The Embodiment Thesis

In this essay I articulate and defend a thesis about the nature of morality called “the embodiment thesis”. The embodiment thesis states that moral values underdetermine the obligations and entitlements of individual persons, and that actual social institutions must embody morality by specifying the...

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Main Author: Garthoff, Jon (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2004
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2004, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 15-29
Further subjects:B John Rawls
B Fair play
B Moral relativism
B basic structure of society
B moral values
B Embodiment
B Social institutions
B coordination problem
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