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Morality, Moralism, and Realism
2008Abstract There may have been a time, perhaps at the peak of Victorian self-esteem in the English-speaking countries, when morality generally occupied an unquestioned place at the top of a hierarchy of social and personal values. Indeed, as the high tide of Christian religious influence began to ebb in Europe, morality itself as a sort of
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Moral realism and anti-realism
2018This chapter deals with various issues and debates pertaining to moral realism. Realism positions are themselves quite diverse, and are typically divided into versions of naturalism and non-naturalism. One version of anti-realism holds that there simply are no moral facts at all.
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Moral Realism Moral and Theological Realism: The Explanatory Argument
2011Moral realism stands for the idea that there are some moral claims that are true in a certain way. Their truth does not depend on the attitudes that anyone takes towards their content. Theological realism is simply theism: the view that God exists. In this chapter, the God refers to the traditional God of Western monotheism: an omniscient, omnipotent ...
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2003
AbstractThis is a book in metaethics that defends a brand of moral realism known as non‐naturalism. The book has five Parts. Part I outlines the sort of moral realism that the author wishes to defend, and then offers critiques of expressivism and constructivism. Part II is devoted to issues in metaphysics.
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AbstractThis is a book in metaethics that defends a brand of moral realism known as non‐naturalism. The book has five Parts. Part I outlines the sort of moral realism that the author wishes to defend, and then offers critiques of expressivism and constructivism. Part II is devoted to issues in metaphysics.
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2018
Moral realism is the view that there are facts of the matter about which actions are right and which wrong, and about which things are good and which bad. But behind this bald statement lies a wealth of complexity. If one is a full-blown moral realist, one probably accepts the following three claims.
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Moral realism is the view that there are facts of the matter about which actions are right and which wrong, and about which things are good and which bad. But behind this bald statement lies a wealth of complexity. If one is a full-blown moral realist, one probably accepts the following three claims.
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2023
Abstract Moral realists hold that there are moral facts and that some moral claims are objectively true. This view is supported by intuition, which defeasibly justifies our belief in a wide variety of such facts. To be sure, this justification could be defeated, if there were compelling reason to be skeptical about the very existence of ...
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Abstract Moral realists hold that there are moral facts and that some moral claims are objectively true. This view is supported by intuition, which defeasibly justifies our belief in a wide variety of such facts. To be sure, this justification could be defeated, if there were compelling reason to be skeptical about the very existence of ...
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Abstract The aim of this chapter is less to show that some variety of Platonic metaphysics is the answer to questions about morality but rather to argue that if some variety of Platonic transcendentalist metaethics is ruled out, there is no genuine morality at all: all that remains is prudential advice, or something like a ...
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1993
Abstract Granted that it is correct to reply to a moral utterance by saying ‘That’s true’ or ‘That’s not true’, the question remains of what sort of assessment is indicated by these responses. Dummett, with whose paper this emphasis is associated, also says that a statement is false if a state of affairs obtains such that a man asserting
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Abstract Granted that it is correct to reply to a moral utterance by saying ‘That’s true’ or ‘That’s not true’, the question remains of what sort of assessment is indicated by these responses. Dummett, with whose paper this emphasis is associated, also says that a statement is false if a state of affairs obtains such that a man asserting
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Moral Realism and Moral Dilemma
The Journal of Philosophy, 1983Abstract Argues against two articles of Bernard Williams in which he attacks moral realism. In the first (Ethical Consistency), Williams finds a disanalogy between judgements of matters of fact and moral judgements in that when two beliefs are irreconcilable one must simply cede: whereas an obligation that overrides another obligation ...
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