Mr. Geach, her husband and sometime collaborator, a professor of philosophy at the University of Birmingham and University of Leeds, put it this way: "She thought that a theory of ethics without a theory of mind was bound to be bogus".
As early as 1862, he wrote to Dakyns that he was "revolving a Theory of Ethics" and working on "a reconciliation between the moral sense and utilitarian theories" (Sidgwick and Sidgwick, 1906: 75).
From this followed a theory of ethics according to which human beings are the most morally valuable things, so that the worth of ideals and actions should be judged in relation to the meanings and impact they have for and on individual human beings.
Morton uses Marina Zurkow's Mesocosm (Wink, TX) (2012 as an example of art that alters our perception of "Nature". Morton suggests that hyperobjects, massively distributed in time and space, encourage us to develop a theory of ethics that transcends usual theories of self-interest.
Buchanan, A, Toward a theory of the ethics of bureaucratic organizations, Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 6 no. 4 (1996), pp. 438-440, CUPbridge University Press (CUP), [doi] [abs].
Buchanan, A, Toward a theory of the ethics of bureaucratic organizations, Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 6 no. 4 (January , 1996, pp. 438-440, CUPbridge University Press (CUP), [doi] [abs].
German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has proposed a theory of discourse ethics that he claims is a descendant of Kantian ethics.
It proposes the concept of 'gestalt' as the basis for a theory of engineering ethics.
Buchanan, A, Toward a Theory of Secession, Ethics, vol. 101 no. 2 (1991), pp. 322-342, University of Chicago Press, [doi].
Buchanan, A, Toward a Theory of Secession, Ethics, vol. 101 no. 2 (January , 1991, pp. 322-342, University of Chicago Press, [doi].
While Ehrenfels' early work on value theory and ethics remained for the most part within the domain now called "metaethics", he did make an effort in his later work to develop a theory of normative ethics.
