comparison of virtue ethics and utilitarianism

... Saudi, Bebee, Popeye, and Angie Trang 16In Search of Consistency: Ethics and Animals examines the discrepancy inapplied ethics between treatment of human life and treatment of allother life-forms ... both explanationsand critical analyses of basic moral theories, including utilitarianism and deontological (rights-based) ethics In Search of Consistency also offers an in-depth view of moral theory ... Trang 2In Search of Consistency: Ethics and AnimalsTrang 3Ralph Acampora, Hofstra UniversityCli fford Flynn, University of South Carolina Hilda Kean, Ruskin College, Oxford Randy Malamud, Georgia

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... plethora of tests to assess the intelligence, ethical tendencies, and sensitivities of anymals, with the hope and expectation of further exemplifyingthe special and preferable nature of human ... characteristics of neuronsand synapses are roughly the same [ T ]he brains of small whales,dolphins and porpoises are close in size to those of human beings, bothabsolutely and in relation to size of ... assessments of anymals isnot surprising.Another example of human partiality and hubris relates directly to ethics Humans have long assumed that only the human animalhas a system of ethics In spite of

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... hold that the life of a self-aware being,capable of abstract thought, of planning for the future, of complexacts of communication, and so on, is more valuable than the life of abeing without these ... work in the field of ethics and anymals inter-B Discussion Utilitarianism, based on pleasures and pains, is at the root of thesimplicity that has made Singer’s work popular, but utilitarianismentails ... store, and sell food forthese doomed pigs and chickens? What of those who provide elec-tricity to butcher shops—dam builders and maintenance crews thatsupply electricity and millions of gallons of

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... “The principle of respect for persons is built into the very structure of the moral munity and serves as the ultimate ground of the rules of duty withinthe domain of human ethics [and] serves ... the environmental ethic of Respect for Nature.6 Philosophical Principles and Standards Taylor explains the principles and standards to which both humanand environmental ethics might be held Moral ... Taylor’s theory of environmental ethics consists of a belief system,attitude, and set of rules, the first of which leads to the second, whichleads into the third The “belief-system supports and makes

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... things and wild animals of the earth of every kind.” And it was so God made the wild animals of the earth of everykind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps uponthe ground of ... waspart of a more complete and perfect individual, and the more com-plete and perfect individual was intended to rule over those less com-plete and perfect “The relation of ruler and ruled is one of ... distinctionbetween the life of humans and animals on the one hand, and the life of vegetables and insects on the other” (Christianity 80) Nonetheless, the criteria of spirit, flesh, and blood certainly

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... vision of St Julian of Norwich: He showed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut in the palm of my hand; and it was round as a ball I looked upon with eye of my understanding, and thought: ... unjust inand of itself, and Christians are called upon to abrogate propertyrights that stand against the protection of millions of innocent lives,such as the lives of foxes on fox farms and the ... amount of careneeded is not a legitimate indicator of moral standing, only oftime and attention needed to satisfy a particular set of wants • Linzey cites the covenant, noting that fish, cattle, and

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... rescue, from the terrors of birth, of old age, of sickness, of deathand rebirth, of all kinds of moral offence, of all states of woe, of thewhole cycle of birth-and-death from all these terrors ... universe and I exist together,and all things and I are one” (Chan 186) Unlike Indian philosophy,Chuang Tzu’s view of interconnectedness and unity envisions thehuman body as bits and pieces of everything ... Patterns of “alter-nating forces and phases” shape “rhythms of life” (Kleeman 67).Dao isthe final source and ground of the universe Dao runs throughthe whole universe and human life and is both

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... lives of every last one of these sixty thousand hogs in thehope of saving humans beings (“Medical”)? What line of reasoningmight protect bodies such as that of Baby Theresa or Anthony Blandthat ... understanding of degrees of relationship among organismsstill is” in spite of years of work in the field (217) Scientific justifications of human supremacy have worn thin as we learn more about mals, and ... of resources such as life-sustaining machines and expensivemedicines Every day citizens suffer because of the high cost of med-ical care, and because of the ever-widening gap between the richand

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... sense of calculation on the basis ofabstract principles) but rather knowledge and understanding in thesense of coming to appreciate the situations and the circumstances inwhich other people and ... closed and in silence) because of boredom and confinement This is equivalent to the swaying andpacing of primates, lions, tigers and bears confined in cages (Finney)There are an estimated one thousand ... forty-seven survived of the eighty-seven original members (“Donner Party”) In 1972 inChile, a plane went down, stranding a handful of individuals for sev-enty days in the Andes Mountains Most of the passengers

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... species) A handful of people were willing to expend thousandspre-of dollars, and considerable time and e ffort, to protect the lives of goats and wildflowers on the San Clemente Islands Protectionist ... moral standards and practices are tent and partial with regard to the moral standing of human beings inconsis-as opposed to the moral standing of all other life-forms. • A diversity of protectionist ... of human life? As noted in the duction, suffering and death are not the primary focus of this book. intro-We live, and we die intro-We su ffer While moral virtues support a life of compassion and

