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“A Minimum of Domination”—The Overt Normative Orientation of Foucault's Work
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 736-759, June 2026.Abstract Answering the charge of ‘crypto‐normativity’ that has long overshadowed Michel Foucault's work, I argue that this work is animated by an overt normative orientation to keep domination to a minimum. This orientation operates both at the level of content and form.
Fabian Freyenhagen
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Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 153-179, June 2026.ABSTRACT In recent years, Orthodox Christianity has gained increasing visibility in global discussions on social ethics, encompassing issues such as climate change, environmental protection, peace, and human rights. The following paper examines the underlying metaethical framework of the Ecumenical Patriarchate's Social Ethos Document, analyzing how it
Alexander Kriebitz, Stefanos Athanasiou
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Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna, 2012 The first part of the present article is an introduction to ethics as a branch of philosophy, as moral philosophy, or philosophical thinking about morality.
Anna Malitowska
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Reasons, Mistakes, and Excuses
The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 3, Page 439-466, May 2026.Drawing on the theory of practical reasons, John Gardner has offered a seminal account of excuses in criminal law. His proposal is that an excuse asserts that the defendant acted for what she justifiably believed to be sufficient reason for her to perform the offending act although she had no such reason.
Andreas Vassiliou
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Third factor explanations and disagreement in metaethics
Synthese, 2018 Several moral objectivists try to explain the reliability of moral beliefs by appealing to a third factor, a substantive moral claim that explains, first, why we have the moral beliefs that we have and, second, why these beliefs are true.
M. Klenk
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Metaethics and the Autonomy of Morality [PDF]
, 2008 Some philosophers have been attracted to the idea that morality is an autonomous domain. One version of this idea is the thesis that non-moral claims are irrelevant to the justification of fundamental normative ethical theories.
Tristram McPherson
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Nietzsche and contemporary metaethics [PDF]
, 2018 Recent decades have witnessed a flurry of interest in Nietzsche's metaethics — his views, if any, on metaphysical, epistemological, semantic, and psychological issues about normativity and normative language and judgment. Various authors have highlighted
Silk, Alex, Silk, Alex; id_orcid
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Towards Cognitive Moral Quasi-Realism
Philosophies, 2018 There is a long-standing discussion concerning the nature of moral discourse. Multiple views range from realism—according to which moral discourse is closer to scientific discourse than to fictional discourse—to anti-realism—according to which moral ...
Eduardo García-Ramírez
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ON THE NORMATIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE AIMS OF RELIGIOUS PRACTICE
Zygon, 2021 During the last decades it has been common to assert—especially in the field of science and religion—that the aims characteristic of religious practice determine the norms we should employ when evaluating its normative status.
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The Metaethics of Constitutional Adjudication [PDF]
, 2018 The book explores the metaethical foundations of value-based arguments in constitutional adjudication. The argument develops in four steps. First, the book identifies three dominant types of value-based arguments in comparative constitutional practice: the arguments from constitutional identity, common sentiment, and universal reason.
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