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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
wiley   +1 more source

A Critical Study of Relativism: A Feature of Postmodernism

Pakistan Journal of Islamic Research
In 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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Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1998
As one would expect this is an interesting book, although also a slightly quirky one. In it Harman defends a version of moral relativism, and Thomson defends a version of its apparent opposite, a thesis of moral objectivity. Then each has a go at the other.
Simon Blackburn, Gilbert Harman, Judith Jarvis Thomson   +2 more
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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 Review of Moral Relativism, Universalism, and the Teaching of the Catholic Church on Catholic Morality

, 2022
Damianus Abun, Galat Margarita A., Stephen G., Guzon   +2 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Using Cultural Theory to Specify the Policy Actors, Belief Systems, and Sources of Coalition, Conflict, Stability, and Change in Policy Advocacy Coalitions and Environmental Resource Policies

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We use grid‐group cultural theory (CT) to specify underspecified aspects of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). Our theoretical synthesis of CT and the ACF provides, first, an exhaustive typology of policy actors and their cultural cognitive biases that entail, guide, and constrain policy core beliefs about problem definitions and ...
Metodi Sotirov, Brendon Swedlow
wiley   +1 more source

El dilema del jugador

Caracteres: Estudios Culturales y Críticos de la Esfera Digital, 2018
Why we are entitled to negative moral judgments when someone is playing games about child pornography, but this is not the case when someone acts as a fictional killer?
Alberto Murcia
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Wędrująca idea tolerancji

Slavia Meridionalis, 2014
The travelling idea of tolerance As an idea, “tolerance” belongs to a category of notions that can be seen as a subjective phenomenon in the sense that the underlying semantics of its assumptions are greatly varied and variable.
Wojciech Burszta
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The Evolution of the Person in Care: Autonomy, Relationships and Nursing Practice

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
Brendan McCormack
wiley   +1 more source