Concept
Applied ethics
Overview
branch of philosophy
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The present desideratum in ethical theory would appear to be, not further attempts at definition of a moral ideal of any sort, but the development of a logical method for the valuation of ideals and ends in which the results of more modern researches in the theory of knowledge should be made use of--in which the concept of self should play the part, not of the concept of Substance in a rationalistic…
John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory
Close in meaning to Applied ethics; the term itself is not named.
Now there is no doubt that this practice, and the resulting culture of our reason in judging merely of the practical, must gradually produce a certain interest even in the law of reason, and consequently in morally good actions. For we ultimately take a liking for a thing, the contemplation of which makes us feel that the use of our cognitive faculties is extended; and this extension is especially furthered by that…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Practical Reason
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Practical laws, in so far as they are subjective grounds of actions, that is, subjective principles, are termed maxims. The judgements of moral according to in its purity and ultimate results are framed according ideas; the observance of its laws, according to maxims. The whole course of our life must be subject to moral maxims; but this is impossible, unless with the moral law, which is a mere idea, reason connects…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
States what Applied ethics is; the author is tied to Applied ethics in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Applied ethics
- Judith Jarvis Thomson
- Peter Singer
- Leonard Peikoff
- Thomas Metzinger
- James Franklin (philosopher)
- Roger Crisp
- Rosalind Hursthouse
- Frances Kamm
- Alexander Pruss
- J. Baird Callicott
- Susan Sherwin
- Saul Smilansky
- Ole Martin Moen
- Louis Pojman
Related ideas
- Immanuel Kant
- Stephen Toulmin
- John Stuart Mill
- Justice
- Environmental ethics
- Paradigm
- Duty
- Autonomy
- Bioethics
- Henry Sidgwick
- Categorical imperative
- Thomas Aquinas
- Natural law
- R. M. Hare
- Prima facie
- Virtue ethics
- Preference
- Deontology
- Theory
- Aristotle
- Utilitarianism
- Morality
- Intention
- Jeremy Bentham
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