The usefulness of concepts as a methodological point of reference in applied ethics

The debate about the so called “excluding design” has been a focus for applied philosophy for several years. The structure of this debate is constituted by deontological and consequentialist’s applied ethics and as well as agonistic democratic approaches. This paper asks for the applicability of these points of view to the particular socio-political reality of Montevideo. Examining this reality closer, I hold that we cannot comprehend the recent aestheticization of the excluding design there through these contemporary philosophical frameworks. As an alternative philosophical procedure, I analyze the aestheticization of excluding design in Montevideo from Rahel Jaeggi’s immanent criticism. I hold that this process of aestheticization implies an ideological regressive “form of life”. And I also argue that the Uruguayan democracy is affected by this ideological regression. Nevertheless, because this aestheticization is not an exclusive Uruguayan phenomenon, this paper intends to open one direction in applied philosophy of urban design.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423632.003.0018 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Vanessa Lemm

Keyword(s):

Friedrich Nietzsche ◽

Michel Foucault ◽

Gilles Deleuze ◽

Georges Bataille ◽

Giorgio Agamben ◽

Eternal Recurrence ◽

German Philosopher ◽

Point Of Reference

Readers of Giorgio Agamben would agree that the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) is not one of his primary interlocutors. As such, Agamben’s engagement with Nietzsche is different from the French reception of Nietzsche’s philosophy in Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Georges Bataille, as well as in his contemporary Italian colleague Roberto Esposito, for whom Nietzsche’s philosophy is a key point of reference in their thinking of politics beyond sovereignty. Agamben’s stance towards the thought of Nietzsche may seem ambiguous to some readers, in particular with regard to his shifting position on Nietzsche’s much-debated vision of the eternal recurrence of the same.

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¿Libertad y/o planificacion? Releyendo a Karl Mannheim en su cincuentenario

Contrastes Revista Internacional de Filosofía ◽

10.24310/contrastescontrastes.v2i0.1834 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

Author(s):

Juan Ramón Tirado Rozúa

Keyword(s):

Fiftieth Anniversary ◽

Democratic Process ◽

Karl Mannheim ◽

Mass Society ◽

Formal Procedure ◽

Point Of Reference

RESUMENEl presente artículo trata de poner de manifiesto con motivo del cincuentenario de la muerte de K. Mannheim la actualdiad de su pensamiento del período anglosajón. Se analiza cómo los procesos históricos fruto del desarrollo desproporcionado de las capacidades humanas -moral e instrumental- han abocado en la sociedad masa. También se trata de poner de manifiesto el nuevo sentido de la libertad y la planificación en las sociedades altamente desarrolladas, así como las nuevas posibilidades de democratización que se abren en su seno, tomando como marco de referencia una "democracia militante" cuyo fundamento es la convicción básica de que el proceso democrático no es un mero procedimiento formal.PALABRAS CLAVEMANNHEIM-LIBERTAD-PLANIFICACIONABSTRACTOn the ocassion of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of K. Mannheim, this paper tries to highlight the presnet day validity of his ideas of the last period. i analyze how historic processed caused by disproportionate development of human capacities- both moral and instrumental- have led to a "mass society". I also try to point out the new sense that the concepts of freedom and planning acquire in highly developed societies and also the new posibilities of democratization that emerge in the heart of these, taking as a point of reference a militant democracy" whose foundation is the basic conviction that the democratic process is not a mere formal procedure. KEYWORDSMANNHEIM-FREEDOM-PLANNING

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Leadership, morality and ethics: Developing a practical model for moral decision-making

10.31231/osf.io/8qby6 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alfred W. Kaszniak ◽

Cynda H. Rushton ◽

Joan Halifax

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Applied Ethics ◽

Moral Decision ◽

Moral Decision Making ◽

Contemplative Science ◽

Practical Model

The present paper is the product of collaboration between a neuroscientist, an ethicist, and a contemplative exploring issues around leadership, morality, and ethics. It is an exploration on how people in roles of responsibility can better understand how to engage in discernment processes with more awareness and a deeper sense of responsibility for others and themselves. It draws upon recent research and scholarship in neuroscience, contemplative science, and applied ethics to develop a practical understanding of how moral decision-making works and is essential in this time when there can seem to be an increasing moral vacuum in leadership.

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Computer Ethics as a Field of Applied Ethics

Journal of Information Ethics ◽

10.3172/jie.21.2.52 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 52-70

Author(s):

Herman T. Tavani

Keyword(s):

Applied Ethics ◽

Computer Ethics

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Das tue ich nicht, weil es nicht Pflicht ist. Das Argument der Supererogation und sein Unanständigkeitsproblem

Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung ◽

10.3196/004433020828856890 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 74 (1) ◽

pp. 80-104

Author(s):

Marie-Luise Raters

Keyword(s):

American Literature ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Applied Ethics ◽

Double Effect ◽

Formal Structure ◽

Moral Value ◽

Anglo American

Most arguments of Applied Ethics (e.g.slippery slope argument, argument of double effect) are well analyzed. An exception is the argument 'I do not do this because it is not my duty'. It makes sense to call the argument the 'argument of supererogation' (ASE): Since J. Urmson's essay Saints and Heroes of 1958, those actions are called 'supererogations' which (despite of their moral value) are not supposed to be duties. The argument is widely used not only in Applied Ethics, but also in ordinary moral everyday life. Nevertheless, there is a need of investigation because it has an indecency-problem. The argument is convincing if an actor does not want to risk his life. It seems indecent, however, if an actor refuses a simple favor or a service of friendship with the 'argument of super-erogation', although they both constitute no duties. This paper reconstructs the 'argument of supererogation' as a syllogism. It analyzes its formal structure by benefitting from current Anglo-American literature on supererogation. The overall aim of this paper is to solve the problem of indecency.

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The Applied-Ethical Structural Synthesis of International Development

Problemas del Desarrollo Revista Latinoamericana de Economía ◽

10.22201/iiec.20078951e.2019.197.65856 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 50 (197) ◽

Author(s):

Nikos Astroulakis

Keyword(s):

International Development ◽

Free Market ◽

National Level ◽

Applied Ethics ◽

Global Ethics ◽

Structural Synthesis ◽

Policy Theory ◽

Development Institutions ◽

Market Relations

<p>The paper challenges the mainstream stance in the study of applied ethics<br />in international development. Applied ethics is positioned at the macro-social level<br />of global ethics while a specific codification is attempted by formulating international development based on its structural synthesis, in a threefold level: First, the structural synthesis –associated with the framework of existing international development policy–can be found in the ‘market relations’. Second, the analysis specifies the policies applied at the national level and the role of nation-state policy. Third, the paper criticizes the international development institutions’ policies. In each of the levels mentioned above, the analysis reveals the fundamental policy theory issues of neoclassical economics, as the intellectual defender of free market economics.</p>

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