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2011
According to Sidgwick, ethical judgments are, primarily, judgments about the right actions, or actions which ought to be done. Therefore, it is essential for students of ethics to understand the meanings of the terms ‘right’ and ‘ought’. At the same time, the notion of ‘good’ also plays an important role in ethics. Moral actions are often called ‘good’
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According to Sidgwick, ethical judgments are, primarily, judgments about the right actions, or actions which ought to be done. Therefore, it is essential for students of ethics to understand the meanings of the terms ‘right’ and ‘ought’. At the same time, the notion of ‘good’ also plays an important role in ethics. Moral actions are often called ‘good’
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A Meta-Ethics for Professional Morality
Ethics, 1978In the ordinary course of events, we expect to hear people give advice or voice positions on issues by virtue of their professional capacity. As philosophers, we expect this in the case of 'technical hypotheticals' ("In my professional capacity as an engineer, I advise that, if you want that bridge to stand up, you will need more struts.") Somewhat ...
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Meta-Ethics and Meta-Aesthetics
2023Abstract Metaethics is a live and flourishing subdiscipline of ethics, and meta-aesthetics flourishes in aesthetics, but only infrequently under that title. Still, in the long history of aesthetics and the philosophy of art, a great many thinkers have delved into meta-aesthetic issues.
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Street’s Meta-Ethical Constructivism
2017This chapter considers an evolutionary debunking argument, which states that, because our normative beliefs were greatly influenced by natural selection, these beliefs were caused in ways that were unrelated to their truth. When we know that our beliefs were caused in such ways, these beliefs cannot be justified.
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“Theism, Naturalism, and Meta‐Ethics”
Philosophy Compass, 2013Abstract The relationship between God and morality has been a topic of philosophical discussion since Socrates engaged Euthyphro in the agora. In recent years, it has received a lot of attention, as theistic philosophers have attempted to show that divine command theory and other theistic meta‐ethical accounts are defensible.
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Meta-Ethics and Meta-Epistemology
1978Recent epistemology has been heavily concerned with the conceptual and methodological foundations of the subject — in particular with the concepts of knowledge, certainty, basic knowledge, justification, and so on. In other ‘words to a considerable extent it has been taken up with meta-epistemology, in contrast with substantive epistemology, in ...
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