Ethics: Inventing Right and WrongPenguin UK, 30 ago 1990 - 256 páginas An insight into moral skepticism of the 20th century. The author argues that our every-day moral codes are an 'error theory' based on the presumption of moral facts which, he persuasively argues, don't exist. His refutation of such facts is based on their metaphysical 'queerness' and the observation of cultural relativity. |
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... look after himself. All such statements express first order ethical judgements of different degrees of generality ... point about how we think and reason about moral matters, or put forward a view about the meanings of various ethical ...
... look after himself. All such statements express first order ethical judgements of different degrees of generality ... point about how we think and reason about moral matters, or put forward a view about the meanings of various ethical ...
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... view about the status of moral values and the nature of moral valuing, about where and how they fit into the world. These first and second order views ... point. The kinds of behaviour to which moral values and disvalues are ascribed are ...
... view about the status of moral values and the nature of moral valuing, about where and how they fit into the world. These first and second order views ... point. The kinds of behaviour to which moral values and disvalues are ascribed are ...
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... view; on examination it soon ceases to be plausible, but that is beside the point, for it is quite independent of the second order thesis at present under consideration. What is more confusing is that different second order views ...
... view; on examination it soon ceases to be plausible, but that is beside the point, for it is quite independent of the second order thesis at present under consideration. What is more confusing is that different second order views ...
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... point can be illustrated by reflection on the conflicts and swings of opinion in recent years between non-cognitivist and naturalist views about the central, basic, meanings of ethical terms. If we reject the view that it is the ...
... point can be illustrated by reflection on the conflicts and swings of opinion in recent years between non-cognitivist and naturalist views about the central, basic, meanings of ethical terms. If we reject the view that it is the ...
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