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Jezierski, Romuald. "Metaethics as Methodology of Normative Ethics." Dialectics and Humanism 13, no. 2 (1986): 97–107. https://doi.org/10.5840/dialecticshumanism1986132/331.

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Meawad, Stephen. "“Unethical” Ethics." Exchange 54, no. 1 (2025): 56–70. https://doi.org/10.1163/1572543x-05401001.

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Abstract This article accomplishes three tasks simultaneously: 1) It provides an analysis of the relationship between Coptic Orthodox Christianity and contemporary Western moral philosophy; 2) It assesses this relationship within the scope of metaethics and normative ethics, providing brief appraisals of deontology, consequentialism, and virtue ethics; and 3) It provides a more detailed analysis of Coptic Orthodoxy’s relationship to deontological ethics, suggesting that Copts sometimes risk exhibiting a pseudo-deontology: adherence to prescribed actions in emulation of moral exemplars but in a

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Forcehimes, Andrew T. "On L. W. Sumner’s “Normative Ethics and Metaethics”." Ethics 125, no. 4 (2015): 1142–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/680881.

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Protopapadakis, Evangelos D. "“Ethical Minefields” and the Voice of Common Sense: A Discussion with Julian Savulescu." Conatus 4, no. 1 (2019): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/cjp.19712.

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Theoretical ethics includes both metaethics (the meaning of moral terms) and normative ethics (ethical theories and principles). Practical ethics involves making decisions about every day real ethical problems, like decisions about euthanasia, what we should eat, climate change, treatment of animals, and how we should live. It utilizes ethical theories, like utilitarianism and Kantianism, and principles, but more broadly a process of reflective equilibrium and consistency to decide how to act and be.

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Protopapadakis, Evangelos D., and Julian Savulescu. "Ethical Minefields and the Voice of Common Sense: A Discussion with Julian Savulescu." Conatus - Journal of Philosophy 4, no. 1 (2019): 125–33. https://doi.org/10.12681/cjp.19712.

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Theoretical ethics includes both metaethics (the meaning of moral terms) and normative ethics (ethical theories and principles). Practical ethics involves making decisions about every day real ethical problems, like decisions about euthanasia, what we should eat, climate change, treatment of animals, and how we should live. It utilizes ethical theories, like utilitarianism and Kantianism, and principles, but more broadly a process of reflective equilibrium and consistency to decide how to act and be.

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Schaab, Janis David. "Kantian Constructivism and the Sources of Normativity." Kant Yearbook 14, no. 1 (2022): 97–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/kantyb-2022-0005.

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Abstract While it is uncontroversial that Kantian constructivism has implications for normative ethics, its status as a metaethical view has been contested. In this article, I provide a characterisation of metaethical Kantian constructivism that withstands these criticisms. I start by offering a partial defence of Sharon Street’s practical standpoint characterisation. However, I argue that this characterisation, as presented by Street, is ultimately incomplete because it fails to demonstrate that the claims of Kantian constructivism constitute a distinctive contribution to metaethics. I then t

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Byron, Michael. "Right-Making, Reference, and Reduction." Disputatio 6, no. 39 (2014): 139–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/disp-2014-0010.

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Abstract The causal theory of reference (CTR) provides a well-articulated and widely-accepted account of the reference relation. On CTR the reference of a term is fixed by whatever property causally regulates the competent use of that term. CTR poses a metaethical challenge to realists by demanding an account of the properties that regulate the competent use of normative predicates. CTR might pose a challenge to ethical theorists as well. Long (2012) argues that CTR entails the falsity of any normative ethical theory. First-order theory attempts to specify what purely descriptive property is a

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Hart, Jr., Noah. "A Common Ethical Foundation for Gobalization: Metaethics, Normative Ethics and Applied Ethics." International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review 3, no. 11 (2009): 49–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1833-1882/cgp/v03i11/51793.

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Sergeeva, T. "Transparency, meta-ethics, normative ethics and applied ethics as elements in the management of the organization." Bulletin of Science and Practice 4, no. 8 (2018): 257–61. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1345292.

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In this article transparency merits and demerits are considered, concepts of metaethics, standard ethics, applied ethics reveal, their role in the management of the modern organization is considered. In conclusion, it is concluded that successful implementation of the strategy of a balance between “transparency” and information about the activities of the organization is necessary. This is one way to build the trust of employees, existing and potential customers, partners and even competitors. Transparency is not directly related to better corporate governance.

