Search results for " Moral Philosophy"

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Adam Smith and the family

2008

This paper examines Adam Smith’s vision of family life and the role of the family in society as it stems from the Theory of Moral Sentiments. We first discuss textual evidences of Smith’s vision of gender differences and of the relationships between the sexes. Then we turn to TMS’s analysis of marriage and family life, exploring the importance of sentiments in strengthening family bonds and in fostering individuals’ moral education. Then we enlarge our perspective, considering Smith’s view on the role of the family within society, especially as market and non market relationships are concerned. Finally, we focus on Smith’s vision of the possible threats which life in Commercial societies ma…

Education.jel:B31Settore SECS-P/04 - Storia Del Pensiero EconomicoMoral Philosophyjel:J16GenderFamilyjel:A13jel:B12Adam Smith; Moral Philosophy; Family; Gender; Education.Adam Smithjel:I20
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Moral Harm and Moral Responsibility: A Defence of Ascriptivism

2012

This paper investigates the relations between the concepts of moral harm and moral responsibility, arguing for a circularity between the two. On this basis the conceptual soundness of descriptivism, on which consequentialist and non-consequentialist arguments are often grounded, is questioned. In the last section a certain version of ascriptivism is defended: the circularity is relevant in order to understand how a restricted version of ascriptivism may in fact be well founded.

Settore IUS/20 - Filosofia Del DirittoMoral Harm Moral Responsibility Ascriptivism Moral Philosophy
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Status filozoficznomoralny i teologicznomoralny ludzkiego ciała, zwłok, komórek, tkanek i narządów w kontekście badań nad ludzkim materiałem biologic…

2020

moral obligations to a dead bodybiobankiStatus filozoficznomoralny ciałaresearch on human biological materialbiobanksStatus of the body from the perspective of moral philosophystatus teologicznomoralny ciałazobowiązania moralne wobec martwego ciałabadania na ludzkim materiale biologicznym
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Introduzione

2022

Introduction to the anthology of essays on ethics, phenomenological ethics, history of moral philosophy and ethics and politics

phenomenological ethics history of moral philosophySettore M-FIL/03 - Filosofia Morale
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