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Do percentages of negative things in a given sample matter more or less than the quantity of negative things?
Do percentages of negative things in a given sample matter more or less than the quantity of negative things? And is there a name for this concept? Is it some sort of fallacy to appeal to percentages?
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How has Foucault Philosophy of Surveillance been critiqued?
One of the horrors of the communist police-states of Eastern Europe was the incredible amount of information that the police force kept on the general population. This was often not gathered just by ...
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How would you apply John Rawls "Theory of justice" to everyday decisions?
How can I apply John Rawls theory of justice to everyday decision making?
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How can Kantianism prove the existence of perfect duties?
I heard about Kant's reasoning that lying that you return money or about the leads to contradiction in conception.
But how could he even prove that lying under any circumstances leads to ...
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Is there any author that argues for radical moral pluralism?
Let me first clarify what I mean with "radical" here. While many modern authors, if not all, accept moral pluralism of sorts, all that I know of express either the hope, if not the conviction, that ...
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Can moral dilemmas be resolved in an amoral way?
By a moral dilemma I mean a situation in which there are multiple possible courses of action (or inaction) each of which leads to different outcomes and the agent has to choose which one to take. The ...
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Kant acknowledges physical needs as well as moral law, but has he adequately explained why one should win out over the other?
Theorem II, Book 1, of the Critique of Practical Reason acknowledges finite beings, as part of physical nature, and that they have desires and needs, specifically a need to be happy. But the Critique ...
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Was 'life' inherently/objectively good in Nietzsche's philosophy? How to overcome Nihilism?
I understand that after Nietzsche got rid of objective morality in his philosophical process, he went ahead and claimed that even though there is no objective morality that his personal philosophy ...
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The “what” determines the “how”, although in the long run the “how” determines the “what”
I recently stumbled upon a quote from Heinrich Neuhaus' book 'Art of Piano Playing' that got me thinking:
'The "what" determines the "how", although in the long run the "how&...
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Harm Principle and Duty to Rescue - Which "baseline" should an action be compared against when assessing harm?
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As prominently articulated by Mill, liberalism (and the harm principle) asserts that it is always bad for aggregate utility to coercively interfere in ...
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Is Levinas only interested in kind of universal Otherness?
Do I "encounter" the Other if I do not know what my "responsibilities" to them are?
rather than formulating an ethical theory, Levinas developed his philosophy in opposition to ...
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How to argue that some inequality is justifiable in order to maximize the well-being of the worst off in Rawls's theory of justice?
In context, I have to describe what we think is a just society by Rawls theory of justice. I want to try and use Scandinavia, for example, the Nordic Model as a representation as a just society. ...
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How Kant's second formulation of the categorical imperative interacts with consent
Kant's second formulation (or the "ends in themselves" formulation) says:
use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end, never merely as ...
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How do the Officer's Oath and the Enlisted Oath interact
I've come across a military question which is so subtle that I think it has to be answered from a philosophical perspective, dealing with the meaning of "duty" and nuanced things like that.
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Is there any normative theory within pragmatic ethics?
I've read wikipedia's article on pragmatic ethics and it does not produce any norms. Rather, it is only a template for normative ethical theories, like how deontology is a template and CI is a real ...
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