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Silverstein, Matthew. "Inescapability and Normativity." Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 6, no. 3 (2017): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v6i3.67.

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When we make ethical claims, we invoke a kind of objective authority. A familiar worry about our ethical practices is that this invocation of authority involves a mistake. This worry was perhaps best captured by John Mackie, who argued that the fabric of the world contains nothing so queer as objective authority and thus that all our ethical claims are false. Kantians such as Christine Korsgaard and David Velleman offer accounts of the objectivity of ethics that do without the controversial realist assumptions which gives rise to Mackie’s skepticism. They contend that our ethical claims correc

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Couture, Jocelyne, and Kai Nielsen. "Afterword: Whither Moral Philosophy?" Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume 21 (1995): 273–337. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.1995.10717441.

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Most of the essays collected here are essays in metaethics seeking in exacting and interesting ways to resolve problems raised by the familiar options in metaethics we outlined in our Introduction. Richard Brandt, for example, forcefully argues, going much against the at least modestly holistic grain of our time, for a foundationalism (noncognitivist though it be) which would be foundational in both metaethics and normative ethics. R.M. Hare makes a brief but systematic defense, which is both spirited and clear, of his prescriptivism (a species of what we, following tradition, have called ‘non

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Malik, Mohammad Manzoor. "Heritage of Islamic Ethics and Contemporary Issues A Call for Relevantization." Journal of Islam in Asia (E-ISSN: 2289-8077) 8 (February 2, 2012): 295–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.31436/jia.v8i0.238.

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This study addresses the subject of Islamic ethics from definitional and disciplinary perspectives. It highlights the need for relevantization of Islamic ethics to contemporary issues in a systematic manner which, in turn, calls for development of Islamic ethics as a complete discipline with ability to meet all types of challenges: conceptual, practical, normative, applicative, etc. Regarding the definitional issue, different from and more expansive than the traditional understanding of al-ākhlāq, the researcher argues that a proper definition of ethics should include ethically relevant habits

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Kosiewicz, Jerzy. "The Ethical Context of Justifying Anti-Doping Attitudes: Critical Reflections." Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research 53, no. 1 (2011): 76–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10141-011-0024-6.

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The Ethical Context of Justifying Anti-Doping Attitudes: Critical ReflectionsThe reflections presented in the paper are not normative (in general, it can be said, that they do not create moral values and demands). The presented reflections particularly stress the sense, essence, meaning, and identity of sport in the context of moral demands. A disquisition pointing out that sports and sport-related doping can be situated beyond the moral good and evil must be considered precisely as metaethical, and leads in a consciously controversial way to fully defining the identity of sport in general, as

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Baylis, Françoise. "Rebuttal: Expert Ethics Testimony." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 28, no. 3 (2000): 240–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2000.tb00666.x.

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According to Giles Scofield, ethicists can provide expert testimony in descriptive ethics and metaethics, but not normative ethics. Lawrence Schneiderman appears to disagree with this view, and presumably believes that it is appropriate for an expert witness in ethics to provide ethics testimony in all three areas. I draw this conclusion from several claims made in his commentary which aim to show that we would be contending experts if both invited to testify on a case involving claims about futile medical treatment. This disagreement aside, taken together both commentaries suggest that my tes

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Perilla, Julian. "Rethinking Nietzschean Constitutivism: An Ethics of Value." Journal of Nietzsche Studies 56, no. 1 (2025): 21–48. https://doi.org/10.5325/jnietstud.56.1.0021.

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Abstract This article attempts a reconstruction of Nietzsche’s metaethics through a constitutivist lens. It examines the relationship between life’s meaningfulness and our distinctive way of valuing to offer a value-based version of constitutivism—a value constitutivism, as called in this article. For Nietzsche, valuing has a characteristic function or aim, namely, to give life meaning; good values are simply those that perform that function well. This version of Nietzschean constitutivism has both interpretive and substantive upshots. Mainly, it clarifies the general normative structure of Ni

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Kosiewicz, Jerzy. "The Ethical and Legal Context of Justifying Anti-Doping Attitudes." Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research 62, no. 1 (2014): 47–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pcssr-2014-0011.

