Questions tagged [moral-realism]
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What is one’s incentive to be moral?
Assuming there is no afterlife, or whatever afterlife there is does not depend on the morality of my actions in this life, what is one’s incentive to be moral given basic rational self-interest is ...
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Golden Rule - Conflict
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
Jesus, Plato... I don't care who said that, this is not a history question, I mean philosophy.
So, my questions:
Should one do good with someone ...
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Moral Non-Realists Responses to Suffering
It seems to me that one possible grounding for objective morality is in the inherent badness of suffering.
Suffering is inherently bad, I believe, by definition, and non-instrumental suffering could ...
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Are there any philosophers who argue for a non-utilitarian moral realism from phenomenology?
What I have in mind is a non-utilitarian alternative to Sharon Hewitt Rawlette (a summary from a podcast) which would propose something like:
Morality is objective because moral facts are equally as ...
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How can a moral antirealist make moral normative claims?
So as I understand it, normative ethics asked questions like, "what should I do?" whereas metaethics asks... "what makes something good or bad."
What I'm confused about is... if ...
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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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What is the origin of the idea that moral realism requires a god?
This idea has always been very strange to me. The first time I encountered this idea was when I was required to read about the Euthyphro Dilemma in college. It felt like a whole dialogue about ...
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Could Ethical subjectivism be classified as Moral realism if we include God?
For the sake of my question, God = "an omnipotent being". I am not referring to any specific gods that come from any past or present religions.
Ethical subjectivism generally stands in opposition to ...
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Can moral realism, physicalism, and physical causal closure be all true at the same time?
For illustrative purposes, let X be the set of all instances where Bob has tortured and eaten babies alive for fun. (Also assume that X is non-empty, to avoid trivial responses.)
Suppose that ...
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Can erotetic logic be used to devise a noncognitivist moral realism?
The IEP article on moral realism says that noncognitivist realism is logically possible, but goes on to assess the one attempt at such a position (Bruce Waller's) thusly:
Waller’s divide-and-conquer ...
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If moral statements aren't supposed to be reports of objective facts, does the practice of "fallacy checking" apply to moral arguments?
Maybe this is just a case of Jörgensen’s dilemma, but so I was reading the SEP article about feminist perspectives on argumentation, more specifically this passage:
The difficulty some philosophers ...
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Moral Error Theory questions
The following is a quote taken from:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-anti-realism/#Nonc
The error theorist doesn’t think that torturing innocent people is morally wrong, but doesn’t think ...
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Can there be objective moral facts that have no innate imperative bindingness – what everyone ought to do regardless of their needs and preferences?
My interest is in presenting results from the science of social morality in ways that will be culturally useful. (This science is the study of the origins and function of behaviors motivated by our ...
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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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Moral realism: Can the Bible be a reliable moral guide for an atheist?
Assume both atheism and moral realism are true. Can a religious text, such as the Bible, still be a reliable moral guide? Or do the religious aspects invalidate the entire text?
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