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The Person in Relation: An Analysis of Great Catholic Education via Thomistic Personalism

Studia Gilsoniana, 2018
The author shows the usefulness of the philosophy of Thomistic personalism in determining the type of education most beneficial to the human person’s highest development by building on St.
Melissa Salisbury
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Is Divine Law Indispensable to Moral Obligation? A Reply to Elizabeth Anscombe

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This paper assesses Elizabeth Anscombe’s influential argument in her 1958 essay “Modern Moral Philosophy,” which holds that secular moral obligation is metaphysically incoherent without a divine law framework.
Jeffery Jay Lowder
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What is interpretive metaethics and why do we need it?

, 2023
: In the wake of the global moral condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this chapter picks up on an important intuition at the center of moral thought and discourse: the intuition of objective right and wrong.
Meijer, Michiel
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Kant in Metaethics: The Paradox of Autonomy, Solved by Publicity

, 2017
This chapter argues for the centrality of Kant's theory of practical reason for recent debates in metaethics and proposes a constructivist solution to the problem of self ...
BAGNOLI, Carla, Carla Bagnoli
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Critique of Metaethical Constructivism

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Metaethical constructivism, proposed by Sharon Street, has been described as a novel and promising metaethical theory. It is a form of cognitivist anti-realism that purports to be without substantive normative assumptions, while still allowing for the possibility of an agent being mistaken about what is normatively true for them.
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MetaEthics: Foundation and Method for the Future of Ethics [PDF]

Moral theory often fails to secure a universal, non-arbitrary ground, sliding into relativism or dogma. This white paper develops MetaEthics: the Ethics of Metaphysical Congruence (henceforth MetaEthics), a framework that anchors normativity in Reality ...
Rodrigues Bento, Francisco Manuel
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The Consequentialist Judgment Paradox

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In normative ethics, some of the oldest and still lively debates revolve around the question of consequentialism. The question is not so much about making a binary decision between consequentialism and its alternatives (notably deontology ...
Arthur Ionescu
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Can a Darwinian be a Christian? Ethical Issues

Zygon, 2000
A brief historical overview shows the main Christian claims aboutmorality and proper conduct, looking at questions about both prescriptions (‘normative ethics’) and foundations (‘metaethics’).
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Rawls and metaethics: it’s complicated!

, 2013
In recent years the philosophical debate about the methods of political philosophy has been characterized by an increasing number of different options concerning the relation between normative theory and metaethics. In particular, the idea that normative
G. Bistagnino
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Tiantai Metaethics [PDF]

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2021
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