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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"moral absolutism"”.
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Against Lying: Some Historical Arguments in Favor of Moral Absolutism
<p>Beginning with Augustine of Hippo, an unbroken lineage of philosophical arguments has been in place supporting an absolutist prohibition against all lies, a lineage that has often been referred to as the absolutist `tradition' against lying. This paper explores this so-called tradition by first …
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What Does Value Matter? The Interest-Relational Theory of the Semantics and Metaphysics of Value
… for action are often cited by rationalists and moral realists as providing a desire-independent foundation for normativity. Those maintaining instead that normativity is dependent upon motivation often deny that anything called '""value"" or ""reasons"" exists. According to the …