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A proposal for a systematic approach to moral philosophy

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Caruana C.
Language. Culture. Politics. International Journal
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2022
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vol. 1
181-202
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This article gives a methodological overview of three standards against which it is possible to examine the worth of moral theories and to test their true contribution to ethics. These standards or benchmarks are requirements pertaining to metaethics, moral psychology and practical reason. The proposal is that it is only when a theory answers questions raised by these three areas of inquiry together that such a theory can be said to be a substantive theory of morality. While defending the importance of each area I also provide examples on the way to highlight such areas of relevance.
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Taylor and Vattimo on the Place of Culture in Political Practical Reasoning

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Saiz M. J.
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
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2023
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vol. 7
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issue 4
55-72
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Philosophical hermeneutics has become an unavoidable reference in the field throughout the twentieth century but has seldom been extended to draw conclusions in the area of political theory. Two intellectuals that have contributed to such a project are Charles Taylor and Gianni Vattimo, although they exhibit some important differences in key aspects of this enterprise, both at the level of the conceptual premises and at that of the prescribed policies and objectives. Here I examine these thinkers’ notion of tradition – an essential feature of hermeneutical theories – its ontological underpinnings, and the place each of them assign to it in sociopolitical decision-making, especially in the context of multicultural societies. In the end, I argue for the superiority of Taylor’s model of understanding and employing tradition in current political and moral debates.
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Sovereignty and Autonomy of the Moral Subject

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Baran k. d. M.
Horyzonty Polityki
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2019
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vol. 10
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issue 30
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Research objective: The following article aims at clarifying the relation between the notion of autonomy of the moral subject and its sovereignty. The research problem and methodology: The notions of sovereignty and autonomy attributed to the moral subject seem to be used as synonyms. Yet in the political theory the two terms seem to have slightly different meaning. Is it justified to use these notions related to the moral subject as synonyms or should they rather be distinguished? Using the descriptive-analytic and comparative method the author examines the chosen sources considered as most important reference points for the matter. The process of argumentation: The article begins with the presentation of the conception of autonomy formulated by I. Kant as the most influential for the whole modernity. This conception can have a “moral realist” and “creative anti-realist” interpretation. Afterwards it presents the contemporary interpretation of autonomy by Kristine M. Korsgaard representing the “creative anti-realist” view. This creative anti-realist interpretation is confronted with its two critiques by John E. Hare and Charles Larmore. Research results: The result of the discussion in the article is the proposition to name the modern radical creative anti-realist interpretation of autonomy the sovereignty of the moral subject and thus distinguish between the notion of sovereignty and autonomy. Conclusions, innovations and recommendations: This view of autonomy is connected with the naturalistic world view which by many modern philosophers is accepted without further questioning, whereas it is not the only possible position. We should keep questioning the so called “metaphysics of the modern world” and formulate an alternative which gives a more adequate place to the moral reasons in the world.
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Tomistyczna a Freudowska koncepcja sumienia

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Jasek G.
Logos i Ethos
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2013
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issue 2(35)
27–42
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The aim of this paper is to present and confront Thomistic and Freudian theories of conscience despite the essential differences between these two concepts. According to St. Thomas Aquinas conscience is an act of practical reason that recognizes objective moral truth in a receptive way. On the contrary, Sigmund Freud states that conscience is a part of the superego which supervises and controls human behavior taking into consideration changeable ethical norms and values. This paper is an attempt to complete Aquinas’s classical doctrine of conscience with Freud’s contemporary yet controversial psychoanalytic theory of personality, especially in the matter of pathological feeling of guilt.
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Does behavioural economics equip policy-makers with a complete (enough) picture of the human: the case of nudging

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Wincewicz-Price A.
Zarządzanie Publiczne / Public Governance
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2019
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issue 2(48)
58-73
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Objectives: The article offers a critical discussion of the policy of nudging and suggests so far unexplored evaluation criteria for behavioural policy experts and practitioners. Research design: A multi-disciplinary approach is taken here to fill out the thin anthropology of homo economicus – which is shown to inform the concept of nudging – with selected aspects of human agency which are commonly discussed in moral, political and economic philosophy. The aim of this paper is twofold: 1) to outline the conceptual shortcomings of the behavioural foundations of the nudge theory as it has been originally proposed by Thaler and Sunstein; 2) to suggest several non-behavioural aspects of human agency and action which extend the original concept of nudging and should be accounted for by policy-makers in their design of nudge-like behavioural interventions. Findings: It is claimed that mere inclusion of cognitive biases and irrationalities in the behavioural approach to policy does not sufficiently extend the artificial concept of the rational agent; in particular this narrow understanding of human failure misses important aspects of the rich concept of well-being. Implications: The use of nudges requires a comprehensive knowledge of the application context. In underspecified decision contexts, choice architects need to apply more care and critical reflection in order to prevent unintended or harmful consequences of nudging. Contribution: It is rare for pragmatically oriented public policy research to focus on the philosophical concepts that inform its theory and practice. This paper is a philosophical reflection on some key elements inherent in nudging. It helps better to understand the ambiguous design, potential and limitations of nudge policy.
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Podmiotowy aspekt wiary według Immanuela Kanta

