Ein Eliminativismus moralischer Eigenschaften auf dem Prüfstand

This article presents a recent argument for moral property eliminativism delivered by Ryan Byerly. He claims that the supervenience of moral truths upon nonmoral facts is best explained by appeal to an ontology that does not include moral entities. If this is so, we have no reason to assume the exis...

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Main Author: Niederbacher, Bruno 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:German
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Published: Herder 2020
In: Theologie und Philosophie
Year: 2020, Volume: 95, Issue: 4, Pages: 558-571
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Ontology / Entity / Morals / Existence
IxTheo Classification:NBA Dogmatics
VA Philosophy
Online Access: Volltext (doi)
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Summary:This article presents a recent argument for moral property eliminativism delivered by Ryan Byerly. He claims that the supervenience of moral truths upon nonmoral facts is best explained by appeal to an ontology that does not include moral entities. If this is so, we have no reason to assume the existence of moral properties. This article displays some weaknesses of this argument and suggests that we need to assume moral principles in order to explain the moral value of actions. Moreover, it argues that moral principles, metaphysically speaking, consist in facts involving moral properties.
ISSN:0040-5655
Contains:Enthalten in: Theologie und Philosophie
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.23769/thph-95-2020-019