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  2. Ethical formalism - Wikipedia

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    Ethical formalism is a type of ethical theory which defines moral judgments in terms of their logical form (e.g., as "laws" or "universal prescriptions") rather than their content (e.g., as judgments about what actions will best promote human well-being). The term also often carries critical connotations.

  3. Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development - Wikipedia

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    Arguing that his theory measures moral reasoning and not particular moral conclusions, Kohlberg insists that the form and structure of moral arguments is independent of the content of those arguments, a position he calls "formalism". [2] [9] Kohlberg's theory follows the notion that justice is the essential characteristic of moral reasoning.

  4. Formalism (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    The formalist approach, in this sense, is a continuation of aspects of classical rhetoric. Russian formalism was a twentieth century school, based in Eastern Europe, with roots in linguistic studies and also theorising on fairy tales , in which content is taken as secondary since the tale 'is' the form, the princess 'is' the fairy-tale princess.

  5. Formal ethics - Wikipedia

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    Formal ethics is a formal logical system for describing and evaluating the "form" as opposed to the "content" of ethical principles. Formal ethics was introduced by Harry J. Gensler, in part in his 1990 logic textbook Symbolic Logic: Classical and Advanced Systems, [1] but was more fully developed and justified in his 1996 book Formal Ethics.

  6. Moral psychology - Wikipedia

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    Many other moral theories, in contrast, consider the mind alone, such as Kohlberg's state theory, identity theories, virtue theories, and willpower theories. The ecological perspective has methodological implications for the study of morality: According to it, behavior needs to be studied in social groups and not only in individuals, in natural ...

  7. Contemporary ethics - Wikipedia

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    Ethics is, in general terms, the study of right and wrong. It can look descriptively at moral behaviour and judgements; it can give practical advice (normative ethics), or it can analyse and theorise about the nature of morality and ethics. [1] Contemporary study of ethics has many links with other disciplines in philosophy itself and other ...

  8. Formalism (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Rudolph Carnap defined the meaning of the adjective formal in 1934 as follows: "A theory, a rule, a definition, or the like is to be called formal when no reference is made in it either to the meaning of the symbols (for example, the words) or to the sense of the expressions (e.g. the sentences), but simply and solely to the kinds and order of the symbols from which the expressions are ...

  9. Theoretical psychology - Wikipedia

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    Theoretical psychology is concerned with theoretical and philosophical aspects of psychology.It is an interdisciplinary field with a wide scope of study.. It focuses on combining and incorporating existing and developing theories of psychology non-experimentally.