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Between Subway and Spaceship: Practical Ethics at the Outset of the Twenty‐first Century
Author(s) -
BENJAMIN MARTIN
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3527953
Subject(s) - construct (python library) , deliberation , normative ethics , epistemology , psychology , moral disengagement , moral reasoning , moral psychology , social psychology , sociology , law , philosophy , political science , politics , computer science , programming language
Moral deliberation involves a constant interplay among specific judgments, general moral values and principles, and background beliefs about the world. We may also construct broad moral theories to explain how our judgments and general commitments hang together, but there is little hope of settling on any one comprehensive moral theory.