INTUITING MORALITY

1. Introduction: What is the Problem? There are long standing problems of how one can account for moral properties, problems that are driven by the background metaphysical milieu into which one is trying to fit the moral properties in question. David Hume faced this problem in the context of the New...

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Main Author: Rice, Martin A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2006
In: Philosophia reformata
Year: 2006, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 154-170
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Summary:1. Introduction: What is the Problem? There are long standing problems of how one can account for moral properties, problems that are driven by the background metaphysical milieu into which one is trying to fit the moral properties in question. David Hume faced this problem in the context of the Newtonian-mechanistic worldview. His solution was to compromise the mechanistic worldview by undermining the physicalistic notion of causal relations via his famous Critique of Induction and reduce moral properties to a sensory “sentiment.”
ISSN:2352-8230
Contains:In: Philosophia reformata
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22116117-90000386