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ON THE NORMATIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE AIMS OF RELIGIOUS PRACTICE

open access: yesZygon, 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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Schrödinger's Categories: The Indeterminacy of Folk Metaethics

open access: yes, 2023
Supplemental file(s) description: None.Metaethics is a field of philosophy that addresses fundamental questions about the nature of morality. One of the central disputes in metaethics is whether moral realism is true.
Bush, Lance
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Metaethics and the Autonomy of Morality [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Vertu métaéthique de la prière chez Iris Murdoch

open access: yesThéoRèmes
What is the point of praying if God does not exist? Iris Murdoch answers: to see the Good and to be able to accomplish it. Indeed, although it presents itself as atheist, Iris Murdoch's philosophy (as well as her literature) gives the practice of prayer ...
Jean-Gabriel You
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Conceptualizing metaethics : a commentary on Prinz

open access: yes, 2015
In this commentary on Prinz’s “Naturalizing Metaethics” I shall first look briefly at his methodological assumptions. I will argue that Prinz’s approach is more radical and less conciliatory between analytical and empirical approaches than it seems from his own description.
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Arguing About Metaethics

open access: yes, 2006
A work that comprises some of the most influential papers in metaethics.

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Expressivism, Inferentialism and the Theory of Meaning [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +1 more
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Zarathustra's metaethics [PDF]

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Philosophy, 2015
Nietzsche takes moral judgments to be false beliefs, and encourages us to pursue subjective nonmoral value arising from our passions. His view that strong and unified passions make one virtuous is mathematically derivable from this subjectivism and a conceptual analysis of virtue, explaining his evaluations of character and the nature of the Overman.
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Objective Moral Facts Exist in All Possible Universes

open access: yesReligions
The question of whether a God is needed to justify or ground moral facts is mooted by the fact that true moral facts exist in all possible universes that contain rational agents. This can be demonstrated in three stages. First, it is necessarily the case
Richard Carrier
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