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Social Sciences - Philosophy / Ethik | | German term or phrase: Denkbemühung | Powerpointfolie in einem Vortrag über Kapitalmarktethik, Definition von Ethik
Ethik als die Denkbemühung, die das Moralische reflektiert
Frage nach der Möglichkeit einer guten Moral, nach der wir gut leben, gerecht handeln und vernünftig über unser Handeln und Leben entscheiden oder urteilen können |
| | | mental endeavour | Explanation:
I think I would go for this. Or 'cognitive endeavour'.
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Note added at 38 mins (2009-02-23 17:03:32 GMT)
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This translation of Spinoza's 'Ethics' used 'the mind's endeavour' and 'mental endeavour':
E3: PROP. 21. He who conceives, that the object of his love is affected pleasurably or painfully, will himself be affected pleasurably or painfully; and the one or the other emotion will be greater or less in the lover according as it is greater or less in the thing loved.
Proof.--The images of things (as we showed in E3P19) which postulate the existence of the object of love, help the mind's endeavour to conceive the said object. But pleasure postulates the existence of something feeling pleasure, so much the more in proportion as the emotion of pleasure is greater; for it is (E3P11N) a transition to a greater perfection; therefore the image of pleasure in the object of love helps the mental endeavour of the lover; that is, it affects the lover pleasurably, and so much the more, in proportion as this emotion may have been greater in the object of love. This was our first point.
Further, in so far as a thing is affected with pain, it is to that extent destroyed, the extent being in proportion to the amount of pain (E3P11N); therefore (E3P19) he who conceives, that the object of his love is affected painfully, will himself be affected painfully, in proportion as the said emotion is greater or less in the object of love. Q.E.D.
http://home.earthlink.net/~tneff/e3d.htm
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Note added at 40 mins (2009-02-23 17:05:53 GMT)
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The mental endeavour to reflect upon the moral ...
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Note added at 48 mins (2009-02-23 17:13:42 GMT)
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Ethics has traditionally been taught in the 'ivory towers' of academia. Recent develop ments and reforms in nurse education have given ethics a prominent position in most curricula. However, the vast majority of ethics teaching continues to take place in academic departments. This approach fuels the practitioner's views that nursing is a pragmatic activity whilst ethics is a cognitive endeavour; such perspectives entrench ethics firmly in the traditional gap between theory and practice. The focus of this paper presents an argument that the teaching of ethics must be versed in clinical reality if bridges are ever to be built and the theory-practice gap crossed.
http://nej.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1/1/35
http://books.google.com/books?id=E_U3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA120&lpg=P...
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Note added at 4 hrs (2009-02-23 20:40:43 GMT)
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This is about ethics being the mental endeavour to determine, to reflect upon what is moral, what might comprise morality, in my view. Any action is, indeed, mental, i.e. of the mind.
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Note added at 9 days (2009-03-04 16:56:39 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks for the points, silvia |
| Selected response from:
 Helen Shiner
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