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Sieńkowski M.
Studia Gilsoniana
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2019
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vol. 8
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issue 3
717-732
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The subjective faith, in Kant’s approach, is a way of recognizing truth. This method is justified by subjective reasons, with the simultaneous lack of objective ones. What is recognized in the way of faith as truths are the postulates of practical reason regarding the existence of God and the immortality of man. The subjectivity of faith is expressed in the fact that it is a disposition, state, principle of mind (habitus) in recognizing truth in what is to be assumed as a necessary condition of the highest good which is the object of the will. Since faith belongs to the moral order, it is sometimes called a moral faith. Its task is to determine the will on the basis of moral law. As a way of recognizing the postulates of practical reason as true, faith takes a form of judgments stating the existence of these postulates. For this reason, the subjective faith is an act of the intellect, because it is the intellect that is entitled to state truths. Kant calls the subjective faith a pure practical rational faith. This faith is the principle of the intellect whereby it states that one should accept the conditions of the highest good in view of the practical imperative to realize this good. The structure of the subjective faith, according to Kant, corresponds to its object. However, in order to recognize its object, the faith does not require any additional conditions in the form of, for example, grace, but it is entirely actualized by virtue of human natural abilities. Therefore, Kant’s rational faith is totally a natural faith.
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The Dualism of Prudence

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Załuski W., Kwarciński T.
Prakseologia
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2019
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vol. 161
271-290
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Contrary to the rather commonly held opinion that the understanding of prudence (as a certain virtue) has not changed essentially since the ancient times, it is argued in the paper that there are two not only distinct but also incompatible concepts of prudence: the modern – amoral or non-moral, and the classical (Aristotelian-Thomist) – strictly moral. The claim that these concepts are distinct and incompatible implies that ‘modern prudence’ is not part of ‘classical prudence’ but is essentially different from it: one cannot be prudent in both senses (for instance, part of modern prudence is continence/self-control, whereas classical prudence excludes continence/ self-control). Apart from the comparison of both concepts of prudence, the paper also provides an analysis of their relations with the so-called ‘prudential values’ as well as of the causes of the evolution (or rather: revolution) in the understanding of prudence which took place in modern philosophy; It is also argued that within ethics which assumes the classical understanding of prudence there is no place for what Sidgwick called the ‘dualism of practical reason’.
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W polemice z dość powszechnie przyjmowaną opinią, że rozumienie roztropności (jako pewnej cnoty) nie ulegało istotnym zmianom od czasów antycznych, w artykule broniona jest teza, że istnieją dwa, nie tylko różne, ale i niedające się ze sobą pogodzić pojęcia roztropności: nowożytne/nowoczesne – niemoralne lub pozamoralne, i klasyczne (Arystotelesowsko-Tomistyczne) – ściśle moralne. Z tezy, iż oba pojęcia są różne i niekompatybilne, wynika, iż ‘nowoczesna roztropność’ nie jest częścią ‘klasycznej’, lecz jest od niej istotnie różna: nie można być równocześnie roztropnym w obu rozumieniach (przykładowo: składową nowoczesnej roztropności jest samokontrola/opanowanie, którą wyklucza roz¬tropność klasyczna). Oprócz porównania obu pojęć roztropności artykuł dostarcza także analizy relacji między nimi i tak zwanymi ‘wartościami roztropnościowymi’, oraz analizy przyczyn ewolucji (czy raczej rewolucji) w rozumieniu roztropności, jaka nastąpiła w czasach nowożytnych. Broniona jest w nim także teza, iż w ramach etyki, która zakłada klasyczne rozumienie roztropności, nie pojawia się Sidgwickowski „dualizm rozumu praktycznego”.
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Etyczny pluralizm a wartości uniwersalne: katalogi normatywne Johna Finnisa i Marthy C. Nussbaum

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Sławiński M.
Internetowy Magazyn Filozoficzny Hybris
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2018
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vol. 41
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issue 2
20-42
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Is it possible that Nussbaum’s capability approach and Finnis’s natural law theory have anything in common? We usually do not think ethical pluralism and an account of objective good to be members of one family of theories. Nevertheless there is a set of ideas that Nussbaum and Finnis apparently, and surprisingly, share. Both authors elaborate a list of values which plays a central role in their theory. Careful examination of these lists provides us with many similarities in terms of concepts, terminology and interpretation. Finnis and Nussbaum both employ the ideas of practical reason and intuition, or self-evidence, to reject the academic requirement for theoretical proof of normative approach in morality, philosophy of law and political theory. In this way, they both seek to secure their claims to universality.
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Zur Homonymie der Rede vom Gewissen

