Moral Responsibility and Consciousness

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt King ◽  
Peter Carruthers
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Question ◽  
Real Possibility ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

Our goal in this paper is to raise a general question about the relationship between theories of responsibility, on the one hand, and a commitment to conscious attitudes, on the other. The evidence from cognitive science suggests that there are no conscious mental states playing the right causal roles to count as decisions, judgments, or evaluations. We propose that all theorists should determine whether their theories (or the examples that motivate them) could survive the discovery that there are no conscious states of these kinds. Since we take it that theories of moral responsibility should, in general, operate with the weakest possible empirical assumptions about the natural world, such theories should be framed in such a way as to be free of any commitment to the existence of conscious attitudes, given the very real possibility that there might turn out not to be any.

Hell Disarmed? The Function of Hell in Reformation Spirituality

Numen ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 56 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 366-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarald Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Ars Moriendi ◽  
Religious Importance ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Medieval Christianity

In Late Medieval Christianity, the concept of hell was closely connected to the sacrament of penance. Hell could be avoided through the right use of penance. And the cleansing sufferings in purgatory could to a certain extent replace the eternal sufferings in hell. The Protestant Reformation rejected purgatory, and returned to a traditional dualistic view of the relationship between heaven and hell. At the same time, hell seems to lose some of its religious importance in early Protestant spirituality. This change is illustrated through a comparison of two central texts belonging more or less to the same genre: on the one hand the famous Late Medieval illustrated Ars moriendi and on the other Luther's Sermon von der Bereitung zum Sterben from 1519.

Observations on the Morbid Anatomy of Mental Disease

1910 ◽  
Vol 56 (233) ◽  
pp. 227-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
George A. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disease ◽  
Close Correlation ◽  
Mental States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cerebral Hemispheres ◽  
Structural Defects ◽  
Morbid Anatomy ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

The following observations are founded upon the records of 301 autopsies performed by myself at Rainhill Asylum. They are concerned principally with certain abnormal and morbid manifestations which occur within the crania of the insane. Of these the chief are, on the one hand, indications of subevolution, as shown by macroscopic structural defects of the cerebral hemispheres, such as deficiency of weight or of convolutional complexity, and on the other, evidence of dissolution as exhibited by wasting of the cerebral hemispheres. The relationship existing between these abnormal and morbid manifestations and certain other intracranial appearances is also discussed. No attempt, however, has been made—for reasons which will afterwards be given—at any close correlation between these abnormal and morbid manifestations and the mental states recorded during life. The observations, therefore, are of a pathological rather than a clinical nature.

Right of Residence

2019 ◽  
pp. 113-187
Author(s):  
Elspeth Guild ◽  
Steve Peers ◽  
Jonathan Tomkin
Keyword(s):  
Member State ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
Free Movement ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter details the right of residence provided for in the citizens’ Directive. The citizens’ Directive regulates and gives detailed expression to the right of free movement and residence conferred by the Treaties on Union citizens. At its simplest, the Directive regulates residence on the basis of the intended duration of a stay in another Member State. The chapter then evaluates case law which concerns the relationship between the right to equal treatment, on the one hand, and the right of residence, on the other, and whether mobile Union citizens could rely on the principle of equality as a basis for claiming a right to access social benefits and maintaining a right to reside in a host Member State.

IX—Equal Opportunity: A Unifying Framework for Moral, Aesthetic, and Epistemic Responsibility

2020 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Kay Nelkin
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Epistemic Responsibility ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Moral Domain ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

Abstract On the one hand, there seem to be compelling parallels to moral responsibility, blameworthiness, and praiseworthiness in domains other than the moral. For example, we often praise people for their aesthetic and epistemic achievements and blame them for their failures. On the other hand, it has been argued that there is something special about the moral domain, so that at least one robust kind of responsibility can only be found there. In this paper, I argue that we can adopt a unifying framework for locating responsible agency across domains, thereby capturing and explaining more of our actual practices. The key, I argue, is to identify the right conditions for being morally accountable, which I take to be a matter of having an opportunity of a good enough quality to act well. With this account in hand, I argue that we can adopt a unifying framework that allows us to recognize parallels across domains, even as it points the way to important differences among them.

