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Moral realism in nursing

Nursing Philosophy, 2014
AbstractFor more than 15 years Professor Per Nortvedt has been arguing the case for moral realism in nursing and the health‐care context more generally. His arguments focus on the clinical contexts of nursing and medicine and are supplemented by a series of persuasive examples.
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Shakespeare, Moral Judgments, and Moral Realism

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
Among the many areas of scholarship that can be enriched through an engagement with Shakespeare’s plays, moral philosophy is a particularly fruitful territory. In the present essay, I draw on a couple of Shakespearean tragedies to come to grips with a challenge that has sometimes been mounted against moral realism. Moral realism I take to be the thesis
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Moral Realism

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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Morality, Moralism, and Realism

2008
Abstract 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

2018
This 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

2011
Moral 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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Moral Realism

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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Moral realism

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 Relativism and Moral Realism

Monist, 1984
Gilbert 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 relativism is moral realism

Philosophical Studies, 2014
I begin by describing my relation with Nicholas Sturgeon and his objections to things I have said about moral explanations. Then I turn to issues about moral relativism. One of these is whether a plausible version of moral relativism can be formulated as a claim about the logical form of certain moral judgments.
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