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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 ...
Kevin DeLapp, DeLapp, Kevin
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Um breve estudo histórico-analítico da Lei de Hume A brief historic-analytical study of Hume's Law

Trans/Form/Ação, 2006
A Lei de Hume, pela qual um dever ser não pode resultar de um ser, e a sua recíproca, pela qual um ser não pode resultar de um dever ser, ocupam posições proeminentes nas discussões de metaética.
Frank Thomas Sautter
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Crash dilemmas and the ethical design of self-driving vehicles: implications from metaethics and pragmatic road marks

AI and Ethics
How should self-driving vehicles react when an accident can no longer be averted in dangerous situations? The complex issue of designing crash algorithms has been discussed intensively in recent research literature.
Vanessa Schäffner
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The Paradox of Axiology. A Phenomenological Approach to Value Theory

Phenomenology and Mind, 2019
Are values more than measures of our needs and desires or internalized social and cultural rules of behaviour, originating in cultures and devoid of any universally accessible objectivity? Is there a place for values in a world of facts?
Roberta De Monticelli
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Aesthetic Ethics without Evil. Aischron in Greek Popular Ethics [PDF]

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2020
In the paper I consider the Greek term aischron as a candidate for a moral concept of evil, focusing on popular rather than philosophical Greek ethical thought.
Michał Bizoń
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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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Building blocks of morality

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
Most of us agree about the rules or norms of morality, what philosophers call substantive or normative ethics: be kind to small children, do not cheat on exams and return your library books on time.
Michael Ruse
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O nowych trendach w filozofii analitycznej na przykładzie metaetyki, etyki i filozofii polityki oraz o filozofowaniu w dobie sztucznej inteligencji

Analiza i Egzystencja
The article is devoted to selected new trends in metaethics, ethics, political philosophy, and the practice of philosophy with the use of artificial intelligence. It consists of five parts.
Artur Szutta
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Love and the Basis of Dignity

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract It is often said that dignity is the ground of human rights. But what grounds dignity? According to proponents of the metaphysical view, dignity is grounded in our rational capacities, our sense of justice, or a disjunctive list of valuable capacities.
Jordan David Thomas Walters
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Anti-luminosity and anti-realism in metaethics

Synthese
This paper begins by applying a version of Timothy Williamson’s anti-luminosity argument to normative properties. This argument suggests that there must be at least some unknowable normative facts in normative Sorites sequences, or otherwise we get a ...
Jussi Suikkanen
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