Concerning the Right Time: καιρός in Plato’s Statesman

2018 ◽  
pp. 145-151
Author(s):  
Chelsea Harry
Keyword(s):  
Political Authority ◽  
The Other ◽  
Apparent Contradiction ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Universal Truth ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Stranger ◽  
The Relationship

In her book, Method and politics in Plato’s Statesman (1998), Melissa Lane discusses the relationship between political authority and time. Namely, she asks what the source of political authority could be when, in the Statesman, the Stranger tells us that law cannot be applicable in all situations, for all people, in all times (294b2-6, 295a1-5). In this paper I agree with Lane that the apparent contradiction in the dialogue between, on the one hand, the temporal laws and, on the other hand, the contingency of everyday situations can be explained only in coming to understand the statesman as a master of kairos, or “right timing”. A mastery of kairos, I suggest, does not mean simply that one is able to recognize when it is the right time to do or say something, but rather it must mean that one is able to create the right time, which involves foreknowledge of universal truth and proficiency in the art of putting things together.

scholarly journals Ethnic and Cultural Diversity: Challenges and Opportunities for Health Law

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aart Hendriks
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Health Law ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Disaggregated Data ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractGuaranteeing equal health care of appropriate quality implies taking ethnic and cultural diversity into account, without over- or underestimating the importance of these grounds. Besides awareness of its relevance, it is essential to have disaggregated data to better understand the relationship between ethnicity and culture on the one hand and health and health care on the other hand. From a health law perspective, it is a prerequisite to understand the conceptual and normative meaning of equality and non-discrimination, also in relation to the right to privacy, and to be aware of the need to collaborate with other legal and non-legal disciplines.

eng „Przemoc w wychowaniu”: Prawne oraz pedagogiczne uwagi na temat Monitoringu Rzecznika Praw Dziecka w Polsce

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Błażej Juliusz Kmieciak
Keyword(s):  
Educational Process ◽  
Parental Authority ◽  
The Other ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Violence In Education

Law and education are phenomena that constantly intermingle. On the one hand, in the educational process we use the concepts of rights, freedoms and autonomy. Education must result in shaping a pupils fully mature personality. One of its elements is to build awareness of their rights, taking into account respect for the rights of others. On the other hand, the right is continuously working on society and the individual. It works by: informing, motivating, and educating. The areas of action are related to the relationship that exists between parents and child. This relationship is unique. It refers to the value that family institution has in a society. In the family reveals the crucial role of parental authority. On the other perspective as important it seems to be the problem of respect for the rights of the child which is under the care of their parents. Analyzing the information media and the results of scientific studies more often can be seen the emergence of a particular thread, which is violence. This applies above of violence, which is observed in the educational process. This subject for many years, meets with interest of the Polish, constitutional authority responsible for protecting the child rights, which is the Children Ombudsman. At the end of 2015., on behalf of the above Ombudsman, has been developed an extensive report entitled. “Violence in education. Between the legal ban, and public acceptance. Monitoring of the Children Ombudsman”. Analysis of this document indicates that i society existence a clear and disturbing phenomenon of violence in education. At this point, there are several important questions. In the first place it is worth considering: What is the relationship between the rights of the child and parental authority? Is similar institutions can work together, and "co-exist"? It is also worth to considering: Is education of a child can exist without the element of coercion? Is this compulsion can have a positive face? At the end it is justified to stop the on the socio - legal context of domestic violence formulation. Is the existence of the Polish legal system similar phrases, effectively defends the rights of the family, or may result in the violation of?

scholarly journals Uwagi o mowie cynicznej. Kallikles i Trazymach jako mówcy cyniczni

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-68
Author(s):  
Marcin Pietrzak
Keyword(s):  
Kenneth Burke ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Proper Form ◽  
The One ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