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Abstract The reflections presented in the paper are not normative (in general, it can be said, that they do not create moral values and demands). The presented reflections particularly stress the sense, essence, meaning, and identity of sport in the context of moral demands. A disquisition pointing out that sports and sport-related doping can be situated beyond the moral good and evil must be considered precisely as metaethical, and leads in a consciously controversial way to fully defining the identity of sport in general, as well as the identity of particular sports disciplines. These reflec

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Halbig, Christoph. "'Can a Philosophical Justification of Ethics Be Autonomous While Acknowledging the Role of God in Grounding Moral Facts?'." European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 8, no. 3 (2016): 93–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v8i3.1688.

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Autonomy and ethics are related to each other in complex ways. The paper starts by distinguishing and characterizing three basic dimensions of this relation. It proceeds by arguing for the compatibility of moral realism with a due respect for human autonomy. Nevertheless, supernaturalist moral realism seems to pose a special challenge for the autonomy of ethics as a self-standing normative realm. The paper ends with some considerations on the role of divine authority both in metaethics and in the general theory of value.

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Zadroga, Adam. "Business Ethics in Poland: A metatheoretical analysis." Annales. Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym 20, no. 8 (2017): 19–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1899-2226.20.8.02.

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From the beginning of the 1990s, a considerable interest in business ethics has been observed in Poland. It seems that the legacy of Polish researchers concerned with this academic discipline is already rich enough, and at the same time so diverse, that it is worth making an attempt to systematise it, exploring and appropriately naming the basic approaches to deal with business ethics in Poland. The carried-out analyses allowed to determine the following leading methods in the formal aspect: firstly, metaethics of business ethics; secondly, business ethics practised in the framework of various

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Cekic, Nenad. "Naturalistic fallacy and open question argument: One century of debate." Theoria, Beograd 51, no. 3 (2008): 29–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/theo0803029c.

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Maybe the most famous and used notion in relatively short history of metaethics is so called 'naturalistic fallacy'. This term was for the first time used by G. E. Moore in his Prinicipia Ethica. Idea of 'naturalistic fallacy' is based upon 'open-question argument'. Discussion of the scope and real results obtained by this argument is open even in metaethics at the beginning of the 21st Century. Today it is clear that open question is not a proof of invalidity of naturalism or any kind of cognitivism. Still, open-question argument is a very useful tool both in metaethics and in normative theor

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Darwall, Stephen. "Sentiment, care, and respect." Theory and Research in Education 8, no. 2 (2010): 153–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477878510368618.

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Michael Slote proposes a rethinking of moral education from the perspective of a normative ethics of care combined with his distinctive sentimentalist metaethics. I raise questions concerning the role of empathy in Slote’s picture and argue that empathy is related to respect and sentiments through which we hold ourselves and one another accountable. Care in the sense of benevolent concern is a fundamentally different attitude from (recognition) respect: whereas the former is focused on its object’s well-being, the latter responds to a person’s dignity and authority to make claims and demands o

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Bertolini, Simona. "Roman Ingarden: Phenomenology, Responsibility and the Ontological Foundations of Morality." Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica 20, no. 1 (2019): 82–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/maes.2019.1.04.

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Even if Roman Ingarden did not develop an ethics stricto sensu, and although his philosophy cannot be immediately associated with a “practical turn” in phenomenology, his investigation of the essence of the real world brought him to consider the nature of man and the ontological conditions of possibility of his morally oriented actions. Without expressing normative prescriptions, and maintaining his observations in the field of eidetic description, the author felt the need to provide a foundation for ethics, inasmuch as he strived to both highlight ethical phenomenon evidence in material ontol

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Pedersen, Johnnie R. R. "Normative Ethics: an Armchair Discipline?" Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 56, no. 2 (2019): 151–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/eps201956235.

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This paper discusses a challenge to normative ethics motivated by experimental philosophy. Experimental philosophers object to the perceived “armchair” or a priori nature of philosophy, claiming it should rather be empirical or naturalistic. The paper investigates the application of this claim to normative ethics. Dubbing the application of the experimental philosophers’ contention to normative ethics “the Armchair Claim,” I distinguish descriptive and normative versions of this challenge, and consider their merits as comments on the method of normative ethics (descriptive versions), and as co

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Kocarev, Ljupco, and Jasna Koteska. "Digital Me Ontology and Ethics." Futures of Education, Culture and Nature - Learning to Become 1 (January 21, 2022): 15–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/fecun.v1i.130229.