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Wolbert W.
Studia Teologiczno-Historyczne Śląska Opolskiego
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2020
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vol. 40
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issue 1
27-53
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W publikacjach na temat „sumienia” często za mało uwzględnia się wieloznaczność tego terminu. W sensie rozumu praktycznego osąd sumienia dotyczy wszystkich ludzi według tej samej miary, jako wewnętrzny prawodawca i sędzia dotyczy on jedynie konkretnych osób, przy czym dla etyki powstaje pytanie o to, jak należy rozumieć to wewnętrzne prawodawstwo (autonomia). Czasami „sumienie” oznacza także podmiot moralności, czyli adresata osądu sumienia.
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In publications on the subject of “conscience”, too little attention is usually paid to the ambiguity of this term. As a practical reason, for example, the judgement of conscience affects all people according to the same standard, as internal legislator and judge it affects only the respective person. Here the question arises for the ethicist as to how such internal legislation (autonomy) is to be understood. Sometimes “conscience” also refers to the moral subject, the addressee of the verdict of conscience.
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In Publikationen zum Thema „Gewissen“ wird meist zu wenig die Mehrdeutigkeit dieses Terminus beachtet. Im Sinne von praktischer Vernunft etwa betrifft das Urteil des Gewissens alle Menschen nach dem gleichen Maßstab, als innerer Gesetzgeber und Richter nur die jeweilige Person, wobei sich für die Ethik die Frage stellt, wie solche innere Gesetzgebung (Autonomie) zu verstehen ist. Bisweilen bezeichnet „Gewissen“ auch das sittliche Subjekt, den Adressaten des Gewissensspruchs.
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University Studies as a Human Practice: What is Excellence for a Student?

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Chirinos M. P.
Kultura i Polityka
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2009
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issue 5
47-58
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For the Greeks, a free man lived in the polis, the place for otium and virtues. Work and active life at the oikia occupied a secondary place. Luther challenged this view: Beruf is both work and a divine call, and the contemplative life has to disappear. In the Middle Ages, the beginning of the universities and the presence of guilds developed a new approach to human work that discarded the opposition between otium and nec-otium. But this new approach did not influence philosophy. Modern philosophy, following Luther’s thesis on Beruf and the primacy he gave to active life, understood man and his work as totally rational. Within this approach, Protestantism introduced a “work ethic,” but this labor-centered society contains a strong economic basis, because work is understood as production. This article proposes a notion of work as craft, which is part of human practices and implies the attainment of different internal goods. Every work, whether manual or intellectual, also has social meaning: it appears within a community. Work cannot be defined as product. University practices –studying, teaching, doing research – can also be explained in these terms, and when this is the case, they are intrinsically related to human excellence, because they are at the basis of different virtues that make us flourish.
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Według starożytnych Greków, człowiek wolny mieszkał w polis, które było miejscem otium i cnoty. Natomiast praca i życie aktywne zajmowały drugie miejsce. Luter spróbował podważyć takie rozumienie pracy. Według niego, Beruf, czyli praca, jest to miejsce, gdzie nadprzyrodzone powołanie i życie kontemplacyjne muszą się ze sobą łączyć. W średniowieczu, w czasach powstawania uniwersytetów i cechów rzemieślniczych, pojawiło się nowe podejście do ludzkiej pracy – otium i nec-otium przestały być swoim przeciwieństwem. To nowe podejście nie wpłynęło jednak na filozofię. Filozofia nowoczesna, idąc za tezą Beruf Lutra, zgodnie z którą pierwszeństwo ma życie aktywne, często rozumiała człowieka i jego pracę jako coś zupełnie racjonalnego. Wewnątrz tej szkoły protestantyzm wprowadził „etykę pracy”. Była to jednak praca rozumiana w sposób wybitnie ekonomiczny, jej jakość mierzono wydajnością produkcyjną. Niniejszy artykuł proponuje ujęcie pracy jako rzemiosła, czyli jako części ludzkich praktyk, które zakładają osiągnięcie rozmaitych wewnętrznych dóbr. Każda praca, fizyczna i intelektualna, ma również znaczenie społeczne: pojawia się wewnątrz konkretnej wspólnoty. Praca więc nie może być zdefiniowana tylko jako produkt. Różne praktyki uniwersyteckie – uczenie się, nauczanie, prowadzenie badań – można również zdefiniować przez odniesienie się do tych dóbr. W ten sposób stają się czymś nierozłącznym z doskonałością ludzką, ponieważ są podstawą rozwoju różnych cnót.
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