Interpretation and reason

Article Abstract:

An interpretative account of ethics can best explain how a cross-cultural moral disagreement may be rationally resolved. Although some scholars believe that interpretations are irrational, subjective and relative, these accounts provide rational solutions through community's interpretation of its life as a whole and through explaining the good that motivates a person's position in a cultural disagreement. Analysis also show that the cross-cultural nature of a cross-cultural moral disagreement cannot prevent an interpretative account from rational explanations.

Ethical aspects, Hermeneutics, Cultural relations

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Beyond good and right: toward a constructive ethical pragmatism

Article Abstract:

The process of ethical discussion provides a pragmatic approach to the building of a moral theory. The process by which a person reaches a moral judgement is as important as the judgement itself in providing a basis for formulating a theory of ethics. Ethical theory based on a pattern of discussion would amount to constructive ethical pragmatism. The contradiction between consequentialist and deontological views which arise in other approaches would be eliminated.

Appreciation, Pragmatism

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Moral status as the impermissibility of minimizing violations

Article Abstract:

The Inviolability Account which proposes the impermissibility of minimizing violations of constraints to human behavior is analyzed. An alternative account is also presented called the Independence Account. This account is based on moral status and provides a unified account of the impermissibility of minimizing violations of the doctrine of doing and allowing and the doctrine of double effect.

Human behavior

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