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Think, 2023
AbstractWe often describe actions as good, bad, right, wrong, fair, unkind, deserved, disrespectful, a bit much, and so on. This article asks: Do these terms describe facts about our actions? And do those facts tell us to perform certain actions and refrain from performing others? If so, what exactly does that mean?
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AbstractWe often describe actions as good, bad, right, wrong, fair, unkind, deserved, disrespectful, a bit much, and so on. This article asks: Do these terms describe facts about our actions? And do those facts tell us to perform certain actions and refrain from performing others? If so, what exactly does that mean?
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2011
Do moral facts exist? What would they be like if they did? What is the link between moral judgement and motivation? Can we know whether something is right and wrong? Is morality a fiction? Metaethics: An Introduction presents a very clear and engaging survey of the key concepts and positions in what has become one of the most exciting and influential ...
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Do moral facts exist? What would they be like if they did? What is the link between moral judgement and motivation? Can we know whether something is right and wrong? Is morality a fiction? Metaethics: An Introduction presents a very clear and engaging survey of the key concepts and positions in what has become one of the most exciting and influential ...
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2010
Metaethics can be described as the philosophical study of the nature of moral judgment. It is concerned with such questions as: Do moral judgments express beliefs or rather desires and inclinations? Are moral judgments apt to be assessed in terms of truth and falsity? Do moral sentences have factual meaning?
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Metaethics can be described as the philosophical study of the nature of moral judgment. It is concerned with such questions as: Do moral judgments express beliefs or rather desires and inclinations? Are moral judgments apt to be assessed in terms of truth and falsity? Do moral sentences have factual meaning?
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2019
Abstract Aristotle’s critique of attempts to ground ethics in metaphysical abstractions would be the logical place for him to have articulated the case for a naturalistic ethics, but he does not do so. Rather, we find, in Eudemian Ethics, a contrary case for a distinction between the natural good and the practical good. Given Aristotle’s
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Abstract Aristotle’s critique of attempts to ground ethics in metaphysical abstractions would be the logical place for him to have articulated the case for a naturalistic ethics, but he does not do so. Rather, we find, in Eudemian Ethics, a contrary case for a distinction between the natural good and the practical good. Given Aristotle’s
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2016
One of the most contested issues in the interpretation of Xunzi is how his theory of morality answers metaethical questions. What is the nature and origin of morality? Do human beings construct it, or does it exist independently of them? What is the relation of morality to the natural world and whatever might have created or imparted order to that ...
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One of the most contested issues in the interpretation of Xunzi is how his theory of morality answers metaethical questions. What is the nature and origin of morality? Do human beings construct it, or does it exist independently of them? What is the relation of morality to the natural world and whatever might have created or imparted order to that ...
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2019
This book develops a novel interpretation of the late-nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche as holding a distinct and original metaethical position (a theory about our practice of ethics). David Emannuel Rowe characterizes it as a human-centered metaethics. A central achievement of A Nietzschean Metaethics is to bring Nietzsche into
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This book develops a novel interpretation of the late-nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche as holding a distinct and original metaethical position (a theory about our practice of ethics). David Emannuel Rowe characterizes it as a human-centered metaethics. A central achievement of A Nietzschean Metaethics is to bring Nietzsche into
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2018
Some disagreements evoke philosophical angst: the judgment that the truth of some thesis is essential for the meaning or intelligibility of our lives, combined with the worry that it might be false. Chapter 1 develops an account of this attitude, its phenomenology, and its normative status in contrast to related attitudes ...
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Some disagreements evoke philosophical angst: the judgment that the truth of some thesis is essential for the meaning or intelligibility of our lives, combined with the worry that it might be false. Chapter 1 develops an account of this attitude, its phenomenology, and its normative status in contrast to related attitudes ...
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