Browsing by Subject "Ethics"
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Aristotle on Philia
(2014-08-22)Aristotle devotes two books of the Nicomachean Ethics—one fifth of the whole work—to the topic of philia, but the relation between these treatments and the rest of the work is unclear. My thesis shows the importance of ... -
Aristotle's Ethics of Goodness: A Study of the Self in Aristotle's Ethics and Politics
(2019-04-03)Aristotle's assumptions about the structure of the self and its relationship to society differ greatly from those which are prevalent in modern European philosophical discourse. This can be an obstacle to understanding ... -
BREAKING FROM TRADITION: J.M.R. LENZ’S VIEWS ON MORALITY AND THEIR EFFECTS ON HIS DRAMA
(2014-12-17)This thesis explores the unique way in which J.M.R. Lenz incorporates topics of morality into his 18th-century playwriting. It examines his various theoretical texts and how they influence his playwriting and views on ... -
Condoms and Conditions on Consent: Upholding Intentions, Understanding, and Agency for Consensual Sex
(2022-08-23)There is still widespread confusion over what exactly is necessary for consent in sexual encounters. This has serious consequences because of the severity of the rights violation that occurs if consent is invalid in this ... -
Epistemic Injustice: Understanding Across Difference
(2011-09-06)Miranda Fricker argues that powerless social groups may be subject to a unique form of injustice: hermeneutical injustice. On her account, deficiencies in the shared tools of interpretation may render the experiences of ... -
An Interest-Based Account of Police Service Dog Labour Rights
(2018-12-13)Police Service Dogs play a valuable role in promoting important public interests. However, rarely do we consider our moral obligations to them, and whether or not they are owed certain goods and protections in virtue of ... -
Interpreting Deep Learning Models
(2020-06-24)Model interpretability is a requirement in many applications in which crucial decisions are made by users relying on a model's outputs. The recent movement for “algorithmic fairness” also stipulates explainability, and ... -
KNOWLEDGE OF THE GOOD: VIRTUE IN THE MENO AND PROTAGORAS
(2013-12-13)In both the Meno and the Protagoras, Plato investigates the unity, acquisition and nature of virtue (ἀρετή). Although these dialogues appear to reach opposing conclusions—the Protagoras that virtue is knowledge and the ... -
Making Development Marketable: The Politics of Image and Representation within Consumer Driven Schemes of Development Fundraising
(2011-09-06)This project examines a new and growing form of international development fundraising, which constructs and packages development as a product of consumption in order to achieve its goals of awareness and fundraising. These ... -
The Metaphysical Origin of the Two-Fold Conception of Human Selfhood in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
(2014-08-25)This thesis aims to unearth the root of the apparent contradiction in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics between the endorsement of the life devoted to, on the one hand, the practical good, and, on the other hand, the theoretical ... -
The Moderate Approach to Advance Requests for Medical Assistance in Dying in Advanced Dementia
(2022-12-01)The purpose of this thesis is to provide an approach to advance requests for MAiD in the setting of advanced dementia. Development of such an approach will require facing important ethical questions and metaphysical ... -
Moral Groundworks for the Establishment and Analysis of Rights to 'Intellectual Property'
(2011-05-16)Historically, there have been two moral theories which have dominated the analysis of 'intellectual property': Natural law theory and Utilitarianism. The former argues that authors have an inalienable right to control the ... -
Separating Reasons
(2013-08-26)When facing a dilemma about what to do, rational agents will often encounter a conflict between what they ought to do, morally speaking, and what they most want to do. Traditionally we think that when there is a moral ... -
Social Discovery Tools: Cataloguing Meets User Convenience.
(Canadian Association for Information Science, 2011)The paper discusses (a) the ethical dimensions of creating catalogue records to reflect user convenience, (b) the relationship between culture and user convenience, and (c) how social discovery tools can facilitate the ... -
Sustainable Ethics and Delinquent Consumers: Environmentalist Discourse and the Apparatus of Ecological Crisis
(2020-08-28)This project analyses the dominant environmentalist preoccupation with “sustainable consumption” to account for the failure of this discourse to address the structural causes and genocidal harms of our environmental policies, ... -
Teleology and Awareness in Aristotle's Ethical Thought
(2012-08-23)In a famous argument at the beginning of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle argues that the function and good of the human being is the "actuality of the soul in accordance with virtue". Presenting a view critical of the ... -
VERGIL THE HESITANT HORTICULTURALIST: READING EMOTIONS FROM THE EPICUREAN GARDEN IN THE 'AENEID'
(2023-08-15)The passions of love and anger are at the root of character motivation in Vergil’s Aeneid, and often act as an essential narrative device for developing the poem’s more cosmic themes. This thesis endeavours to apply the ...