The Definition of Morality - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBApr 17, 2002 · In the normative sense, “morality” refers to a code of conduct that would be accepted by anyone who meets certain intellectual and volitional conditions, almost always including the condition of being rational. That a person meets these conditions is typically expressed by saying that the person counts as a moral agent. However, merely ...
Moral Character - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBJan 15, 2003 · Questions about moral character have recently come to occupy a central place in philosophical discussion. Part of the explanation for this development can be traced to the publication in 1958 of G. E. M. Anscombe’s seminal …
Moral Responsibility - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBOct 16, 2019 · Moral Responsibility. Making judgments about whether a person is morally responsible for their behavior, and holding others and ourselves responsible for actions and the consequences of actions, is a fundamental and familiar part of our moral practices and our interpersonal relationships.
Personal Identity - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBAug 20, 2002 · Personal identity deals with philosophical questions that arise about ourselves by virtue of our being people (or as lawyers and philosophers like to say, persons). This contrasts with questions about ourselves that arise by virtue of our being living things, conscious beings, moral agents, or material objects.
Virtue Ethics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBJul 18, 2003 · Virtue ethics is currently one of three major approaches in normative ethics. It may, initially, be identified as the one that emphasizes the virtues, or moral character, in contrast to the approach that emphasizes duties or rules (deontology) or that emphasizes the consequences of actions (consequentialism). Suppose it is obvious that someone ...
Plato - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBMar 20, 2004 · Plato (429?–347 B.C.E.) is, by any reckoning, one of the most dazzling writers in the Western literary tradition and one of the most penetrating, wide-ranging, and influential authors in the history of philosophy.
Aristotle’s Ethics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBMay 1, 2001 · Although Aristotle is deeply indebted to Plato’s moral philosophy, particularly Plato’s central insight that moral thinking must be integrated with our emotions and appetites, and that the preparation for such unity of character should begin with childhood education, the systematic character of Aristotle’s discussion of these themes was a ...
The Meaning of Life - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBMay 15, 2007 · The question of what (if anything) makes a person’s life meaningful is conceptually distinct from the questions of what makes a life happy or moral, although it could turn out that the best answer to the former question appeals to an answer to one of the latter questions.
Akan Philosophy of the Person - Stanford Encyclopedia of …
WEBDec 27, 2006 · Among the Akan, phrases like onye’ nipa (“he is not a person”) or onipa hun (“useless person”) indicate that an individual is a moral agent, one that is equal to all others with respect to having the potential for full personhood—albeit a potential that the individual has not realized.
Autonomy in Moral and Political Philosophy - Stanford …
WEBJul 28, 2003 · Autonomy is central in certain moral frameworks, both as a model of the moral person — the feature of the person by virtue of which she is morally obligated — and as the aspect of persons which grounds others’ obligations to her or him.