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1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

CONFIDENCE AND CRITIQUE ; MORAL OBJECTIVITY AND RELATIVITY OF IN VIRTUE ETHICS

Research Project

Project/Area Number 07610033
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 倫理学
Research InstitutionIwate University

Principal Investigator

USAMI Kosei  IWATE UNIVERSITY,FACULTY OF EDUCATION,ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 教育学部, 助教授 (30183750)

Project Period (FY) 1995 – 1996
KeywordsVirtue / Moral Realism / Communitarianism / Deontology / Utilitarianism / Kant / Cognitive response / Liberalism
Research Abstract

Deontological ethics and utilitarianism are of typical modern concern. From a viewpoint of universal rationality, both intended to establish some principle that controls moral conducts. The principles which modern ethics have deduced, however, brought about many aspects of interminable disagreements on practical moral issues. Furthermore they proved scarcely any effectiveness on cognitive or conductive response required on any specific and practical situation. For that reason, virtue ethics which estimates tradition, custom and concreteness as more important than principle in given moral conducts, has lately attracted our concern. Restoration of virtue ethics, however, might cause the uncritical and obstinate conservatism. How can it be possible, then, after so-called modern enlightenment, to argue on the possibility of the virtue ethics?
Relativity and objectivity of morality, then, is our current concern ; which is argued along the points as follows :
1.The loss of human "telos" (i.e.man's true end or essential nature) replaced the ancient virtues with the modern ethics. The present research shows that, following Kant, under such circumstances, virtues must be also contained by deontological ethics.
2.Against the criticism which claims that such a "thin concepts" as "happiness" or "right" are too abstract to solve any practical problem, estimated possibilities are considered as to relocating modern ethics on the stage of (internal) realism as transcendental idealism, in order to integrate virtue ethics and liberalism.
3.Internal realism bound by a viewpoint can go beyond its limitation and criticize itself, not by any external point of view, but by means of plural aspects that (within a person) can be obtained from different contexts brought by varieties of communities in which a person participate.

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All Publications (8 results)

  • [Publications] 宇佐見 公生: "徳の倫理と道徳的実在論" 岩手大学教育学部附属教育実践研究指導センター研究紀要. 5号. 135-147 (1995)

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  • [Publications] 宇佐見 公生: "超越論的観念論における他者-理性の亀裂" 岩手大学教育学部研究年報. 55巻1号. 23-38 (1995)

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  • [Publications] 宇佐見 公生: "心の実在と他人の人格-人格の社会性と理念性" 岩手大学文化論叢. 3輯. 137-151 (1995)

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  • [Publications] 宇佐見 公生: "道徳における内的実在論と自由" 『人間・文化・社会』(岩手大学人文社会科学部地域基礎講座). 57-73 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Kosei Usami: "The Virtues and Moral Realism" The Journal of the Center for Educational Research and Practice. No.6. 135-147 (1995)

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  • [Publications] Kosei Usami: "Transcendental Idealism and the Others ; Crack in Reason" The Annual Report of The Faculty of Education Iwate University. Vol.56 No.1. 23-38 (1995)

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  • [Publications] Kosei Usami: "Reality of Mind and Person of Others ; Social and Ideal Properties of Person" Iwate University Bunka-Ronso. No.3. 137-151 (1995)

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  • [Publications] Kosei Usami: "Internal Realism, Morality and Freedom" Man, Culture, Society. 57-73 (1997)

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