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Feb 1, 2013 · Even the apparently uncontroversial partial definition of morality as a “code” or “set of rules” excludes the view that morality is a sense or intuition of what is required and permitted ...
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- 3.1 Morality as linked to norms for responses to behavior
- 3.2 Morality as linked to advocacy of a code
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As one gives more substance and detail to the general notions of endorsement, rationality, and the relevant conditions under which rational people would endorse morality, one moves further from providing a definition of morality in the normative sense, and closer to providing an actual moral theory. And a similar claim is true for definitions of mo...
Expressivists about morality do not take there to be any objective content to morality that could underwrite what we above called “the substantive definition”. Rather, they explicitly recognize the existence of significant variation in what rules and ideals different people put forward as morality in the normative sense. And they doubt that this va...
One way of understanding the notion of endorsement is as advocacy. Advocating a code is a second- or third-personal matter, since one advocates a code to others. Moreover, it is consistent with advocating a code, that one does not plan on following that code oneself. Just as asserting something one believes to be false still counts as asserting it,...
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consequentialism | ethics: natural law tradition | Hobbes, Thomas: moral and political philosophy | Kant, Immanuel | Mill, John Stuart | moral realism | moral relativism | moral skepticism
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Apr 17, 2002 · The topic of this entry is not—at least directly—moral theory; rather, it is the definition of morality. Moral theories are large and complex things; definitions are not. The question of the definition of morality is the question of identifying the target of moral theorizing. Identifying this target enables us to see different moral ...
- Bernard Gert, Joshua Gert
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tion, the term “morality” is. to be understoodstrictly in a descriptive sense. As Bernard Gert. y” in the descriptive sense refers to a code ofco. duct actually endorsed by an individual or g. sense refers to “a code of conduct that, given specified conditions, would be put forward by all. d groups have end.
Feb 26, 2013 · The study of morality was once central to social thought and a primary concern of philosophers throughout recorded history. From the dawn of the social sciences, morality was considered a primary aspect of human relations; for those writing around Adam Smith’s time, the words “social” and “moral” were often used interchangeably.
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Nov 12, 2018 · Secondly, people are not moral in and of th emselves: Morality is a matter of being trained and educated, and much of that traini ng is by means of “force” (socialization), example, and authority.
