Global Virtue Ethics Review articles from April 2004

Global Virtue Ethics Review archives from April 2004

What is ethics? An answer from a Voegelinian-Lonerganian perspective.(Bernard Lonergan, Eric Voegelin)
April 1, 2004... Abstract The 20th century produced a number of important thinkers, among them, Bernard Lonergan and Eric Voegelin. Condensing the significant ideas of each of them is an impossible task however, this paper develops several of their ideas....

Advance directives and the problem of personal identity (1).
April 1, 2004... Abstract Two objections against the authority of advance directives for some incompetent persons are advanced in this paper. First, that under a psychological continuity account of personal identity, the authority of existing advance...

The absoluteness of intrinsic value. A critique of the 'principle of universality.'.
April 1, 2004... Abstract Moore's account of the relation between his theory of intrinsic value as an unnatural, etc. property, and the so-called 'principle of universality' seems to be considered quite uncontroversial. In opposition with this assumption,...

Scandal Proof: Do Ethics Laws Make Government Ethical?(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Book Review Scandal Proof: Do Ethics Laws Make Government Ethical? G. Calvin Mackenzie 2002, the Brookings Institute, Washington, DC. Calvin Mackenzie's book, Scandal Proof: Do Ethics Laws Make Government Ethical?, is a concise, yet...

Implications of historical progress.
April 1, 2004... Abstract Often, on the ideological battlefield of world politics, one side identifies its agenda as progress and the opposition as regress. Citing history as its vindication with the claim that one is on the 'right side' of history and the...

Editor's introduction.
April 1, 2004... In recent years there has been a significant increase in interest in applied ethics, both within the academy and outside it. Moreover, this interest in applied ethics has led many persons outside the philosophical community to recognize that...

Refusal of treatment, suicide intervention and autonomy.
April 1, 2004... Abstract Respect for autonomy grounds a patient's right to refuse medical treatment even when the resulting consequence will be death of the patient. This, in policy, guarantees a patient the right to commit suicide by refusing treatment....