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  1. www.britannica.com › topic › ethics-philosophyEthics | Definition, History, Examples, Types, Philosophy ...

    Oct 21, 2024 · Ethics, the philosophical discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong. Its subject consists of fundamental issues of practical decision making, and its major concerns include the nature of ultimate value and the standards by which human actions can be morally evaluated.

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  2. plato.stanford.edu › entries › aristotle-ethicsAristotle’s Ethics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    May 1, 2001 · Aristotle describes ethical virtue as a “ hexis ” (“state” “condition” “disposition”)—a tendency or disposition, induced by our habits, to have appropriate feelings (1105b25–6). Defective states of character are hexeis (plural of hexis) as well, but they are tendencies to have inappropriate feelings.

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  4. link.springer.com › article › 10Quiet Resistance: The Value of Personal Defiance

    Contrary to theories that build reasons of justice into the definition of resistance, I argue that we have strong reason to consider Quiet Resistance a genuine form of resistance. Finally, I argue that the reasons in favor of engaging in Quiet Resistance help to explain its distinctive value.

    • Tamara Fakhoury
    • fakho011@umn.edu
    • 2021

  5. plato.stanford.edu › entries › autonomy-moralAutonomy in Moral and Political Philosophy (Stanford ...

    Jul 28, 2003 · Feinberg has claimed that there are at least four different meanings of “autonomy” in moral and political philosophy: the capacity to govern oneself, the actual condition of self-government, a personal ideal, and a set of rights expressive of one’s sovereignty over oneself (Feinberg 1989).

  6. link.springer.com › article › 10Ethics of Resistance in Organisations: A Conceptual Proposal

    Jul 5, 2017 · This study suggests a conceptual proposal to analyse the ethics of resistance in organisations, drawing on Foucault’s practising self as a refusal and Schaffer’s ethics of freedom in opposition to the legitimacy of managerial control and the ethics of compliance.

    • Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar, Fahreen Alamgir
    • 2018

  7. plato.stanford.edu › entries › moral-theoryMoral Theory - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Jun 27, 2022 · 1.2 Contrasts Between Morality and Other Normative Domains 1.2.1 Morality and Ethics. Ethics is generally understood to be the study of “living well as a human being”. This is the topic of works such as Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, in which the aim of human beings is to exemplify human excellence of character. The sense in which we ...

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  9. ojs.lib.uwo.ca › index › fpqThe Morality of Resisting Oppression - uwo.ca

    The paper concludes that we better respect and defend women’s rights when first we understand them as having, at best, defeasible moral reasons to oppose their oppression; and second, ensure that we make adequate allowance for a woman’s interpretative right to choose how to respond to her oppressive circumstances.