• Virtues (in the Aristotelian tradition) are qualities that humans alone bring to the world — and therefore explain, in some sense, why we [...]

  Virtue ethics

  January 1, 2018
• The autonomy principle says that you shouldn’t interfere with freely chosen, ethical actions of other people without informed or implied [...]

  Autonomy principle

  January 1, 2018
• The utilitarian principle says your action is ethical only if you can rationally believe that it maximizes the total expected utility of everyone [...]

  Utilitarian principle

  January 1, 2018
• The generalization principle  requires that the reasons for your action be consistent with the assumption that everyone with the same [...]

  Generalization principle

  January 1, 2018