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This paper addresses ontology and ethics of an AI agent called digital me. We define digital me as an autonomous, decision-making, and learning agent, representing an individual and having practically immortal life. It is assumed that digital me is equipped with the big-five personality model, ensuring that it provides a model of some aspects of a strong AI: consciousness, free will, and intentionality. As computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans, digital me can judge the personality of the individual represented by the digital me, other individuals’ per

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Daryono, Daryono, and Suparman Syukur. "The Moral Philosophy of Capitalism In the View of the Javanese Islamic Trade Ethos." Jurnal THEOLOGIA 31, no. 2 (2021): 165–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.21580/teo.2020.31.2.6862.

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The results of this paper were based on library research which aimed to understand capitalism in terms of Javanese Muslim trade ethos based on the work of experts. On the one hand, there was a mismatch between the economic system of capitalism and the ethos for the objectification of Islam in commerce and the results were suitable for world views and cultural life. Java was in a postcolonial state on the other hand. The method of analyzing its understanding was through historical and normative social as well as normative ethics and metaethics. The analysis resulted in three characteristics of

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ARRUDA, CAROLINE T. "Why Moral Status Matters for Metaethics." Journal of the American Philosophical Association 4, no. 4 (2018): 471–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/apa.2018.15.

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AbstractI show that an overlooked feature of our moral life—moral status—provides a route to vindicating naturalist moral realism in much the same way that the Humean theory of motivation and judgment internalism are used to undermine it. Moral status presents two explanatory burdens for metaethical views. First, a given view must provide an ecumenical explanation of moral status, which does not depend on the truth of its metaethical claims (say, that there are mind-independent facts about moral status). Second, its explanation must be consistent with persistent normative ethical disagreement

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Allegri, Francesco. "Pluralism and Relativism in Ethics Starting from W. K. Frankena." Kultura i Wartości 38 (December 31, 2024): 77–88. https://doi.org/10.17951/kw.2024.38.77-88.

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This article connects pluralism and relativism in ethics through the path of a classic scholar of 20th century moral philosophy: W. K. Frankena. In normative ethics Frankena defends a pluralist perspective, because in his theory of obligation there is a plurality of basic moral principles (exactly two) that may conflict with one another and there is no strict order of priority for resolving conflicts between them. His attitude towards ethical relativism is, however, negative, because in his view all three version of relativism in the moral sphere (descriptive, metaethical, and normative) are q

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Lederman, Zohar, and Benjamin Capps. "One health ethics: a response to pragmatism." Journal of Medical Ethics 46, no. 9 (2020): 632–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2019-105859.

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Johnson and Degeling have recently enquired whether one health (OH) requires a comprehensive normative framework, concluding that such a framework, while not necessary, may be helpful. In this commentary, we provide a context for this debate, and describe how pragmatism has been predominant in the OH literature. We nevertheless argue that articulating a comprehensive normative theory to ground OH practice might clear existing vagueness and provide stronger guidance in relevant health dilemmas. A comprehensive theory will also be needed eventually to ground notions such as universal good. We, t

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Omarova, Almira. "THE NATURE OF NORMATIVE MORAL JUDGMENTS." Adam alemi 4, no. 86 (2020): 129–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.48010/2020.4/1999-5849.14.

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Moral judgements have been a crucial subject-matter of a discussion in the domain of normativity. Many thinkers argue moral judgments are necessarily action-guiding, which prescribe what one ought to do and what ought to be the case. The moral statement “killing is wrong” is prescriptive and locates in the purview of first-order ethical questions. Moral realists widely accept that moral judgments represent propositions, therefore they are subject to truth and false conditions. Thus, moral conclusions can be derived logically from valid premises. How to derive the conclusion “killing is wrong”?

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Klenk, Michael. "Charting Moral Psychology’s Significance for Bioethics: Routes to Bioethical Progress, its Limits, and Lessons from Moral Philosophy." Diametros 17, no. 64 (2020): 36–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.33392/diam.1520.

