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36 relations: Affirmative action, American philosophy, Analytic philosophy, Animal rights, Bioethics, Birmingham, Alabama, Columbus, Georgia, Contemporary philosophy, Darwinism, Duke University, Emotivism, Ethical egoism, Ethical subjectivism, Ethics, Euthanasia, Letting die, List of American philosophers, Mercer University, Meta-ethics, New York University, Peter Singer, Principle of double effect, Psychological egoism, Socrates, Speciesism, Stuart Rachels, Subjectivism, The Elements of Moral Philosophy, The New England Journal of Medicine, United States, University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Miami, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Richmond, Utilitarianism, Vegetarianism.
Affirmative action
Affirmative action, also known as reservation in India and Nepal, positive action in the UK, and employment equity (in a narrower context) in Canada and South Africa, is the policy of protecting members of groups that are known to have previously suffered from discrimination.
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American philosophy
American philosophy is the activity, corpus, and tradition of philosophers affiliated with the United States.
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Analytic philosophy
Analytic philosophy (sometimes analytical philosophy) is a style of philosophy that became dominant in the Western world at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Animal rights
Animal rights is the idea in which some, or all, non-human animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives and that their most basic interests—such as the need to avoid suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings.
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Bioethics
Bioethics is the study of the ethical issues emerging from advances in biology and medicine.
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Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama and the seat of Jefferson County.
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Columbus, Georgia
Columbus is a consolidated city-county in the west central U.S. state of Georgia.
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Contemporary philosophy
Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the end of the 19th century with the professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.
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Darwinism
Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.
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Duke University
Duke University is a private, non-profit, research university located in Durham, North Carolina.
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Emotivism
Emotivism is a meta-ethical view that claims that ethical sentences do not express propositions but emotional attitudes.
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Ethical egoism
Ethical egoism is the normative ethical position that moral agents ought to do what is in their own self-interest.
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Ethical subjectivism
Ethical subjectivism is the meta-ethical view which claims that.
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Ethics
Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.
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Euthanasia
Euthanasia (from εὐθανασία; "good death": εὖ, eu; "well" or "good" – θάνατος, thanatos; "death") is the practice of intentionally ending a life to relieve pain and suffering.
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Letting die
In non-consequentialist ethical thought, there is a moral distinction between killing and letting die.
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List of American philosophers
This is a list of American philosophers; of philosophers who are either from, or spent many productive years of their lives in the United States.
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Mercer University
Mercer University is the oldest private university in Georgia with its main campus in Macon, Georgia, United States.
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Meta-ethics
Meta-ethics is the branch of ethics that seeks to understand the nature of ethical properties, statements, attitudes, and judgments.
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New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.
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Peter Singer
Peter Albert David Singer, AC (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher.
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Principle of double effect
The principle of double effect—also known as the rule of double effect; the doctrine of double effect, often abbreviated as DDE or PDE, double-effect reasoning; or simply double effect—is a set of ethical criteria which Christian philosophers, and some others, have advocated for evaluating the permissibility of acting when one's otherwise legitimate act (for example, relieving a terminally ill patient's pain) may also cause an effect one would otherwise be obliged to avoid (sedation and a slightly shortened life).
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Psychological egoism
Psychological egoism is the view that humans are always motivated by self-interest, even in what seem to be acts of altruism.
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Socrates
Socrates (Sōkrátēs,; – 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher, of the Western ethical tradition of thought.
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Speciesism
Speciesism involves the assignment of different values, rights, or special consideration to individuals solely on the basis of their species membership.
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Stuart Rachels
Stuart Rachels (born September 26, 1969) is an International Master of chess and the son of the philosopher James Rachels (1941–2003).
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Subjectivism
Subjectivism is the doctrine that "our own mental activity is the only unquestionable fact of our experience.", instead of shared or communal, and that there is no external or objective truth.
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The Elements of Moral Philosophy
The Elements of Moral Philosophy, by James Rachels and Stuart Rachels, is an ethics textbook.
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The New England Journal of Medicine
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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University of Alabama at Birmingham
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a public research university in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama.
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University of Miami
The University of Miami (informally referred to as UM, U of M, or The U) is a private, nonsectarian research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States.
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also known as UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina, or simply Carolina, is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States.
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University of Richmond
The University of Richmond (UR or U of R) is a private, nonsectarian, liberal arts college located in the city of Richmond, Virginia, with small portions of the campus extending into surrounding Henrico County.
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Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that states that the best action is the one that maximizes utility.
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Vegetarianism
Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, and the flesh of any other animal), and may also include abstention from by-products of animal slaughter.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rachels