Notes on Cynical Speech. Callicles and Thrasymachusas Cynical SpeakersCynical speech is a proper form of manifestation of what we call cynicism. It takes the form of a persuasive strategy which assumes the achievement of the rhetorical consubstantiation of a cynical speaker and her/his auditorium. Cynical speech is a game that takes place between three sides: a cynical speaker posing as an immoralist, a moralist and an auditorium, the acquisition of which is the aim of both interlocutors. At the outset, the cynical speaker gives the identity of naive dilettantes’ to both the members of the auditorium and the moralist and then tries to persuade the audience to side with him and take on the role of the students of a cynical expert. This is what can be described as cynical modulation. In its course, the initial opposition of a professional versus dilettante turns into an opposition of master versus student, while the unattractive identity of a dilettante is transferred to a moralist. In this way, the speaker achieves what Kenneth Burke thinks is the right goal for any rhetorical act: the speaker’s consubstantiation with the auditorium. This process is presented based on the example of the disputes between Socrates, as a moralist on the one hand, and sophist-politicians Thrasymachus and Callicles, who personify the type of cynical speakers, on the other. The analysis of cynical speech carried out in the paper leads to an indication of some basic features of this way of speaking, as well as the relationship that exists between them and the content of viewpoints voiced by cynical speakers. These viewpoints have been described as aristocratic democratism and people’s anti-democratism. These are two forms of what has been described as the cynical counter-ideal. The adoption of these positions is an indirect expression of the same systematic ambiguity that lies in the form of cynical speaking, which belongs to the very essence of cynicism as a cultural phenomenon.

scholarly journals Love at the right time. The recognition of others in Franz Rosenzweig

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-496
Author(s):  
García Belmonte
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Franz Rosenzweig ◽  
New Thinking ◽  
Love Of Neighbor ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

In this article we delve into the conception of love for neighbor present in The Star of Redemption. Rosenzweig?s New Thinking is in praise of life, despite pain, and by virtue of love. Becoming oneself passes through the relationship with the other. Love of neighbor is born from the recognition of the other as close and representative of all humanity. This love requires going beyond the ?-isms? that separate us; it involves getting closer to the other without denying him or her (or even oneself), but recognizing them as different. But how do we know who we should love at every moment? Prayer, Rosenzweig would say, is the one that enlightens our neighbors matured for love.

scholarly journals Syndrome of one and middle of the vertical look: possible clinical entity associated with percheron artery ischemia: semiological and neuroanatomic aspects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphael Palomo Barreira ◽  
Vanessa Moraes Rossette ◽  
Thomas Zurga Markus Torres ◽  
Beatriz Medeiros Correa ◽  
Thiago da Cruz Marques ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Posterior Commissure ◽  
Lower Rectum ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
The One ◽  
Monocular Paralysis ◽  
The Right ◽  
Bilateral Lesions ◽  
Vertical Gaze ◽  
The Relationship

Context: The acute paralysis of the vertical gaze is usually caused by a mesencephalic lesion because the control of the vertical conjugated gaze is found there; there are three main structures: the rostral interstitial nucleus of the medial longitudinal fascicle (riFLM), the Cajal interstitial nucleus and the posterior commissure (CP). The riFLM, contains burst neurons responsible for the saccades, projecting to the subnuclei of the upper rectum and inferior oblique to look upwards and subnuclei of the lower rectum and superior oblique to look downwards. The projections for the elevators appear to be bilateral, with axons probably crossing within the oculomotor nuclear complex and apparently not via CP; depressors, on the other hand, are ipsilateral. Case report: Female, 78 years old, hypertensive and diabetic, suddenly started with vertical diplopia and vertigo. Examination: Bilateral hypoactive photomotor reflex, bilateral paralysis of the vertical gaze upward, monocular paralysis downward and torsional nystagmus in the left eye. Resonance with restriction the diffusion of water molecules in both thalamus and in the right rostral midbrain. Conclusions: riFLM is vascularized by the posterior thalamus-subthalamic paramedian artery. A single artery, Percheron’s, provides both riFLM in 20% of the population and allows bilateral lesions from a single infarction. Unilateral infarction can also cause saccadic paralysis of the bilateral vertical gaze. The disjunctive disorders of the vertical gaze have two variants of the one and a half syndrome. One consists of bilateral paralysis of the gaze upwards and monocular paresis of the gaze downwards with an ipsilateral or contralateral lesion, described in thalamomesencephalic lesions, explanation for the exposed case. The other is due to bilateral mesodiencephalic infarctions. It is difficult to understand the relationship between topography and the vertical gaze circuit, showing that it is more complex than we imagine. It is probably an association of topographies, little described, but of paramount importance to be discussed and researched.

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