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Empirical moral psychology is sometimes dismissed as normatively insignificant because it plays no decisive role in settling ethical disputes. But that conclusion, even if it is valid for normative ethics, does not extend to bioethics. First, in contrast to normative ethics, bioethics can legitimately proceed from a presupposed moral framework. Within that framework, moral psychology can be shown to play four significant roles: it can improve bioethicists’ understanding of (1) the decision situation, (2) the origin and legitimacy of their moral concepts, (3) efficient options for implementing

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Champagne, Marc. "Axiomatizing umwelt normativity." Sign Systems Studies 39, no. 1 (2011): 9–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2011.39.1.01.

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Prompted by the thesis that an organism’s umwelt possesses not just a descriptive dimension, but a normative one as well, some have sought to annex semiotics with ethics. Yet the pronouncements made in this vein have consisted mainly in rehearsing accepted moral intuitions, and have failed to concretely further our knowledge of why or how a creature comes to order objects in its environment in accordance with axiological charges of value or disvalue. For want of a more explicit account, theorists writing on the topic have relied almost exclusively on semiotic insights about perception original

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Majumder, Mary Anderlik. "The Roles of Ethicists in Managed Care Litigation." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 33, no. 2 (2005): 264–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2005.tb00492.x.

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In the lead article in this symposium issue, Edward Imwinkelried follows other scholars in distinguishing among three types of tasks for ethicists serving as expert witnesses: (1) descriptive (e.g., addressing the existence and content of relevant codes of ethics or guidelines, or the correspondence, or lack of correspondence, between relevant codes or guidelines and the parties’ practices); (2) metaethical (e.g., clarifying concepts, critiquing the logic of a particular argument or position); and (3) normative (e.g., addressing what the standard or practice should be). He finds agreement that

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Ball, Stephen W. "Economic Equality: Rawls versus Utilitarianism." Economics and Philosophy 2, no. 2 (1986): 225–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478061500002644.

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Perhaps the most salient feature of Rawls's theory of justice (Rawls, 1971) which at once attracts supporters and repels critics is its apparent egalitarian conclusion as to how economic goods are to be distributed. Indeed, many of Rawls's sympathizers may find this result intuitively appealing, and regard it as Rawls's enduring contribution to the topic of economic justice, despite technical deficiencies in Rawls's contractarian, decision-theoretic argument for it (see, e.g., Nagel, 1973, p. 234) which occupy the bulk of the critical literature. Rawls himself, having proposed a “coherence” th

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Kasavin, Ilya T. "Virtue Epistemology: on the 40th Anniversary of the Turn in Analytical Philosophy." Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 56, no. 3 (2019): 6–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/eps201956341.

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The article summarizes the main developments in virtue epistemology and reacts to the challenges faced by the discipline. This new trend in analytic epistemology emerges as a synthesis of a number of directions (metaethics, social epistemology, metaphilosophy and experimental philosophy). On the one hand, it attempts to overcome some weaknesses of classical epistemology and, on the other hand, it performs this on the same basis, retaining the classical understanding of knowledge as justified true belief. It was dubbed “virtue epistemology” since it focuses on restoration of the normative appro

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Tafani, Daniela. "Kant, l'assassino alla porta e il giudizio morale comune." Salesianum 86, no. 4 (2024): 688–714. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14589401.

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In 1797, Kant asserted a thesis that Benjamin Constant had polemically attributed to a German philosopher: we are not allowed to lie, not even to a murderer who asks us whether a friend of ours who is being pursued by him has taken refuge in our house. Kant's answer to the dilemma of the murderer at the door, which rules out the possibility of any exceptions to the duty of truthfulness, seems counterintuitive and difficult to reconcile with Kant's thesis that common moral judgement is reliable. For Kant, the task of the moral philosopher is a conceptual analysis of existing morality, and philo

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Prokofiev, Andrei V. "On the Role of Scientific Evidence in Normative Ethics (the Case of the Debunking of Deontological Principles)." Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 61, no. 2 (2024): 157–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/eps202461231.

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The paper deals with the questions of whether naturalization of ethical theory is possible and how radical it should be. The answer to these questions depends largely on the scientific explanations of the process of moral evaluation. The author concentrates on a moderate version of naturalization, which involves merely correcting the conclusions of normative ethics by appealing to scientific evidence. A good example of moderate naturalization is the project of debunking deontological moral principles of J. Green. From J. Green’s point of view, the most important of such principles (“it is impe

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Akabayashi, Akira, Eisuke Nakazawa, and Nancy S. Jecker. "What are considered ‘good facts’?" Journal of Medical Ethics 45, no. 7 (2019): 473–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2018-105333.

