16, No. 2, Apr., 1991 Ethical Decision Making by Individuals i ... model containing a new set of variables called moral intensity; (b) using concepts, theory, and evidence derived largely from social ...

Here are some of the arguments that have been put forward: all war is unjust and has no place in any ethical theory morality must always oppose deliberate violence just war ideas tend to make ...

After studying various moral theories, one is bound to be left wondering what to believe. In this selection from The Elements of Moral Philosophy, James Rachels sketches what he thinks would be a ...

Examples of natural laws exist in fields from ... Because natural law as an ethical theory can be understood to be an extension of scientific and rational inquiry into how the world works, the ...

Philosophers nowadays tend to divide ethical theories into three areas: metaethics, normative ethics and applied ethics. Meta-ethics deals with the nature of moral judgement. It looks at the ...