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+Ethics must recognize that loves are not arbitrary psychological states, but rather are directed moral attitudes which can be right or wrong. Ethical projects fundamentally attempt to unify emotions with those responses required by reason. |
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+Lewis 1 British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist, employed at both Oxford and Cambridge “the Abolition of Man” 1943. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/lewis/abolition2.htm |
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+This conception in |
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+here concerned with. |
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+Only Augustine’s focus on the ordered and hierarchal will can possibly unify the concept of personal identity. Freedom requires a division between desire and values, and only the Platonic/Augustinian renders that division coherent. |
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+Gary Watson big deal philosopher on issues of free will. “Free Agency” in Oxford Readings in Philosophy: Free Will Second Edition. Originally from Journal of Philosophy1975. |
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+Now it seems |
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+to have none. |
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+Additionally, only a focus on virtuous orientation accounts for the complexity of moral life. Ethical reasoning cannot be reduced to merely consequentialist calculations of solvency. |
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+Adams. Robert Adams: Philosopher of metaphysics, ethics and religion, has taught at top schools like Yale, Rutgers, Chapel Hill “Involuntary Sins.” The Philosophical Review, 1985. |
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+The first thing |
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+or against it. |
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+Thus, the standard is consistency with the Ordo Amoris, defined as correctly orienting our love and appreciation. |
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+C) The grounding of proper loves is fundamentally ‘inarticulable.’ The notion that we must articulate justification for basic insights like we should respect human dignity is philosophically bankrupt.' |
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+Ebels-Duggan 15. June 24, 2015. More than Words Can Say: On Inarticulacy and Normative Commitment (by Kyla Ebels-Duggan, Philosopher). NP 9/12/16. |
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+Desires aren’t alone |
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+relationships with ourselves. |
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+the consequentalist starting point is mistaken. Human activities can be divided into two types, those where the end of the activity can be completed (like cooking a meal) and those where the end is fully present in the activity itself (like friendship or those who learn for a mere love of learning). Ultimately we must maintain a focus on the later a-telic ends. |
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+Setiya 14, Kieran. The Midlife Crisis. Volume 14, no. 31 november 2014. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. |
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+It is what |
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+of this kind. |
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+I defend, resolved: Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power |
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+First, to endorse nuclear energy is to endorse those orientations which make nuclear energy necessary. If the endorsement of those conditions is morally wrong, than using nuclear energy simply subsidizes morally wrong attitudes. |
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+Parkins, John R. and Haluza, Randolph The authors are John R. Parkins, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta and Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Associate Professor of Sociology, The King’s University College, Edmonton, Alberta. -DeLay Social and Ethical Considerations of Nuclear Power Development. April 2011. http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/103237/2/StaffPaper11-01.pdf |
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+Only slightly smaller |
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+of that goal. |
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+Second, the decision to develop nuclear energy is rooted indelibly in a consumeristic orientation that instrumentalizes nature and privileges the satisfaction of greed. |
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+Loy 13. David Loy, (David Robert Loy is an American author and authorized teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan lineage of Japanese Zen Buddhism.) 4-1-2013, "The Three Nuclear Poisons," Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-loy/the-three-nuclear-poisons_b_2983534.html, accessed 9-2-2016 |
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+Bracketed for grammar |
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+What causes dukkha? |
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+that’s safely available. |
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+This contention links to the standard. Consumerism inordinately values objects over people, and possession over moral life |
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+De Souza no date. Raymond J. de Souza, xx-xx-xxxx, "John Paul II and the Problem of Consumerism," Acton Institute, http://www.acton.org/pub/religion-liberty/volume-9-number-5/john-paul-ii-and-problem-consumerism, accessed 9-10-2016. NP |
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+Bracketed for gendered language |
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+Pope John Paul |
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+“being over having.” |
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+Finally, the instrumentalization of science is grounded in a fundamental violation of the Aristotelian precepts. The right way to respond to nature requires we conform ourselves to the world, not restructuring the world to suit us, which is the logic of consumerism. |
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+Lewis 2 bracketed for gendered language. C.S. Lewis Professor at Oxford and Cambridge, author of numerous books on philosophy and Christianity. The Abolition of Man. 1943. |
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+My point may |
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+the Thou-situation. |