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Law’s Argumentative Structure Belies the New “Moral Impact” Theory of Law [PDF]
The new Moral Impact Theory (“MIT”) of law is novel, innovative, and influential. It claims that the moral impacts of legal institutional actions, rather than the linguistic content of any “rules” or pronouncements, determine law’s content. MIT’s corollary is thereby that the practice of legal interpretation consists in the inquiry into what is morally
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Possible Dilemmas Raised by Impossible Moral Requirements
The priority that Tessman’s argument gives to phenomenological and neuropsychological explanations of moral requirements entails a fundamental shift in our understanding of these.
Lisa Rivera
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We are pleased to present to the Brazilian and international philosophical community the third number of the twenty-one volume (2020 - September-December) of Unisinos Journal of Philosophy, which consists of eight articles and one book review.
Denis Coitinho
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Predicting how US public opinion on moral issues will change from 2018 to 2020 and beyond
The General Social Survey, conducted every 2 years, measures public opinion on a wide range of moral issues. The data from the 2020 survey are expected to be released in mid-October 2021.
Pontus Strimling +2 more
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This paper sugests the readers to be critical in their concern for the problem of pornography. It seems clear that pornography is a moral problem, but a simple argument from Traditional Philosophy of Language has shown that pornography does not have any ...
Herminie Soemitro
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Predicaments of Communication, Argument, and Power: Towards a Critical Theory of Controversy
A critical theory of controversy would require the integration ofthe normative study of argumentation with critical studies of practices. Jiirgen Habermas has made a substantial contribution to such a project by embedding argumentation in a theory of ...
G. Thomas Goodnight
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Pain for the Moral Error Theory? A New Companions-in-Guilt Argument [PDF]
ABSTRACTThe moral error theorist claims that moral discourse is irredeemably in error because it is committed to the existence of properties that do not exist. A common response has been to postulate ‘companions in guilt’—forms of discourse that seem safe from error despite sharing the putatively problematic features of moral discourse.
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The principle of organic unities is a metaphysical claim regarding the nature of moral value. It states that the value of the whole is not equal to the summation of its parts.
Graham Floyd
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Argument and the 'Moral Impact' Theory of Law
The new Moral Impact Theory (“MIT”) of law is novel, innovative, and influential. It claims that the moral impacts of legal institutional actions, rather than the linguistic content of “rules” or pronouncements, determine law’s content. MIT’s corollary is that the practice of legal interpretation consists in the inquiry into what is morally required as
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Until recently, there have only been what are considered to be moral beliefs/worldviews/cultural practices as moral justification for actions in African ethics.
Zubairu BAMBALE
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