Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University / The purpose of this thesis is to examine in detail main problems that are encountered in W. D. Ross's ethical theory. The major sources of information for Ross's ethical theory are the two volumes, The Right and the Good and Foundations of Ethics. Problems in Ross's ethical theory that are considered are the following: (1) methodology, (2) critical ethics, (3) normative ethics, and (4) free-will vs. determinism. Ross's basic approach to the study of ethics is the phenomenological approach in terms of the content of the moral consciousness. By moral consciousness Ross means the existence of a large body of beliefs and convictions (common to all men) to the effect that there are certain acts that ought to be done and certain things that ought. to be brought into existence. Ross, however, also relies heavily upon the moral consciousness of the "thoughtful" and "well-educated" and "best" people. Further, at other times he appeals to his own deepest ethical convictions. Ross's confidence in the reports of the moral consciousness and his seeming indifference to the actual source of these reports partially rests upon his beliefs (1) that there is a common moral consciousness of the entire human family; (2) that obligations and values are objective; and (3) that the human family is steadily progressing toward discovery of and agreement upon these objective obligations and values. It seems questionable, however, whether this third contention is true. The many existing ethical disagreements between individuals, nations, and races argue,· strongly against its establishment. Ross himself holds that, in the final analysis, one must use his own judgment as to what is right and wrong, good and bad. His ultimate approach thus becomes the critical study of his own (and of others' like him in background and temperament) moral consciousness. [TRUNCATED]

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 440-467).

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This thesis is about the life of David McCord and the contribution he made to Canadian public memory as founder of the McCord Museum of National History. In his McGilI-sponsored museum, founded in 1921, McCord sought to promote a myth of Canadian origins with narration provided by the objects of his personal collection. Integral to this history was the story of the McCord family, their arrival on this continent and their rise to social prominence. In McCord's version of Canadian history, family and personal myth were conflated with that of nation. Viewed through the prism of his collecting and museum work, McCord's life does not easily fit the Carlylean frame adopted by most biographers. In Canadian biographical writing by historians, the 'truth' about a person's life is revealed by following the modernist recipe of painstakingly recreating a detailed chronology of the individual's life. The approach followed here is an important departure from traditional political biography. Entry into McCord's life does not occur at his biological birth date, but at the moment of his own self-fashioned 'birthing', with the opening of the museum realized near the end of his life. In this biographical strategy, McCord's museum acts as a theatre of memory, where fragments of his life story are reassembled to create a narrative of national origins and of personal redemption. In his selection of objects and their display, and in the creation of an archive and the museum itself, McCord left a very elaborate and lasting record of his response to a set of changes associated with industrialization, a process which, in his lifetime, radically transformed the Montreal of his parents' generation. This thesis traces the connection between the creation of a public museum, founded to promote a collective vision of the Canadian past, and the private world of one collector whose collecting practice was defined as much by his own desire to remember and be remembered as it was by the kinds of objects he collected. What makes David McCord's life and collection so compelling is the opportunity it provides from understanding national history from the intimate perspective of one individual.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington. / Bibliography: ℓ. 347-413.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1991. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [366]-374).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1929. / Includes index and bibliography: 73-78 p.