Six Songs, Op. 22 (1934)

Paton, John Glenn; Zemlinsky, Alexander; Morgenstern, J.; Goethe,; George, .; Kalidasa,; Amaru,; Hughes, Victoria; McKay,; Wright, Maurice

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“…Furthermore, it may seem rather non-Kantian in that the most plausible grounds for wanting to maintain useful institutions are that the consequences of such a policy are desirable, but, if so, that would make the principle appealed to turn out to be a heteronomous one and hence, by Kant's doctrines, not a moral one at all. Worst of all, the possibility that applying the Categorical Imperative could actually lead to a situation in which to do an action and to refrain from doing it could both, by the very same maxim, be classed as right-and thereby put people into conflict with one another-is incompatible with the Kingdom of Ends account of the Categorical Imperative with its vision of moral harmony [6].…”

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Journalists: a moral law unto themselves?

Harris

1990

J Applied Philosophy

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Journalists often take themselves as having a moral duty to protect their sources. If the sources in question leak information from government departments, government ministers will consider themselves as having the moral right to demand that the journalists disclose the identity of those sources. This creates conflicts of value between what journalists and ministers consider to be right. It is argued not only that traditional moral theories cannot resolve such moral conflicts, but that they are in a sense a good thing. A world in which the conflicts occur may be considered to be better than one in which they are prevented from occurring, for one can expect to have both effective journalism and effective government only in the former. The most important consequence of this view is that it makes the professional ethics of journalism (and, by implication, those of other professions) into something more than the mere application of universal moral rules to the various situations in which those who work in the profession are liable to find themselves.

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Section: Kantian Ethicsmentioning

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Journalists: a moral law unto themselves?

Harris

1990

J Applied Philosophy

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Six Songs, Op. 22 (1934)

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Journalists: a moral law unto themselves?

Journalists: a moral law unto themselves?

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