WH Walsh wrote the book Hegelian Ethics in 1969 in an attempt to make clear the philosophy and writings of a philosopher that was neglected by other philosophers for more than a generation. ... Having said that, Hegel does have a very Kantian like way of going about ethics. ... Hegel saw philosophy as taking stock of what has been achieved and lay bare its theoretical foundations. ... Walsh describes Kant as giving the term ethics a restricted meaning. Kant saw ethics as concerning the motives and intentions of individual moral agents. ...

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Title:medical ethics Description: about medical ethics Body: Medical ethics, the implementation of ethics towards medicine is a necessary tool for enumerating the various ethical and moral propositions and clarifying their positions. "... Medical ethics is simply ethics applied to a particular area of our lives... medicine... ... Medical ethics has two roles, one is that of sensitizing. "... ... Ayres The Central Quenstions of Philosophy pp. 226). ... Ayres The Central Questions of Philosophy pp 266) However, this does not mean that all moral standpoints are to regarded as equal to one anot...

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It also aims to uncover those sources of wisdom and knowledge within the Western history of philosophy and theology, which might be helpful in developing new perspectives for an appropriate response to this crisis. ... A second and decisive development, by which nature is secularised, neutralised, is found at the beginning of the hegemony of the conceptual-nominalistic tradition in Western philosophy and theology. ... Although Ockham's doctrine is a prelude to the typically modern adage of the 'verum et factum convertuntur', the birthplace of modern science is Nicholas Cusan...

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It sets politics as an autonomous sphere of action and understanding apart from other spheres, such as economics (understood in terms of interest defined as wealth), ethics, aesthetics, or religion. ... It follows that while ethics in the abstract judges the moral qualities of motives, political theory must judge the political qualities of intellect, will, and action. ...

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The discourse on moral truth then, as it is presented in the following reading, centers around relativism and its varied forms, rebuttals to the relativist mindset, and the theories of Kantian ethics and Utilitarianism which oppose the relativist agenda. ... Relativism attempts to deny this notion which is supported by the views put forth by Kantian ethics among others which will be reviewed shortly. Nevertheless, however modern philosophy attempts to thwart the principals of relativism it endures. ...

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Immanual Kant (1724-1804) was a  German philosopher who is widely considered to be a central figure of  modern philosophy. ... Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher who wrote several critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science. ... Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on  political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan  established  the social contract  theory, which turned out to be the foundation of later Western political philosophy. ...

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