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In the January edition of the Journal of Medical Ethics, Fujita and Tabuchi (hereafter, Authors) responded that we misunderstood the ‘facts’ in our previous article. Our article’s method was twofold. First, it appealed to normative analysis and publicly accessible materials, and second, it targeted a policy-making approach to public funding. We specifically did not focus on the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application or induced pluripotent stem stock projects. The Authors raised five criticisms, including transparency of our interpretation of public funding policy. We reply to these criti

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Beauchamp, Tom L. "David Hume’s Universalism of Moral Precepts." Dialogue and Universalism 32, no. 1 (2022): 33–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/du20223213.

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This article presents an original interpretation of David Hume’s eighteenth-century writings in moral philosophy as universalistic and normative, and not as merely psychological, metaethical, empirical, and the like, which has been common in many interpretations of Hume. Whether his views should or should not be regarded as a type of general moral theory such as utilitarianism is not considered, although I argue that Hume is deeply committed to a form of virtue ethics. I also argue that Hume sees the fundamentals of morality as a human phenomenon that is universally applicable to, and universa

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WONG, Wai-ying. "生命倫理之方法論的考察". International Journal of Chinese & Comparative Philosophy of Medicine 3, № 4 (2001): 5–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.24112/ijccpm.31409.

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LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.在後設倫理學以至生命倫理學上，一直存在著脉絡主義與原則倫理之爭辧。脉絡主義者解決道德問題的方式，是首先審視個別事件發生的脉絡細節，作出道德判斷後再將之用於其他相類事件；原則倫理者卻試圖將一般的道德原則應用於特殊事件上。前者可視為一種「自下而上」的方式，後者則可名為「自上而下」。很多道德哲學家都指出這兩種進路各有利弊。R.M. Hare藉著引介兩層道德思維結構，來論證上述二者其實並不矛盾，相反地，它們在不同的道德思維層面，分別扮演重要角色。在本文中，我嘗試檢視Hare的論証是否成立，又是否會在實踐上引生另外的問題。最後，我將指出，中國的儒家倫理中的「經」、「權」觀念，如何可以幫助解決詠絡主義與原則倫理的問題。There has been controversy between particularism and generalism in metaethics in general and bioethics in particular. Particularists (e.g. contextualists) attempt to solve moral problems by firstly working with particular case

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Moberger, Victor. "Hume’s Dictum and Metaethics." Philosophical Quarterly 70, no. 279 (2019): 328–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqz058.

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Abstract This paper explores the metaethical ramifications of a coarse-grained criterion of property identity, sometimes referred to as Hume's dictum. According to Hume's dictum, properties are identical if and only if they are necessarily co-extensive. Assuming the supervenience of the normative on the natural, this criterion threatens the non-naturalist view that there are instantiable normative properties which are distinct from natural properties. In response, non-naturalists typically point to various counterintuitive implications of Hume's dictum. The paper clarifies this strategy and de

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BONELLA, ALCINO EDUARDO. "Divine Command Theory and Metaethics." Revista Brasileira de Filosofia da Religião 2, no. 1 (2018): 162–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.26512/2358-82842015e17383.

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I will outline an application of metaethics to the debate about Euthyphro's dilemma and divine command theory (DCT). Metaethics elucidates how we should understand what are objective moral judgments and moral truths. I argue that the normative content of morality does not depend on God’s approval/command. This is so because moral objectivity does not depend on any approval and command, what I try to show by the nature and the logic of evaluative/normative concepts (good, bad, right, wrong, ought to etc.). Other aspects related to DCT and morality are briefly debated.

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Street, Sharon. "What is Constructivism in Ethics and Metaethics?" Philosophy Compass 5, no. 5 (2010): 363–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00280.x.

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Kratt, Dale. "The Secular Moral Project and the Moral Argument for God: A Brief Synopsis History." Religions 14, no. 8 (2023): 982. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel14080982.

