Papers by Carmen Dobre
Abstract: This paper analyzes some influential ideas in virtue ethics. Alasdair MacIntyre, in his... more Abstract: This paper analyzes some influential ideas in virtue ethics. Alasdair MacIntyre, in his work After Virtue, and Elizabeth Anscombe, in his controversial essay “Modern Moral Philosophy”, brought fresh ideas into moral philosophy of their time changing views on contemporary morality. They strongly influenced moral philosophers who then followed their ideas. The two philosophers criticized contemporary moral philosophies such as emotivism, utilitarianism, deontology. Elizabeth Anscombe criticized also the use of the concepts of duty and moral obligation in the absence of God as the context God had no place. For solving the quests of modern morality, both MacIntyre and Anscombe proposed that the only solution was the returning to ancient Aristotelian virtues
Filosofiya-Philosophy
Aristotle defined the ethical and intellectual virtues which are recognized as fundamental even t... more Aristotle defined the ethical and intellectual virtues which are recognized as fundamental even today. Contemporary virtue ethics still takes into account Aristotelian virtues. The modern moral philosophers have tried to find new ethical values in a society in which religions are in decline and the old values lost their meaning. The starting point of their research has been Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics” which has remained the most important work in ethics influencing the philosophical thinking until nowadays. This paper seeks to explain the actual importance of the cardinal Aristotelian virtues and how they are seen today.
Foundationalism, Coherentism and Intellectual Virtues, 2020
In this paper, two different views regarding knowledge, foundationalism and coherentism are compa... more In this paper, two different views regarding knowledge, foundationalism and coherentism are compared. An analogy with ethics suggests that a justification that matters for knowledge could be analogous to an objective justification by consequences that we find in ethics.
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche criticized the values and the morality of his age, off... more The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche criticized the values and the morality of his age, offering a new perspective on the moral life and new answers to old questions for his contemporary society his ideas influencing all the generations of thinkers after him being still actual today. He encouraged people to question the morality in the light of the decline of religion which had begun to be obvious in the life of society and in the context of the raising of natural sciences, seeking to destabilize the values of the contemporary politics and culture, opening a new path for the future philosophers in order to revive what he considered a degenerate culture. This paper is intended to present Nietzsche's new ideas concerning the moral values that have influenced the thinking of the following generations until nowadays.
Thesis Chapters by Carmen Dobre
Values in Nietzsche's Thinking, 2016
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche criticized the values and the morality of his age, off... more The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche criticized the values and the morality of his age, offering a new perspective on the moral life and new answers to old questions for his contemporary society his ideas influencing all the generations of thinkers after him being still actual today. He encouraged people to question the morality in the light of the decline of religion which had begun to be obvious in the life of society and in the context of the raising of natural sciences, seeking to destabilize the values of the contemporary politics and culture, opening a new path for the future philosophers in order to revive what he considered a degenerate culture. This paper is intended to present Nietzsche's new ideas concerning the moral values that have influenced the thinking of the following generations until nowadays.
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