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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Ethical Naturalism"”.
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What Does Theism Add to Ethical Naturalism?
… theism add anything substantive to theories of ethical naturalism? In this paper, I examine this question. I argue that theistic naturalism appears to incur certain objections as well as provide a plausible and explanatory constraint on content for theories of ethical naturalism. As a result, a …
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Ethics and human nature : a reconsideration of ethical naturalism in contemporary thomist writings
… part of any adequate contemporary restatement of ethical naturalism. Two different approaches to the Aristotelian tradition in ethics are discussed: in the one judgments of value are based on a particular human psychology; in the other they are related to the standards of excellence associated …
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The ‘Ought’ of Flourishing in Elizabeth Anscombe’s ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’ and Philippa Foot’s Natural Goodness
… the prevailing, yet (what she deemed) faulty, ethical theories of her day towards a virtue-based ethical naturalism (which, I argue, can be extrapolated from her notion of ‘brute facts’) is the starting point of what has come to be known as the Aretaic Turn. Philippa Foot, a friend and …
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The Historical And Contemporary Significance of Anscombe and Foot's Metaethical Thought
… I argue that Anscombe and Foot’s metaethical thought was not onlysignificant for the history of metaethics in the twentieth-century, but continues to be significant for contemporary thought. In Part One, I argue that the historical significance of Anscombe and Foot’s metaethical …
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Peter Railton's moral realism
… charge of 'naturalistic fallacy' when advocating ethical naturalism. I will discuss both his reductionist and non-reductionist accounts and suggest that the latter is a better approach for a moral realist to justify moral beliefs. I will also critically discuss his arguments for instrumental …