How to Define ‘Moral Realism’

The paper considers three possible definitions of what it is for an action to be ‘morally’ good: (1) that it is overall important to do; (2) that it is overall important to do in virtue of a universalisable principle; and (3) that it is overall important to do in virtue of a universalisable principl...

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Main Author: Swinburne, Richard 1934- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press 2024
In: New blackfriars
Year: 2024, Volume: 105, Issue: 2, Pages: 116-130
Further subjects:B universalisability
B Moral Realism
B Moral Sense
B Reflective Equilibrium
B Terence Cuneo
B moral goodness
B Russ Shafer-Landau
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