Moral Value

AKA: Ethical Value.
Context:
- It can range from being a Good Moral Assessment to being a Negative Moral Assessment.
- It can range from (typically) being a Human Moral Value to being an AGI Moral Value.
- It can (typically) be the outcome of a Moral Judgment.
Example(s):
- Good of Society.
- Equity.
- Sustainability.
- …
Counter-Example(s):
- an Economic Value.
- an Epistemic Value.
- an Aesthetic Value.
See: Human Happiness, Beauty, Utility.

References

http://noam-chomsky.tumblr.com/post/17547861328/my-own-concern-is-primarily-the-terror-and
- QUOTE: My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for a much more important reason than that; namely, I can do something about it. So even if the U.S. was responsible for 2 percent of the violence in the world instead of the majority of it, it would be that 2 percent I would be primarily responsible for. And that is a simple ethical judgment. That is, the ethical value of one’s actions depends on their anticipated and predictable consequences. It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century. ...

(Uslaner, 2008) ⇒ Eric M. Uslaner. (2008). “Trust as a moral value." The handbook of social capital.
- QUOTE: Trust is a multifacted concept. Mostly it is conceived as a "rational" response to trustworthy behavior by others. I offer an argument and evidence that there is another and more important variant of trust, moralistic (generalized) trust. I show that moralistic trust is faith in people we don't know and that it does not depend upon our life experiences. It is this type of trust that binds us to others. … The roots and consequences of trust are precisely what we would expect of a moral value. Values should be stable over time–and not dependent upon day-to-day experiences. This is precisely what I find for trust. Trust matters for the sorts of things that bond us to others without expectations of reciprocity–giving to charity, volunteering time, tolerance of minorities, and promoting policies that redistribute resources from the rich to the poor.

(Cronqvist, 2004) ⇒ Agneta Cronqvist, Töres Theorell, Tom Burns, and Kim Lützén. (2004). “Caring about-caring for: Moral obligations and work responsibilities in intensive care nursing." Nursing ethics 11.
- QUOTE: … Within this perspective it is understood that nursing/caring is a moral enterprise or a moral value.1,3–5,11 Caring is a relational con- cept and involves caring about someone.3,5 The way in which this relationship is described and conceptualized as a 'dispositional notion of ...

(Tronto, 1993) ⇒ Joan C. Tronto. (1993). “Moral boundaries: A political argument for an ethic of care." Psychology Press
- QUOTE: ...I argue that care can serve as both a moral value and as a basis for the political achievement of a good society. The second moral boundary i shall describe is the "moral point of view" boundary....