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Rationalist and Sentimentalist Realism: A Re-examination of the Types of Metaethical Realism and Their Implications [PDF]

International Multidisciplinary Journal of Pure Life
SUBJECT & OBJECTIVES: Ontological inquiry constitutes one of the central concerns of metaethics. Within this field, theories are commonly divided into two main categories: realist and non-realist.
Ali Ahmadi Amin, Mohammad Mahdi Monadi
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A Christological Critique of Divine Command Theory

Religions, 2023
This paper presents a theological critique of divine command theory, a metaethical theory stating that moral wrongness is constituted by God’s command.
Martin Jakobsen
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Non‐Naturalist Realism and Quietist Constructivism

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Metaethical quietists propose views that share all the features of robust non‐naturalist realism, such as a commitment to cognitivism and irreducibly normative truths, except robust realist non‐naturalists' commitment to non‐natural properties.
Rach Cosker‐Rowland
wiley   +1 more source

The Metaethics of Maat [PDF]

, 2019
This essay attempts to recover the ancient Egyptian category of "maat" as a valuable resource for contemporary metaethics and particular attention is given to its affinity with versions of modern non ...
DeLapp, Kevin
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On Our Cosmic (In)significance

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article discusses three interpretations of cosmic significance, all of which reveal something important about the notion of significance. Along the way, it proposes a unified view of significance by combining elements of each of the views.
Oskari Sivula
wiley   +1 more source

Expressivism, Inferentialism and the Theory of Meaning [PDF]

, 2010
One’s account of the meaning of ethical sentences should fit – roughly, as part to whole – with one’s account of the meaning of sentences in general. When we ask, though, where one widely discussed account of the meaning of ethical sentences fits with ...
Chrisman, Matthew; id_orcid, Chrisman, Matthew   +1 more
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A Pragmatic Approach to Metaethics [PDF]

, 2023
Metaethics is ordinarily thought of as the investigation of the metaphysics, semantics, psychology, and epistemology of normative judgment. However, metaethicists have recently started asking normative questions about our normative judgments as well ...
Riggs, Jared
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Scepticism Without Consequence? On Hard Incompatibilism and Its Normative Recommendations

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Free will scepticism about moral responsibility denies that human agents possess the kind of control required for basic desert moral responsibility. This position is often taken to have substantive normative implications, including the rejection of retributive punishment and support for reformist approaches to criminal justice.
Thomas Nys, Gijs van Donselaar
wiley   +1 more source

Brentano’s Metaethics

, 2017
This chapter explains Franz Brentano's metaethical theory and how it purports to deal with such difficulties. Brentano explains correctness in emotions by analogy with correctness in judgements. For a judgement to be correct is for it to concord with a judgement made by someone who judges with self-evidence (Evidenz).
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The Actus Reus of Attempts

The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 5, Page 785-814, September 2026.
This paper gives an account of the actus reus for a criminal attempt. Conduct that is more than merely preparatory, we argue, intrudes on the same protected domain as the complete offence. This takes a normative approach to actus reus, focusing on the reasons that the defendant acted against.
Angelo Ryu, Trenton Sewell
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