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The novel is about Dr. Tyko Gabriel Glas who is a respected physician in Stockholm. The story is told in the form of a diary and follows Doctor Glas as he struggles with depression. The antagonist is Reverend Gregorius, a morally corrupt clergyman. Gregorius' beautiful young wife confides in Dr. Glas that her sex life is making her miserable ...
[1] [2] Deciding what (if anything) counts as "morally obligatory" is a principal concern of ethics. Philosophers refer to people who have moral responsibility for an action as " moral agents ". Agents have the capability to reflect upon their situation, to form intentions about how they will act, and then to carry out that action.
3 Post-Conventional Social contract orientation: Everyone has a right to choose life, regardless of the law. The scientist has a right to fair compensation. Even if his wife is sick, it does not make his actions right. Universal human ethics: Saving a human life is a more fundamental value than the property rights of another person.
[4] [1] Another well-known example comes from Jean-Paul Sartre, who describes the situation of one of his students during the German occupation of France. This student faced the choice of either fighting to liberate his country from the Germans or staying with and caring for his mother, for whom he was the only consolation left after the death ...
[1] [2] [3] It is "the process of arousing social concern over an issue", [4] usually perpetuated by moral entrepreneurs and mass media coverage, and exacerbated by politicians and lawmakers. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] Moral panic can give rise to new laws aimed at controlling the community.
In criminal law, culpability, or being culpable, is a measure of the degree to which an agent, such as a person, can be held morally or legally responsible for action and inaction. It has been noted that the word, culpability, "ordinarily has normative force, for in nonlegal English, a person is culpable only if he is justly to blame for his ...
Thus, from a consequentialist standpoint, a morally right act (including omission from acting) is one that will produce a good outcome. Consequentialism, along with eudaimonism , falls under the broader category of teleological ethics , a group of views which claim that the moral value of any act consists in its tendency to produce things of ...
[1] [2] The targeted group is viewed as undeserving of morally mandated rights and protections. [2] When conflict between groups escalates, the in-group/out-group bias between the groups heightens. Severe violence between groups can be either the antecedent or the outcome of moral exclusion.