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Does any strand, school, or proponent of moral realism say anything about what happens to moral offenders?
Suppose that:
(some form of) moral realism is true, that is, there exists at least some moral claims/assertions/principles that are themselves 'true', in some adequate sense
a person knows/is aware ...
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If Parfit's objectivism metaphysical?
In On What Matters, Derek Parfit argues that we sometimes have objective reasons to have certain desires or aims. I find this to be a metaphysical claim, and other philosophers (such as Michael Smith) ...
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Can analogues of moral non-naturalism make some metaphysical hypotheses more defensible?
One common position in meta-ethics is that facts about morality exist, but are not natural properties of the universe but rather are something else. I can't measure the wrongness of slavery the same ...
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Can we characterize libertarianism without assuming moral realism?
In the discussion about free will, moral realism and libertarianism go hand in hand.
It seems that libertarian free will is assumed to be what we need to “attach” moral responsibility to certain ...
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