Moral Contextualism and the Problem of Triviality
Moral contextualism is the view that claims like ‘A ought to X’ are implicitly relative to some (contextually variable) standard. This leads to a problem: what are fundamental moral claims like ‘You ought to maximize happiness’ relative to? If this claim is relative to a utilitarian standard, then i...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2014
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2014, Volume: 17, Issue: 2, Pages: 285-297 |
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Moral Realism
B Problem of disagreement B Moral error theory B Problem of triviality B Moral contextualism |
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