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Sep 16, 2022 · According to Ross, the weight of the duty is also important when two moral duties appear to conflict. The ethical theory of W.D. Ross (1877-1971) has many strengths. First, it reflects some of our ...
Sep 15, 2024 · This led to a more nuanced understanding of objectivity in psychology – one that acknowledges the inherent subjectivity of human experience while still striving for rigorous, replicable methods of study. In modern psychology, objectivity is seen as a guiding principle rather than an absolute state. It’s about minimizing bias, maximizing ...
The psychology of meta-ethics: Exploring objectivism q Geoffrey P. Goodwin *, John M. Darley Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA Received 26 October 2006; revised 29 May 2007; accepted 22 June 2007 Abstract How do lay individuals think about the objectivity of their ethical beliefs? Do they regard
Mar 31, 2017 · How should we understand the notion of moral objectivity? Metaethical positions that vindicate morality’s objective appearance are often associated with moral realism. On a realist construal, moral objectivity is understood in terms of mind-, stance-, or attitude-independence. But realism is not the only game in town for moral objectivists. On an antirealist construal, morality’s objective ...
- Jeroen Hopster
- j.k.g.hopster@uu.nl
- 2017
Groundings which emphasize the religious, pragmatic, and self-identity underpinnings of ethical belief each independently predicted greater ethical objectivity. Experiment 2 replicated and extended these findings with a refined measure of ethical objectivism. Experiment 3 demonstrated the robustness of the religious grounding of ethics, and ...
- Geoffrey P. Goodwin, John M. Darley
- 2008
Mar 1, 2008 · Experiment 1 showed that individuals tend to regard ethical statements as clearly more objective than social conventions and tastes, and almost as objective as scientific facts. Yet, there was considerable variation in objectivism, both across different ethical statements, and across individuals. The extent to which individuals treat ethical ...
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It is not as if avoiding the vices and embracing the virtues they mirror—patience, charity, diligence, humility, chastity, kindness, temperance—is in any sense acting objectively. Objectivity does not seem an especially appropriate way of thinking about morality. One might argue about whether pride is really a vice, for example, but in ...
