Wide Reflective Equilibrium and Theory Acceptance in Ethics

Daniels, Norman

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“…20 Neither the principles nor the judgments are prior; each is subject to adjustment by reference to the other. In the case of wide reflective equilibrium, so called by Daniels (1979), we bring in pertinent science, settled beliefs about human nature, and other facts as background. 21 Wide reflective equilibrium seems close to AristotleÕs views.…”

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Socratic Questions and Aristotelian Answers: A Virtue-Based Approach to Business Ethics

Hartman

2007

J Bus Ethics

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Socratic Questions and Aristotelian Answers: A Virtue-Based Approach to Business Ethics

Hartman

2007

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“…This is the fault of the philosophical literature in question, not of the notion of 'wide reflective equilibrium' as such (c.f. Daniels 1979). An opposite defect might be thought to have affected certain manifestations of nineteenth and twentieth Century European philosophy, including some of the work growing out of the so-called 'Frankfurt School ' (c.f.…”

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Methods of ethics and the descent of man: Darwin and Sidgwick on ethics and evolution

Lillehammer

2010

Biol Philos

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Darwin's treatment of morality in The Descent of Man has generated a wide variety of responses among moral philosophers. Among these is the dismissal of evolution as irrelevant to ethics by Darwin's contemporary Henry Sidgwick; the last, and arguably the greatest, of the Nineteenth Century British Utilitarians. This paper offers a re-examination of Sidgwick's response to evolutionary considerations as irrelevant to ethics and the absence of any engagement with Darwin's work in Sidgwick's main ethical treatise, The Methods of Ethics. This assessment of Sidgwick's response to Darwin's work is shown to have significance for a number of ongoing controversies in contemporary metaethics.

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“…We would suggest that ethical theories have a different and in a sense broader role than ethical intuitions or emotions. The role we see for ethical theories is inspired by Normal Daniels' discussion of wide reflective equilibrium (Daniels, 1979(Daniels, , 1996.…”

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The Ethical Cycle

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Royakkers

2006

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Arriving at a moral judgment is not a straightforward or linear process in which ethical theories are simply applied to cases. Instead it is a process in which the formulation of the moral problem, the formulation of possible â€œsolutionsâ€\x9D, and the ethical judging of these solutions go hand in hand. This messy character of moral problems, however, does not rule out a systematic approach. In this article, we describe a systematic approach to problem solving that does justice to the complex nature of moral problems and ethical judgment: the ethical cycle. Our goal is to provide a structured and disciplined method of addressing moral problems, which helps to guide a sound analysis of these problems. We will illustrate the usefulness of this cycle with an example. Further, we will discuss two general issues in applied ethics in relation to the proposed ethical cycle: the role of ethical theories and the place of individual judgment versus collective deliberation. Copyright Springer 2007ethics, engineering, moral problems, designing, deliberation,

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Wide Reflective Equilibrium and Theory Acceptance in Ethics

Cited by 847 publications

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Socratic Questions and Aristotelian Answers: A Virtue-Based Approach to Business Ethics

Socratic Questions and Aristotelian Answers: A Virtue-Based Approach to Business Ethics

Methods of ethics and the descent of man: Darwin and Sidgwick on ethics and evolution

The Ethical Cycle

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