ISSN:0264-3758    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5930.1995.tb00127.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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For many persons, ‘Holocaust‐abomination’is a fixed point on their moral compass: if anything can be evil, it was. Yet at least one of the justifications deployed by its perpetrators (the eugenics argument) invokes widely‐held values concerning human health and procreation. Hence persons endorsing many current activities based on those values (e.g. genetic counselling) have been charged with being on a morally deplorable slippery slope. This paper sketches the necessary structure of a moral position capable of consistently embracing those values without placing its occupants on that slipper

ISSN:0264-3758    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5930.1995.tb00128.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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: In many discussions, whether general or academic, the Holocaust is used as a warning of how initially small corruptions can lead to terrible consequences. In particular, it has been seen as illustrating the ‘slippery slope’from euthanasia to murder, as showing the consequences of an exaggerated respect for law, and as showing the effects of a corrupt ideology. It is argued that these three points are all somewhat inaccurate, and that 1) the ‘slippery slope’occurred much earlier, the so‐called ‘euthanasia’programme being already murder; 2) it was power rather than law that was excessively respected; and 3) it was the corruption of the sense of moral responsibility that did the real harm, rather than the establishment of any cohe

ISSN:0264-3758    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5930.1995.tb00129.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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Richard Rorty has proposed the hypothesis that those who came to the rescue of Jews in Nazi Europe are more likely to have been moved to help by parochialist sorts of consideration — sympathy for a colleague, fellow national, and the like — than they are by universalist motives having to do with the proper treatment ofhuman beings.Although inconclusive on many other points, the research on rescuer behaviour during the Holocaust embodies a consensus contrary to Rorty's hypothesis; and extensive reference to the rescuers’own testimony supports that cons

ISSN:0264-3758    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5930.1995.tb00130.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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Given the socio‐economic incentives for academic relevance, the sceptic may well challenge the academic integrity of the evolving discipline of business ethics. For, the question is, how could such an emerging field of enquiry constitute applied philosophy? I critically examine certain arguments, principally advanced by Michael Oakeshott and Stephen Clark, which might be thought to underwrite such scepticism, via a wholesale suspicion of applied ethics. Yet, I argue, philosophy can be and is properly concerned with our practical experience and actions. The significance of more general, abstract ethical questions derives, in great part, from their bearing upon our practical deliberations and actions. Moreover, reflection about the nature and role of ethical principles need not deny a role for moral judgement. Although for contingent reasons we may be right to be worried, I present an argument to show that, as a matter of principle, the sceptical challenge regarding business ethics can be refute

ISSN:0264-3758    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5930.1995.tb00131.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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Attempts to solve the Trolley Problem by means of a single principle have proved unpersuasive. Nor can the intuition about Transplant be adequately grounded in the hypothetical dissent of rational contractors. It is explained by the initial liability principle, that loss should lie where it falls unless there is sufficient reason to shift it. If we did not think we should accept misfortune in such cases and thought that minimising loss of life was sufficient reason to shift the loss we should not be according others the minimum respect and treatment we feel is their due. The intuition about Trolley is explained by the affinity of that case to the pure case where the choice is between saving many and saving fewer, where minimising misfortune is the only credible option. But these considerations are not yet enough to accommodate the cases that lie between the extremes of Trolley and Transplant. We can handle the intermediate cases by attempting to assimilate them to one or other paradigm and to one another with a sensitivity to morally relevant and irrelevant differences that seeks initially to be faithful to the values reflected by our moral intuitions. Those intuitive judgements are unlikely to survive such an examination wholly unmodified.

ISSN:0264-3758    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5930.1995.tb00132.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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The Therapy of Desire: Theory and practice in Hellenistic ethics Martha C. NussbaumEthical Issues in Nursing Geoffrey Hunt (ed)Through the Moral Maze: Searching for absolute values in a pluralistic world Robert KanePostmodern Ethics Zygmunt Bauman, 1993 Oxford, Blackwell 255pp.Subjectivity, Realism and Postmodernism Frank B. Farrell, 1994 Cambridge

ISSN:0264-3758    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5930.1995.tb00133.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY