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.

Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution

Abstract: In Freedom's Law, Ronald Dworkin propounds his theory of constitutional interpretation and applies it to some of the most controversial constitutional issues of the last twenty years, including abortion, affirmative action, pornography, hate speech, gay rights, euthanasia, and free speech. Although each of the chapters of the book was first published as a separate essay, together they provide an engaging and coherent account of Dworkin's constitutional philosophy. In the first part of the book, Dworkin elaborates and argues for what he calls the moral reading of the Constitution. The United States Constitution, like most contemporary constitutions, defines individual rights in very broad and abstract language. The Fourth Amendment, for example, protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures." The Eighth Amendment protects against "cruel and unusual" punishment. According to the moral reading, clauses that incorporate such terms should be construed as referring to "abstract moral principles and las] incorporatling] these by reference, as limits on government's power." (p. 7). The moral reading of the Constitution, on Dworkin's view, implies that "government must treat all those subject to its dominion as having equal moral and political status; it must attempt, in good faith, to treat them all with equal concern; and it must respect whatever individual freedoms are indispensable to those ends, including but not limited to the freedoms more specifically designated in the document, such as the freedoms of speech and religion." (p. 8). Since constitutional rights are not limited to those specifically mentioned in the Constitution, constitutional interpretation requires the sort of analysis that is common to applied moral philosophy. On Dworkin's view, then, one cannot resolve a constitutional question about what equal protection requires without resolving the corresponding moral question of what the moral notion of equality requires. In this way, Dworkin's theory "brings political morality into the heart of constitutional law." (p.2) Unfortunately, Dworkin does not always apply these doctrines consistently in addressing specific legal problems. For example, while the

A History of Drug Use in Sport: 1876 - 1976: Beyond Good and Evil

Abstract: Acknowledgements. Prologue. Part 1 1. Sport, Drugs and Society 2. Doping and the Rise of Modern Sport, 1876-1918 3. The Science Gets Serious, 1920-1945 Part 2 4. Amphetamines and Post War Sport, 1945-1976 5. The Steroids Epidemic, 1945-1976 6. Dealing with the Scandal: Anti-Doping and the New Ethics of Sport, 1945-1965 7. Science, Morality and Policy: the Modernisation of Anti-Doping, 1965-1976 8. Doping, Anti-Doping and the Changing Values of Sport. Epilogue

Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary

Abstract: Acknowledgments Note on sources and key to abbreviations and translations Preface PART ONE: PRELIMINARIES 1. The Nature of and Need for a Metaphysic of Morals: An Analysis of the Preface of GMS 2. Universal Practical Philosophy and Popular Moral Philosophy PART TWO: GMS 1 3. The Good Will 4. Maxims and Moral Worth Redux 5. Kant's Three Propositions, the Supreme Principle of Morality, and the Need for Moral Philosophy PART THREE: GMS 2 6. Rational Agency and Imperatives 7. The Universal Law (FUL) and the Law of Nature (FLN) 8. The Formula of Humanity (FH) 9. Autonomy, Heteronomy, and Constructing the Categorical Imperative PART FOUR: GMS 3 10. The Moral Law, the Categorical Imperative, and the Reciprocity Thesis 11. The Presupposition of Freedom, The Circle, and the two Standpoints 12. The Deduction of the Categorical Imperative and the Outermost Boundary of Practical Philosophy

How personality and moral identity relate to individuals' ethical ideology

Abstract: Two studies tested the relationship between three facets of personality—conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness to experience—as well as moral identity, on individuals’ ethical ideology. Study 1 showed that moral personality and the centrality of moral identity to the self were associated with a more principled (versus expedient) ethical ideology in a sample of female speech therapists. Study 2 replicated these findings in a sample of male and female college students, and showed that ideology mediated the relationship between personality, moral identity, and two organizationally relevant outcomes: organizational citizenship behavior and the propensity to morally disengage. Implications for business ethics are discussed.