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Folk Moral Objectivism: The Case of Harmful Actions [PDF]
It is controversial whether ordinary people regard beliefs about the wrongness of harmful actions as objectively correct. Our deflationary hypothesis, consistent with much of the evidence, is that people are objectivists about harmful actions that are ...
Paulo Sousa +3 more
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Empirical research on folk moral objectivism [PDF]
Lay persons may have intuitions about morality's objectivity. What do these intuitions look like? And what are their causes and consequences? In recent years, an increasing number of scholars have begun to investigate these questions empirically.
Thomas Pölzler, Jennifer Cole Wright
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Moral objectivism and a punishing God [PDF]
Many moral philosophers have assumed that ordinary folk embrace moral objectivism. But, if so, why do folk embrace objectivism? One possibility is the pervasive connection between religion and morality in ordinary life. Some theorists
Hagop Sarkissian
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Attitude of Romanian Medical Students and Doctors toward Business Ethics: Analyzing the Influence of Sex, Age, and Ethics Education [PDF]
This study investigated the attitude of Romanian medical students and doctors toward business ethics by measuring the preference for a particular ethical philosophy, namely, the preference for Machiavellianism, moral objectivism, social Darwinism ...
George-Dumitru Constantin +7 more
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Moral Subjectivism vs Moral Objectivism
Moral subjectivism is not self-defeating, contrary to what moral objectivists claim. Ockham’s Razor favours moral subjectivism over moral objectivism. It is circular for moral objectivists to say that since we construct sound and cogent arguments out of ...
Seungbae Park
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Shadowlands of Objectivism and Comprehensiveness
The article aims at presenting an overview of the main concepts in the philosophical thought of Zhang Shenfu, one of the leading intellectuals from Republican China (1912–1949). The study sets out from a brief summary of Zhang’s intellectual achievements,
Jan Vrhovski
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Moral objectivism across the lifespan
We report the results of two studies that examine folk metaethical judgments about the objectivity of morality. We found that participants attributed almost as much objectivity to ethical statements as they did to statements of physical fact and ...
J. Beebe, David Sackris
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Misunderstanding Metaethics: Difficulties Measuring Folk Objectivism and Relativism
Recent research on the metaethical beliefs of ordinary people appears to show that they are metaethical pluralists that adopt different metaethical standards for different moral judgments.
Lance S. Bush, David Moss
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Objectivism in Law and Judicial Discernment [PDF]
The philosophical discussion about objective or subjective is sometimes focused on beings and things; Sometimes it is about linguistic propositions and expressions, and in the case of beings and things, it occurs in both metaphysical objectivism and ...
ahmad vaezi
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Challenging traditional approaches: 360° feedback and theories of the multiplicity of self [PDF]
Multi-rater feedback instruments have been an established way of providing feedback to employees in organisations for nearly three decades, yet it remains debatable whether the use of these instruments adds value for recipients or their organisations. In
Paul Lawrence, Tatiana Bachkirova
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