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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.


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TL;DR: In the early Roman Empire, sexual morality and sexual practice underwent a profound transformation between the age of Cesar and that of Marcus Aurelius, and marriage became an institution adopted throughout the society.
Abstract: The family and love in the Early Roman Empire ; ; Between the age of Cesar and that of Marcus Aurelius, sexual morality and sexual practice underwent a profound transformation A sexuality in which the essential thing was to be active, was generally replaced by a heterosexual sexuality; a morality of obligatory acts gave way to a morality of conjugal love, in which the couple was the normal unit; and, finally, marriage became an institution adopted throughout the society More generally, a morality of statutory acts (which differed according to social class) and of interdictions rooted simply in the feeling of shame gave way to universalist morality of interiorized virtues, in which the forbidden became a matter of morality or of immora- lity The causes of this transformation were political (transition from a competitive feudal system to a service nobility) and psychological (capacity of self-affirmation plebian conservatism and self-repression) Now, this pagan morality of the time of the Antonines is identical to Christian morality; yet it took form before the spread of Christianity This suggests not that we should reverse the relationship morality-religion but rather that we should split up the aggregate called "religion" into a number of distinct aspects

114 citations

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TL;DR: This article found that high moral identifiers are more likely to show a compensatory reaction rather than a consistency reaction to their previous dishonesty, which is consistent with the concept of moral identity.

114 citations

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Leigh Turner1
TL;DR: A more realistic recognition of multiple moral traditions in pluralist societies would be considerably more skeptical about the contributions that common morality approaches in bioethics can make to resolving contentious moral issues.
Abstract: Many bioethicists assume that morality is in a state of wide reflective equilibrium. According to this model of moral deliberation, public policymaking can build upon a core common morality that is pretheoretical and provides a basis for practical reasoning. Proponents of the common morality approach to moral deliberation make three assumptions that deserve to be viewed with skepticism. First, they commonly assume that there is a universal, transhistorical common morality that can serve as a normative baseline for judging various actions and practices. Second, advocates of the common morality approach assume that the common morality is in a state of relatively stable, ordered, wide reflective equilibrium. Third, casuists, principlists, and other proponents of common morality approaches assume that the common morality can serve as a basis for the specification of particular policies and practical recommendations. These three claims fail to recognize the plural moral traditions that are found in multicultural, multiethnic, multifaith societies such as the United States and Canada. A more realistic recognition of multiple moral traditions in pluralist societies would be considerable more skeptical about the contributions that common morality approaches in bioethics can make to resolving contentious moral issues.

113 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, personality differences in empathy and perspective taking differentially relate to disapproval of unethical negotiation strategies, such as lies and bribes, and the comparatively private nature of the sin of false promises suggests that private ethical breaches are more likely to be deterred by anticipated guilt.
Abstract: Two correlational studies tested whether personality differences in empathy and perspective taking differentially relate to disapproval of unethical negotiation strategies, such as lies and bribes Across both studies, empathy, but not perspective taking, discouraged attacking opponents’ networks, misrepresentation, inappropriate information gathering, and feigning emotions to manipulate opponents These results suggest that unethical bargaining is more likely to be deterred by empathy than by perspective taking Study 2 also tested whether individual differences in guilt proneness and shame proneness inhibited the endorsement of unethical bargaining tactics Guilt proneness predicted disapproval of false promises and misrepresentation Empathy did not predict disapproval of false promises when guilt proneness was included in the analysis The comparatively private nature of the sin of false promises suggests that private ethical breaches are more likely to be deterred by anticipated guilt, while ethical breaches with clear interpersonal consequences are more likely to be deterred by empathy

113 citations

Book
02 Nov 2011
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an argument against utilitarianism from moral rationalism, arguing that rational rationalism leads us to reject utilitarianism, and that rationalism compels us to accept consequentialism.
Abstract: 1. Why I Am Not a Utilitarian 1.1 Utilitarianism: The good, the bad, and the ugly 1.2 The plan for the rest of the book 1.3 My aims 1.4 Objective oughts and objective reasons 1.5 Conventions that I will follow throughout the book 2. Consequentialism and Moral Rationalism 2.1 The too-demanding objection: How moral rationalism leads us to reject utilitarianism 2.2 The argument against utilitarianism from moral rationalism 2.3 How moral rationalism compels us to accept consequentialism 2.4 What is consequentialism? 2.5 The presumptive case for moral rationalism 2.6 Some concluding remarks 3. The Teleological Conception of Practical Reasons 3.1 Getting clear on what the view is 3.2 Clearing up some misconceptions about the view 3.3 Scanlon's putative counterexamples to the view 3.4 Arguments for the view 4. Consequentializing Commonsense Morality 4.1 How to consequentialize 4.2 The deontic equivalence thesis 4.3 Beyond the deontic equivalence thesis: How consequentialist theories can do a better job of accounting for our considered moral convictions than even some nonconsequentialist theories can 4.4 The implications of the deontic equivalence thesis 4.5 An objection 5. Dual-Ranking Act-Consequentialism: Reasons, Morality, and Overridingness 5.1 Some quick clarifications 5.2 Moral reasons, overridingness, and agent-centered options 5.3 Moral reasons, overridingness, and supererogation 5.4 A meta-criterion of rightness and how it leads us to adopt dual-ranking act-consequentialism 5.5 Norcross's objection 5.6 Splawn's objection 5.7 Violations of the transitivity and independence axioms 6. Imperfect Reasons and Rational Options 6.1 Kagan's objection: Are we sacrificing rational options to get moral options? 6.2 Imperfect reasons and rational options 6.3 Securitism 6.4 Securitism and the basic belief 6.5 Securitism's suppositions and implications 7. Commonsense Consequentialism 7.1 The best version of act-utilitarianism: commonsense utilitarianism 7.2 Securitist consequentialism and the argument for it 7.3 Commonsense consequentialism and how it compares with traditional act-consequentialism 7.4 What has been shown and what remains to be shown

113 citations


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Performance
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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20231,329
20222,639
2021652
2020815
2019825
2018831