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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
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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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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
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The Enterprise of Socratic Metaethics [PDF]

, 2000
That human beings have the potential for rationality and the ability to cultivate it is a fact of human nature. But to value rationality and its subsidiary character dispositions - impartiality, intellectual discrimination, foresight, deliberation ...
Piper, Adrian M. S.
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Further problems with projectivism [PDF]

, 2016
From David Hume onwards, many philosophers have argued that moral thinking is characterized by a tendency to “project” our own mental states onto the world.
Pölzler, Thomas
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Eksperymenty myślowe a utylitaryzm. Odpowiedź na artykuł Włodka Rabinowicza (Thought Experiments and Utilitarianism. A Reply to Wlodek Rabinowicz’s “Preference Utilitarianism by Way of Preference Change?’) [PDF]

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2010
It is a comment on W. Rabinowicz "Utilitarianism by Way of Preference Change?", I defend Richard Hare`s argument for utilitarianism. I argue that Hare`s role reversal thought experiments can, despite of W.Rabinowicz criticism, lead to transforming ...
Krzysztof Saja
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C. S. Lewis and the Challenge of Ethics in Digital Society

Communications, 2018
This paper examines the idea that digital societies lack an ethical framework for understanding and mitigating the impact of digital technologies on human flourishing and the consequent diminishing of human agency.
Tibor Mahrik, Mark Neal
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Fittingness and Bioethics

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In bioethics, two sorts of normative categories are commonly used. These can be split into two families: the deontic categories, such as ‘right’, ‘ought to’ and ‘requirement’, and the evaluative categories, including ‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘better than’ and ‘the best’. While other normative concepts such as ‘virtue’ and ‘vice’ have also been discussed,
Ronan Ó Maonaile, James Hart
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The Significance of Ethical Disagreement for Theories of Ethical Thought and Talk [PDF]

, 2017
This chapter has two sections, each focusing on a distinct way in which ethical disagreement and variations in ethical judgment matter for theories of ethical thought and talk.
Björnsson, Gunnar
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Species and the Good in Anne Conway's Metaethics [PDF]

, 2020
Anne Conway rejects the view that creatures are essentially members of any natural kind more specific than the kind 'creature'. That is, she rejects essentialism about species membership.
Grey, John R. T.
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