Moral Testimony and its Authority
A person sometimes forms moral beliefs by relying on another person's moral testimony. In this paper I advance a cognitivist normative account of this phenomenon. I argue that for a person's actions to be morally good, they must be based on a recognition of the moral reasons bearing on act...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2001
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2001, Volume: 4, Issue: 3, Pages: 253-266 |
| Further subjects: | B
Moral testimony
B Action B Cognitivism B Understanding B Reasons B Autonomy B moral epistemology |
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