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Moral relativism and political legitimacy : an argument for a global social contract
, 2021 Patrick Emerton
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Democratic Equality in a Populist Anti‐Multicultural Era
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores what the future role of multiculturalism is, or may be, in Europe by looking at the case of the Netherlands. It focuses on how to respond to the tensions between, on the one hand, prevalent discourses on the dangers, demise and reckoning of multiculturalism and, on the other hand, the promotion of equal citizenship and ...
Tamar de Waal
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Anselm's Temporal‐Ontological Proof
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In his Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm presented two additional arguments for the existence of God beyond those that appear in the Proslogion. In “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Argument,” Robert M. Adams isolates each. One, he develops into a modal ontological argument along the lines of other 20th century ontological arguments (e.g., those of ...
Daniel Rubio
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Relational Egalitarianism and Warranted Stigma
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Relational egalitarians oppose social hierarchy. Or, more precisely, they oppose intolerable social hierarchy. Stigma is often included among those unequal forms of relating that relational egalitarians ought to oppose, but there are circumstances in which stigmatizing behaviors or group identities might be strategically important for opposing
Matilda Carter
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PROSPECTS OF DISCOURSE ETHICS IN A TECHNOCRACTIC SOCIETY
Дискурс, 2018 The article presents an overview of modern objectivistic and subjectivistic moral theories. Emotivism, ethical naturalism and moral cognitivism led to relativism, to the opposition of value and truth, and to ethical norms being defined by the opinion of ...
L. S. Moskovchuk
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Certainties and the Bedrock of Moral Reasoning: Three Ways the Spade Turns
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we identify and explain three kinds of bedrock in moral thought. The term “bedrock,” as introduced by Wittgenstein in §217 of the Philosophical Investigations, stands for the end of a chain of reasoning. We affirm that some chains of moral reasoning do indeed end with certainty.
Konstantin Deininger, Herwig Grimm
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A Modest Conception of Moral Right & Wrong
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Taking inspiration from Hume, I advance a conception of the part of morality concerned with right and wrong, rooted in the actual moral rules established and followed within our society. Elsewhere, I have argued this approach provides a way of thinking about how we are genuinely “bound in a moral way” to keep our moral obligations that it is ...
Jorah Dannenberg
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A Critical Study of Relativism: A Feature of Postmodernism
Pakistan Journal of Islamic ResearchIn the Western countries, the concept of postmodernism is not new and novel. It is an extension of human inquiry in social issues and problems, new shapes of expressions and new trends of analyses and sensibility.
Ahmad Nadeem, Muhammad Akram Rana
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Bad Practices: Unintended Consequences of Practice‐Based Theories of Reference
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Practice theories are a genus of causal theories of reference. They claim that the semantic referent of an utterance of a name is determined by features of a practice of using that name to speaker‐refer to, or coordinate actions around, a certain object.
Hugo Heagren
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