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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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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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Abstract Chapter 9 considers the extent to which the resulting rationalist view is a form of realism about ethics. People define realism as opposed to anti-realism in different ways. The present theory is realist in two good senses. (1) The view endorses categorical moral obligations and hence moral inescapability of a sort.
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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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Moral Relativism and Moral Realism
Monist, 1984Gilbert Harman has recently distinguished three different kinds of moral relativism.1 One form of moral relativism Harman calls moral judg ment relativism (MJR). It is the view that all "moral judgments contain an implicit reference to the speaker or some other person or group or certain moral standards, etc." Harman never says what he means by ...
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Moral Realism and Moral Knowledge
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