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Millgram, Elijah | Hume on practical reasoning (Treatise 463-469) | The claim that " 'is' does not entail 'ought'" is so closely associated with Hume that it has been called 'Hume's Law'.1 The interpretation of the passage in Hume's Treatise of Human Nature that is the locus classicus of the claim is controversial. But the passage is preceded by three main bodies ... | Morality; Human Nature; Deductive | 1997 |
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Chatterjee, Deen | Moral distance: introduction | This issue of The Monist is devoted to the question of how we should gauge the moral significance of distance. "Moral distance," by analogy with "aesthetic distance," may signify degrees of moral indifference, but that is not the theme we are concerned with here. The problem of distance in mora... | Distance; Boundaries; Morality | 2003 |
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Flynn, John J. | Reaganomics and antitrust enforcement: a jurisprudential critique | There are few judges, psychoanalysts or economists today who do not begin a consideration of their typical problems with some formula designed to cause all moral problems to disappear and to produce an issue purified for the procedure of positive empirical science. But the ideals have generally reti... | Ethics; Morality; Antitrust Law | 1983 |
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White, Nicholas P. | Review of Nancy Sherman, "Making a Necessity of Virtue | Making a Necessity of Virtue is about the ethics of Aristotle and Kant. "Specifically," according to the first chapter, it "is about the role of emotions and practical reason in each theorist's account of virtue," though with "greater attention to the place of emotions in moral character". This desc... | Virtue; Ethics; Reason; Emotions; Morality | 2000 |