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Mackie’s moral “error theory” seems committed to a view of objectivity that takes ‘objective’ as coeval with ‘intelligible apart from human sensibility’. That's certainly one way of cashing out...
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It strikes me that the longstanding debate about this issue does not include (at least to my knowledge) a comparison of the responses given by adults with social experience vs. children. The...
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In his Treatise, Hume refers to "a progress of the sentiments" (Book III, Sec. II). As I understand this, he takes it that we may develop a bona fide commitment to justice such that it can...
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I'm seeking additional examples to go along with those like (a) the Babylonian king Hammurabi receiving his ‘code’ from Shamash (the god of justice) or (b) the God of the Israelites presenting...
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Schematically, we might propose it as follows: 1. An object, act, inaction, or state of affairs (X) has moral value (V) if and only if normal human beings are disposed, under the appropriate...
26 October 2014 4,185 8 View
In 1997, former chairman of the President's council on bioethics, advanced the idea that “in crucial cases…repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason’s power to fully...
13 February 2014 7,210 18 View
Converging evidence from the fields of moral psychology, anthropology, and cognitive neuroscience favors the notion that moral judgment is primarily a product of intuition, a cognitive process...
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