Morality

About: Morality is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 22623 publications have been published within this topic receiving 545733 citations. The topic is also known as: moral & morals.

Women and Caring: What Can Feminists Learn About Morality from Caring? [1989]

Abstract: This chapter not only continues challenging the traditional script about men's and women's caring, it also suggests feminists must be careful about the direction their analysis of care takes. It argues that feminists cannot assume that any attribute of women is automatically a virtue worthy of feminists embracing it. The chapter explores some ways in which caring challenges contemporary moral theory. The moral relevance of attentiveness belies the adequacy of the abstract, exchange-oriented individual as the moral subject. Caring challenges the view that morality starts where rational and autonomous individuals confront each other to work out the rules of moral life. The chapter considers the way in which caring for another raises questions about authority and autonomy between carer and cared-for. It examines how caring for another raises problems that grow out of the particularity of caring. The chapter discusses some aspects of moral life posed by the necessary attentiveness to [the] other's needs when caring for another.

Ethics and Practical Reason

Abstract: Introduction Deciding how to Decide On the Hypothetical and Non-Hypothetical in Reasoning about Action Humean Doubts about the Practical Justification of Morality Practical Theory Moral Judgement and Reasons for Action The Structure of Practical Reason Practical Reason Divided: Aquinas and his Critics The Normativity of Instrumental Reason Kantian Rationalism: Inescapibility, Authority, and Supremacy A Theory of Freedom and Responsibility Reason and Responsibility Reasons and Reason The Amoralist Bibliography. Index.

Teachers' Perceptions of Moral Dilemmas at School.

Abstract: This article discusses the importance of professional morality in teachers' everyday work at school. Different aspects of morality are explored in the framework of the ethos model identified by Fritz Oser. The empirical findings of the moral dilemmas identified by teachers and their solving strategies are explored using both qualitative and quantitative data-gathering methods. Special interest is shown in the principles in teachers' arguments justifying their actions. Teachers' reasoning in solving moral dilemmas is investigated with the help of field-invariant and field-dependent arguments. The best interest of a child is found to be the field-invariant argument behind teachers' thinking in all the categories of moral dilemmas. In general, teachers prefer single-handed decision-making in solving professional dilemmas. The solving strategies are shown be very case specific. In the cases of harassment, teaching criticism and gender issues the teachers are shown to adopt discursive strategies more than in t...

The Cultural Psychology of Self: Place, Morality and Art in Human Worlds

Abstract: Part I: The Centrality of Place for Selfhood 1. Selves and the Need to Navigate Human Worlds: A Cultural Psychological Approach 2. The Brain's Work in Locating Selves 3. Placing Oneself in Personal Time: The Narrative Structure of Self 4. Moral Identity and Cultural-Historical Locations for Selves 5. Self-Creation as Self-Location 6. Pronouns Placing Selves: 'I' and its AssociatesPart II: Location, Dislocation and Relocation: Responsibility, Caring, Art and Changing Prospects 7. Emotions as Self's Pathfinders 8. Childhood, Responsibility and Acquiring Powers to Place Oneself as a Moral Agent 9. Pitilessness and Compassion: Caring Where Others Are 10. Suffering , Radical Dislocation and the Limits of Moral Responsibility 11. Being Moved: Art, Self and Positive Absorption 12. Points of View and None: Visual Art and the Location of Self 13. Individual and National Identity: Analogy, Symbiosis and Artistic Process 14. Psychologies of Maturity: Development or Destination?Conclusion: Navigating Human Worlds Bibliography Index

Morality and Computers: Attitudes and Differences in Judgments

Abstract: Business ethics is an emerging area of research in many subfields of management, including information systems (IS). Empirical IS research has studied differences in users' attitudes and in moral judgments regarding ethical computer-related behavior. This study applied the "domains of morality" approach to determine how users felt about certain computer-related behaviors. Vignettes describing ethical dilemmas involving computer technology (e.g., up-loading a computer virus on an electronic network/bulletin board system) were presented to a sample of Internet users. The research findings offered several interesting and, in some cases, unexpected results. The empirical results indicated that older computer users have a less permissive sense of what is right and wrong for an illegal game. When computers were used to test a banned game, men and women differed in their assessment of its appropriateness. A surprising finding was that participants were not likely to endorse civil liberties, and were more concerned about the harm to, and violations of, social norms when the scenario described a situation involving a computer virus. How users perceive, prejudge, and discriminate computer ethics and abusive computer actions raises numerous questions and implications for IS researchers, IS practitioners, and policy makers. The results of this study foster a better understanding of Internet users' moral categorization of specific computer behaviors and, hopefully, help to further reduce risks and vulnerabilities of systems by identifying computer actions deemed ethically acceptable by users. Opportunities for IS researchers to further explore this timely issue are also discussed.