2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Social-ethical Study of the "ethicality" concept
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17520010
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Philosophy/Ethics
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| Research Institution | Shiga University |
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Principal Investigator |
ABIKO Kazuyoshi Shiga University, Faculty of Education, Professor (20135461)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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| Keywords | the concept of "ethicality" / consequentialism / deontology / moral theology / love / intrinsic value / utilitarianism / 功利主義 |
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| Research Abstract |
Inquiring critically into the two standard fundamental types of normative-ethical theory, i.e. "deontology" and "consequentialism", and especially into "moral theological" debates in contemporary Catholicism, I introduced the concepts of "ethics of self-good" (i.e. the ethics, which is oriented to one's own being ethically good) and "ethics of good world" (i.e. the ethics, which is oriented to world's (people's) being (extra-morally) good), as a new conception of opposing fundamental types.
Needless to say, the former is self-oriented, while the latter is others-oriented. The central point of my research is to interpret this self-orientedness in a broad sense as well as the concept of self-'interest. This interpretation goes with the inquiry into the concepts "intrinsic value" and "existence value".
By way of this interpretation of self-orientedness in a broad sense (and giving the relevance to the concept of "intransitivity" in its action), the others-orientedness is to be strictly determined. As a concrete example of the determined others-orientedness, it can be named "love" (in the "genuine altruism"), to which "love of neigh-bors" in Christianity corresponds.
The concepts of "intrinsic value" and "existence value" are used as being of importance in the environmental ethics, so I, in the debate-context of "anthropocentrism vs.non-anthropocentrism", made an inquiry on the environmental ethics as an applied research.
As for the data concerning books and articles on my research, I have made them public in my website page.
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Research Products
(23 results)