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... illumination, and values of A and g were recorded at the end of the period at 350 μmol mol During the establishment of (A, PPFD) response curves, C 950 μmol mol in a 1% O air and PPFD ... (Krause and Weis, 1984; Briantais et al, 1986) In this study, we analysed the shapes of fluorescence decrease which is related to the onset of both photochemical and non photochemical quenching, and ... only 1 d a week for the control At the end of the stress pe-riod, a twig of 2 control and of 2 or 3 drought-stressed plants was exposed for 4 h to a PPFD of 2 000 μmol m s-1 provided by

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:24

... 1Open AccessVol 13 No 4 Research Comparison of cardiac, hepatic, and renal effects of arginine vasopressin and noradrenaline during porcine fecal peritonitis: a randomized controlled trial Josef ... (exhaled NO and blood nitrate + nitrite levels) and cytokine production (interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor-α blood levels), and myocardial function (left ventricular dp/dtmax and dp/dtmin) and ... collection RG, BH, and MG were responsible for the data analysis AS and PM provided the histomorphology and immunohistochemistry findings and the analysis of these data JV and UW were responsible

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... for each of these variables was 0.94 for E/e’, 0.86 for e’and 0.83 for s ’.AnE/e’ threshold value of 14.5 offered sensitivity of 100% and specificity of 83% (Figure 1). The c statistic of 0.86 ... from the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. This study was performed at the Department of Intensive Care and The University of Queensland, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Ipswich ... approved by the Princess Alexandra Hospital Human Research Ethics Committee (project 2005/213), and the Guardianship and Administration Tribunal of Queensland (project 2006/07) and informed consent was

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... Trang 1Comparison of Adaptive Design and Group Sequential DesignZHU MING NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2004 Trang 2Comparison of Adaptive Design and Group Sequential DesignZHU ... MING(B.Sc University Of Science & Technology of China ) A THESIS SUBMITTEDFOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS AND APPLIED PROBABILITY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2004 ... form of group sequential designs And critical values of two commonlyused methods, Pocock test and O’Brien-Fleming test (O’Brien and Fleming, 1979),are given The performance of adaptive designs and

Ngày tải lên: 03/10/2015, 20:58

... versions of utilitarianism For allthese ethical views offer a certain type of justification of virtues— and,consequently, of the aims of moral education—which, we argued, isuncharacteristic of an ethics ... todistinguish an ethics of virtue from trait-utilitarianism So far as one can see, however, a virtue ethics might be distinguished fromtrait-utilitarianism in either of two ways First, an ethics of virtue ... distinction between two senses of an ethics of virtue, namely a ‘moderate’ virtue ethics which is supplementary to Kantianism and utilitarianism, and a rival ‘radical’ virtue ethics (See also Slote 1997:176.)

Ngày tải lên: 12/07/2018, 15:06

... versions of utilitarianism For allthese ethical views offer a certain type of justification of virtues— and,consequently, of the aims of moral education—which, we argued, isuncharacteristic of an ethics ... todistinguish an ethics of virtue from trait-utilitarianism So far as one can see, however, a virtue ethics might be distinguished fromtrait-utilitarianism in either of two ways First, an ethics of virtue ... distinction between two senses of an ethics of virtue, namely a ‘moderate’ virtue ethics which is supplementary to Kantianism and utilitarianism, and a rival ‘radical’ virtue ethics (See also Slote 1997:176.)

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... rate and growth rate in the FTS and in the RAS of nursery period 28 Figure 4.5: Feed conversion ratio in the FTS and in the RAS of nursery phase 29 Trang 11Comparison of water quality and production ... the development of aquaculture production, profitability and environmental sustainability (Timmons et al., 2007) The study “Comparison of water quality and production performance of barramundi ... significant increase of international production of barramundi in the last few years, mainly from Vietnam, Thailand and China Because of the differences in the consumption demand of barramundi in

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2018, 22:47

... versions of utilitarianism For allthese ethical views offer a certain type of justification of virtues— and,consequently, of the aims of moral education—which, we argued, isuncharacteristic of an ethics ... todistinguish an ethics of virtue from trait-utilitarianism So far as one can see, however, a virtue ethics might be distinguished fromtrait-utilitarianism in either of two ways First, an ethics of virtue ... distinction between two senses of an ethics of virtue, namely a ‘moderate’ virtue ethics which is supplementary to Kantianism and utilitarianism, and a rival ‘radical’ virtue ethics (See also Slote 1997:176.)

Ngày tải lên: 08/12/2018, 10:31

... versions of utilitarianism For allthese ethical views offer a certain type of justification of virtues— and,consequently, of the aims of moral education—which, we argued, isuncharacteristic of an ethics ... todistinguish an ethics of virtue from trait-utilitarianism So far as one can see, however, a virtue ethics might be distinguished fromtrait-utilitarianism in either of two ways First, an ethics of virtue ... distinction between two senses of an ethics of virtue, namely a ‘moderate’ virtue ethics which is supplementary to Kantianism and utilitarianism, and a rival ‘radical’ virtue ethics (See also Slote 1997:176.)

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2018, 14:27

... investigation and choice of dialects are presented Part II provides an overview of the tones and intonation of the Vietnamese language This lays the basis for comparing aspects of Vietnamese ... Through a comparison of the intonation of Vietnamese with that of English, an EFL instructor can anticipate potential problems for Vietnamese learners of English while learning this aspect of pronunciation ... Yuen Ren, The Non-Uniqueness of phonemic solutions of phonetic systems, Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica 4/4, 363-397, 1942 [4] A Rygaloff, Grammaire élémentaire...

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