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This article provides an overview of the history of what is termed the secular moral project by providing a synopsis of the history of the moral argument for God’s existence and the various historical processes that have contributed to the secularization of ethics. I argue that three key thinkers propel the secular moral project forward from the middle of the 19th century into the 20th century: John Stuart Mill, whose ethical thinking in Utilitarianism serves as the background to all late 19th century secular ethical thinking, Henry Sidgwick, who, in the Methods, indisputably establishes the s

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Goldin, Owen. "Environmental Education And Metaethics." Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 8, no. 2-3 (2004): 185–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568535042690844.

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AbstractContrā Dale Jamieson, the study of the metaethical foundations of environmental ethics may well lead students to a more environmentally responsible way of life. For although metaethics is rarely decisive in decision making and action, there are two kinds of circumstances in which it can play a crucial role in our practical decisions. First, decisions that have unusual features do not summon habitual ethical reactions, and hence invite the application of ethical precepts that the study of metaethics and ethical theory isolate and clarify. Second, there are times in which the good of oth

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Ambrozy, Marian. "Regarding the intersection of metaethics and applied ethics." XLinguae 13, no. 3 (2020): 255–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.18355/xl.2020.13.03.21.

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Light, Andrew. "Contemporary Environmental Ethics From Metaethics to Public Philosophy." Metaphilosophy 33, no. 4 (2002): 426–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9973.00238.

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Seddon, Fred. "Rejoinder to Michael Huemer, "On Behalf of Ethical Intuitionism" (Fall 2007): Neglecting Rand's Metaethics." Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 9, no. 1 (2007): 185–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/41560354.

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Abstract Fred Seddon answers Michael Huemer's reply, focusing on two central issues in ethics: foundationalism and relativism. On the latter, he argues that Huemer neglects Rand's metaethics and her relational notion of the good.

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Seddon, Fred. "Rejoinder to Michael Huemer, "On Behalf of Ethical Intuitionism" (Fall 2007): Neglecting Rand's Metaethics." Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 9, no. 1 (2007): 185–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jaynrandstud.9.1.0185.

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Abstract Fred Seddon answers Michael Huemer's reply, focusing on two central issues in ethics: foundationalism and relativism. On the latter, he argues that Huemer neglects Rand's metaethics and her relational notion of the good.

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Suikkanen, Jussi. "Metaethics and the Nature of Properties." Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 98, no. 1 (2024): 113–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/arisup/akae007.

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Abstract This paper explores the connection between two philosophical debates concerning the nature of properties. The first, metaethical debate is about whether normative properties are ordinary natural properties or some unique kind of non-natural properties. The second, metaphysical debate is about whether properties are sets of objects, transcendent or immanent universals, or sets of tropes. I argue that nominalism, transcendent realism and immanent realism are not neutral frameworks for the metaethical debate but instead lead to either metaethical naturalism or non-naturalism. We can ther

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ÇOBANOĞLU, SACİDE. "THE ETHICAL VALUES OF BEING GENEROUS AND STEALING IN THE COMMENTARY OF BASMALAH BY HACI BEKTAŞ VELİ WITH METAETHIC THEORY OF FOLKLORE." Türk Kültürü ve HACI BEKTAŞ VELİ Araştırma Dergisi 105 (March 29, 2023): 97–127. http://dx.doi.org/10.34189/hbv.105.005.

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Developing technology in our age has opened the doors of a virtual-digital world to humanity. However, the negative effects of this development were seen in a short time. Tradition has been moved away and ethical values have begun to be lost. In order to bring the lost ethical values in Turkish society to new generations with a folkloric point of view, we have introduced Folklogical Metaethics Theory with an interdisciplinary approach in the fields of folklore, ethics and metaethics, and we have developed the method of Folklore Grounding Metaethics Analysis. The works of Hacı Bektaş Veli are v

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Wood, Allen W. "Attacking Morality: A Metaethical Project." Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume 21 (1995): 221–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.1995.10717439.

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Metaethics is the philosophical study of what morality is. It differs from ethical theory, which attempts to systematize (and possibly ground) moral judgments, and also from practical or applied ethics, which reflects on particular moral issues or problems. As it has been done in this century, metaethics has usually involved three interrelated projects: ametaphysicalinvestigation into the nature of moral facts and properties, asemanticinquiry into the meaning of moral assertions, and anepistemologicalaccount of the nature of moral knowledge. In all three areas, the questions raised by twentiet

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