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Klemens Szaniawski, a Polish philosopher, was deeply involved, among other areas of inquiry, in decision theory and its relationships with human action theory known as praxiology. Elements of his decision-theoretical analysis are presented in the paper.
Ethics is intended to help make decisions. It does this by pointing to theories that provide an argument for the recommended procedure. One can ask whether the maxim of „do unto others as you would have done unto you” refers to any act or is a hypernorm providing guidelines for other decisions. The practice of individual behavior is institutionally nested, as is the status of the norm „do not impose...
This article is an attempt to analyse the phenomenon of “ethical dilemma.” One assumes that an ethical dilemma consists of conflicts both in values and normative systems. The essence of an ethical dilemma is the choice between two positive possibilities. A particular feature of ethical dilemmas is that of “double moral evaluation:” It is both a positive – as an affirmation of a choice of one good...
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