Sökning: "Aristotelian ethics"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 23 avhandlingar innehållade orden Aristotelian ethics.

  1. 1. Reflective assent in basic care : A study in nursing ethics

    Författare :Kersti Malmsten; Göran Lantz; Steven Edwards; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Nursing Ethics; Communicative Ethics; Feminist Ethics; Virtue Ethics; BasicCare; Consent; Reflective Assent; Bodily Knowledge; Power; Vulnerability; Embodiment; Sensuality; Reciprocity; Interdependent Autonomy; Consolation; Human Dignity; Empowerment; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; etik; Ethics; Ethics;

    Sammanfattning : This study discusses nursing ethics in relation to basic care. The practice of basic care andrelated knowledge are often understood as tacit knowledge, a kind of familiarity-knowledgethat often has been neglected by philosophical scrutiny. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Good Parents, Better Babies : An Argument about Reproductive Technologies, Enhancement and Ethics

    Författare :Erik Malmqvist; Fredrik Svenaeus; Stellan Welin; Eric Juengst; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Aristotelian practical philosophy; bioethics; hermeneutical ethics; human enhancement; instrumentalisation; moral intuitions; non-consequentialism; parenting; philosophy of medicine; practical wisdom; reproductive technologies; Aristotelisk praktisk filosofi; bioetik; förbättringar; föräldraskap; hermeneutisk etik; icke-konsekventialism; instrumentalisering; medicinens filosofi; moraliska intuitioner; praktisk vishet; provrörsbefruktning; Ethics; Etik;

    Sammanfattning : This study is a contribution to the bioethical debate about new and possibly emerging reproductive technologies. Its point of departure is the intuition, which many people seem to share, that using such technologies to select non-disease traits – like sex and emotional stability - in yet unborn children is morally problematic, at least more so than using the technologies to avoid giving birth to children with severe genetic diseases, or attempting to shape the non-disease traits of already existing children by environmental means, like education. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Some Basic Issues in Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics

    Författare :Frans Svensson; Sven Danielsson; Erik Carlson; Julia Annas; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Philosophy; Aristotle; elitism; expressivism; neo-Aristotelian naturalism; right action; virtue ethics VE ; Filosofi; Practical Philosophy; praktisk filosofi;

    Sammanfattning : During the last three or four decades, a number of moral philosophers have moved in the direction of virtue ethics (VE). In this essay we begin by providing an outline of the main features of VE. It is argued that the basic normative requirement of VE is to aspire towards developing a morally virtuous character. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Virtue Ethics, Bioethics, and the Ownership of Biological Material

    Författare :Barbro Björkman; Sven Ove Hansson; Brad Hooker; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Biological material; ownership; rights; organ; donation; property; commodification; kidney; virtue ethics; natural rights; transplantation; transplant; social organisation; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

    Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis is to show how some ideas in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics can be interpreted and used as a productive way to approach a number of pressing issues in bioethics. Articles I-II introduce, and endorse, a social constructivist perspective on rights (as opposed to the more traditional natural rights idea). LÄS MER

  7. 5. Modrande och praxis: en feministfilosofisk undersökning : Mothering and praxis : a feminist philosopphical investigation

    Författare :Ulla M Holm; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Mothering; Ethics; Social pratice ; Praxis; Care; Habitus; Ruddick; Aristotle;

    Sammanfattning : This feminist-philosophical treatise on mothering is concerned with what mothers typically do in nursing children and caring for them. It inquires into the norms they follow and the values and virtues they embrace, not merely in this society but in all societies in which children are cared for. LÄS MER