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The Incompatibility of Moral Relativism and Brennan’s Argument for Epistocracy

open access: yesPolitikon, 2022
In Against Democracy, Brennan argues in favor of restricting suffrage, proposing epistocracy. He argues political power should not be held by incompetent and morally unreasonable people (i.e., the competence principle) and that epistocracy would ...
Donovan van der Haak
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The effects of idealism and relativism on the moral judgement of social vs. environmental issues, and their relation to self-reported pro-environmental behaviours.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Many studies have demonstrated that moral philosophies, such as idealism and relativism, could be used as robust predictors of judgements and behaviours related to common moral issues, such as business ethics, unethical beliefs, workplace deviance ...
Laura Zaikauskaite   +2 more
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The Problem of Relativism and Its Implication on Contemporary Issues in Islam Based on Al-Attas’ Worldview Theory

open access: yesFikri, 2023
The relativism problem –allegedly has become a frightening specter for a stable religious and social existence. Relativism which believes there is no absolute truth; the truth is relative, raises a problem by denying the existence of God's truth and ...
Mohammad Muslih   +3 more
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Radical Distinction of the Secular and the Problem of Violence in the Context of Contemporary Culture’s Philosophical Comprehension

open access: yesКонцепт: философия, религия, культура, 2023
The theory of secularization has long been at the forefront of the philosophical discourse of the 20th century. The secular perception of social processes could not help but influence their dynamics, the decisions made by people at different levels of ...
D. S. Litova
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Against Relativism. The Importance of Truth in the Ethics of St. John Paul II

open access: yesThe Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II, 2016
The main aim of the paper is the analysis and critique of axiological relativism, typical of contemporary Western culture. Its supporters deny the objective status of moral norms and values. Axiological relativism leads to moral indifference based on
Dorota Probucka
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Harman on Relativism and Moral Diversity

open access: yesCrítica, 2018
Harman on Relativism and Moral ...
David Drebushenko, Stephen J. Sullivan
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Moral subjectivism and the semantics of disagreements

open access: yesFilosofia Unisinos, 2023
In this paper, I discuss which semantic theory moral subjectivists should adopt. Moral subjectivism is understood broadly to include all theories according to which moral sentences are truth-apt, at least sometimes true, and made true by the mental ...
Vitor Sommavilla
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Report and Analysis on Ayatullah Jawadi Amuli’s Viewpoint about the Ethical Relativism [PDF]

open access: yesاخلاق وحیانی, 2011
Ascription and moral relativism are of important issues throughout the history of philosophy. Some people impressed by the findings of cultural differences; societies; customs; And even personal tastes, with rejecting every kind of generalism and ...
Mustafa Salatin, Muhsen Jawadi
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On Ernst Bloch’s Moral Theory

open access: yesPraktyka Teoretyczna, 2020
This article describes the origin of Bloch’s moral theory, which was formulated partly as a response to Simmel’s moral relativism. It also shows that Bloch’s theory is a coherent example of what Charles Taylor calls “expressivism,” a contemporary ...
Lucien Pelletier
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Individual differences in ethics positions: The EPQ-5.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
We revised the Ethics Position Questionnaire (EPQ), which measures variations in sensitivity to harm (idealism) and to moral standards (relativism).
Ernest H O'Boyle, Donelson R Forsyth
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