Posts Tagged goodness
On Moral Realism and Mind-Independence (and complex, non-natural properties)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics, Morality on February 6, 2014
Among non-natural moral realists there is a fascinating debate over whether basic moral properties, such as the properties of ‘goodness’ and ‘rightness’, are simple or complex properties. It is a fruitful debate to have, particularly because it seems many objections to non-naturalism have been against non-naturalist views that posit that ‘good’ is a simple property, […]
anti-realism, complex property, David McNaughton, ethical intuitionism, Ethics, G. E. Moore, good, goodness, J.L. Mackie, metaethics, moral motivation, moral naturalism, moral non-naturalism, moral properties, moral realism, moral reductionism, Morality, natural property, natural vs. non-natural properties, naturalism vs non-naturalism, non-natural property, objectivity, Philip Stratton-Lake, philosophy, rightness, simple property, simple vs. complex properties, supervenience, the open question argument, W.D. Ross
Law and Morality (Columbia MD, gun rights, consequentialism, Kantianism, and client counseling)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics, Morality, Political Philosophy, Politics on January 26, 2014
I was responding to a very interesting comment on another blog when some new thoughts on an issue that I find myself thinking about frequently quickly materialized: the intersection and overlap of law and morality. It’s a thorny issue for me, because as a moral realist I think that there are objective moral truths and […]
Consequentialism, criminal, Ethics, good will, goodness, gun control, gun rights, gun violence, Immanuel Kant, justice, Kantianism, moral realism, Morality, Political Philosophy, politics, rightness, self-defense, sex, Violence
Inception (and the experience machine, utilitarianism, and existentialism)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Existentialism, free will, Morality, Movies & Television Shows on January 25, 2014
SelfAwarePattern’s post from the other day on the problem of solipsism got me thinking about (my favorite solipsistic movie – no apologies to fans of the Matrix) Inception, and its tension with a thought experiment meant to undermine hedonistic utilitarianism posited by Robert Nozick. The Experience Machine Nozick asks us to consider whether we would […]
axiology, Christopher Nolan, coincidences, Consequentialism, deontology, determinism, dreams, Ethics, free will, good, goodness, hard determinism, hedonism, inception, intrinsic vs extrinsic value, Kierkegaard, logic, modus ponens, modus tollens, moral monism, Morality, movies, philosophy, Robert Nozick, Søren Kierkegaard, the experience machine, the pursuit of pleasure, thought experiment, utilitarianism, value
Is Surveillance by the NSA Just? (deontology, Kant, Ross, and the priority of the right)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Morality, Political Philosophy, Politics on January 18, 2014
To say that there has been a vociferous response to the continuing revelations of surveillance conducted by the NSA might be to state the facts mildly; there has been heated debate in the public sphere on the matter, culminating in a presidential address yesterday declaring that (modest) changes would be made. President Barack Obama’s remarks […]
anti-terrorism, Barack Obama, cellphone tracking, criminal, deontology, duty-based ethics, Ethics, fundamental rights, goodness, Immanuel Kant, John Locke, justice, Kant, Kantianism, law, metaethics, Morality, national security agency, NSA, obligations, paternalism, philosophy, Political Philosophy, politics, respect, rightness, rights, Snowden, surveillance, terrorism, The Right and the Good, W.D. Ross
The Call of Duties pt II (Thoughts on Ross’s The Right and The Good [on partial knowledge, epistemic access, and luck])
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics, Morality on January 8, 2014
In a previous entry, I explicated W.D. Ross’s argument that “morally right action” does not mean the same thing as “morally good action”, with special attention given to the premise that was the most essential to his argument: it is the not the case that it is obligatory to act from a good motive. His […]
a priori, duty-based ethics, Ethical dilemma, ethical intu, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, good will, goodness, metaethics, moral belief, moral monism, moral non-naturalism, moral perception, moral pluralism, moral properties, Morality, philosophy, rationalism vs empiricism, sui generis, The Right and the Good, W.D. Ross
Moral Twin Earth pt I (and the open question argument, Cornell realism, and the causal theory of reference)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics on January 1, 2014
One of the more reoccurring sci-fi plot devices is that of traveling to a “twin” earth, where persons are for the most part the same, except that different events have occurred; a recent heated debate in metaethics has been on what occurs when, stipulating that each party has discovered the objective moral truths of the […]
causal theory of reference, Cornell realism, earth, error theory, functionalism, G. E. Moore, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, goodness, Hilary Putnam, Mark Timmons, moral naturalism, moral realism, moral twin earth, naturalism vs non-naturalism, philosophical naturalism, philosophy, richard boyd, rightness, Saul Kripke, science fiction, semantics, sui generis, supervenience, synthetic property identities, the argument from disagreement, the naturalistic fallacy, the open question argument
The Call of Duties (Thoughts on W.D. Ross’s The Right and the Good) pt I
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics, Morality on December 29, 2013
For a person who professes to be a proponent of ethical pluralism (which posits the CALL OF prima facie DUTIES), I am surely among the few who have not read W.D. Ross’s The Right and the Good from cover to cover (I have read excepts in anthologies, and secondary sources, of course). I was […]
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