are not equally applicable to traditional methods of selective breeding?

scholarly journals On Moral Obligations and Our Chances of Fulfilling Them

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 625-638
Author(s):  
Farbod Akhlaghi
Keyword(s):  
Moral Status ◽  
Moral Obligation ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Practical Ethics ◽  
Alternative Action ◽  
The Future ◽  
Moral Wrongness

Abstract Many actions we perform affect the chances of fulfilling our moral obligations. The moral status of such actions is important and deeply neglected. In this paper, I begin rectifying this neglect by asking: under what conditions, if any, is it morally wrong to perform an action that will lower the chance of one fulfilling a moral obligation? In §1, I introduce this question and motivate concern with its answer. I argue, in §2, that certain actions an agent has good reason to believe will drastically lower their chances of fulfilling a moral obligation in the future, relative to at least one alternative action available, are pro tanto morally wrong. This answer, I argue, captures our intuitions in a range of cases, avoids the problems that other views considered here face, and can be plausibly defended against some independent objections. I conclude in §3 by noting some consequences for normative and practical ethics of the moral wrongness of at least some actions that lower the chances of fulfilling our moral obligations, and by raising a series of important questions regarding these actions for future consideration.

scholarly journals The Problem of Paternal Motives

Utilitas ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRIS MILLS
Keyword(s):  
Moral Status ◽  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
Respect For Persons ◽  
Recent Argument

In this article I assess the ability of motivational accounts of paternalism to respond to a particular challenge: can its proponents adequately explain the source of the distinctive form of disrespect that animates this view? In particular I examine the recent argument put forward by Jonathan Quong that we can explain the presumptive wrong of paternalism by relying on a Rawlsian account of moral status. I challenge the plausibility of Quong's argument, claiming that although this approach can provide a clear response to the explanatory challenge, it is only successful in doing so when it relies on the strength of its rival: the argument from personal autonomy. In doing so I illustrate that such responses are conceptually dependent on an account of respect for persons, and thus much of the relevant controversy is actually disagreement over how we respect other individuals.

Christus Virgo

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-27
Author(s):  
Sissel Undheim
Keyword(s):  
Moral Status ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church

The description of Christ as a virgin, 'Christus virgo', does occur at rare occasions in Early Christian and late antique texts. Considering that 'virgo' was a term that most commonly described the sexual and moral status of a member of the female sex, such representations of Christ as a virgin may exemplify some of the complex negotiations over gender, salvation, sanctity and Christology that we find in the writings of the Church fathers. The article provides some suggestions as to how we can understand the notion of the virgin Christ within the context of early Christian and late antique theological debates on the one hand, and in light of the growing interest in sacred virginity on the other.

On the Moral Status of Disgust

2018 ◽  
Vol 122 ◽  
pp. 51-84
Author(s):  
Dayk Jang ◽  
Min-seop Lee
Keyword(s):  
Moral Status

Architecture after Drafting

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-134
Author(s):  
Keller Sean
Keyword(s):  
Dominant Role ◽  
Recent Argument ◽  
Critical Response ◽  
Computational Representations

"In den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten wurde die Dominanz des Zeichnens für die Architektur von einer ganzen Reihe von digitalen Repräsentationstechniken verdrängt. Der Beitrag stellt eine kritische Antwort auf Mario Carpos These dar, dieser Wandel bringe Architektur zu einer »autographischen« Praxis zurück, die noch vor die Renaissance zurückreiche. Demgegenüber argumentiert der Beitrag, dass Architektur nach dem Modell von Rosalind Kraus als post-medium art (»postmediale Kunst«) gedacht werden sollte. </br></br>Over the last two decades drawing has been displaced from its dominant role in architecture by a range of computational representations. This article offers a critical response to Mario Carpo's recent argument that this shift returns architecture to an 〉autographic〈 mode of practice not seen since before the Renaissance. In contrast, I suggest that architecture today should be thought of through Rosalind Krauss's model of a post-medium art. "

A book of protection: Hoja Ahmad Yassawi's "Devoni Hikmat"

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-160
Author(s):  
Khurshida Salimovna Safarova ◽  
Shakhnoza Islomovna Vosiyeva
Keyword(s):  
Moral Status ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Universe

Every great fiction book is a book that portrays the uniqueness of the universe and man, the difficulty of breaking that bond, or the weakening of its bond and the increase in human. The creation of such a book is beyond the reach of all creators, and not all works can illuminate the cultural, spiritual and moral status of any nation in the world by unraveling the underlying foundations of humanity. With the birth of Hoja Ahmad Yassawi's “Devoni Hikmat”, the Turkic nations were recognized as a nation with its own book of teaching, literally, the encyclopedia of enlightenment, truth and spirituality.

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