moral realism
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoralandrealism
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moral
adjective
uk/ˈmɒr.əl/us/ˈmɔːr.əl/
relating to the standards of good or bad behaviour, fairness, honesty, etc. that each person believes in, rather than ...
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realism
noun[U]
uk/ˈrɪə.lɪ.zəm/us/ˈriː.ə-/
a way of thinking and acting based on facts and what is possible, rather than on hopes for things that are unlikely ...
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(Definition ofmoralandrealismfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The literature on desert needs a robust theory of moral responsibility, one that rests on a strongmoralrealismwith good defences against determinism.
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Granted, each version assumes the truth ofmoralrealism.
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Chapter 1 advancesmoralrealismand rejects anti-realist alternatives.
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The forms ofmoralrealismalluded to in the text allow that some ethical truths may be unknowable.
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Chapter 7 deals with ethical and metathical issues in religion, including the connection between theism andmoralrealism.
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Other forms ofmoralrealismmay hold that it is not conceptually possible for ethical truth to transcend our capacity to discover it.
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Dworkin's own recent account of moral truth, however, is controversial-perhaps no less so thanmoralrealismitself.
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And to get to that conclusion one might invoke some kind ofmoralrealismor cognitivist moral epistemology which shows the superiority of ' our' way of thinking of these things.
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Himma persistently endeavors to draw my attention to points (such as the nonequivalence ofmoralrealism and moral objectivism) that were in fact repeatedly emphasized in my article.
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Some forms ofmoralrealismare compatible with some degree of meta-ethical relativism.
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However, on certain versions of the meta-ethical view calledmoralrealism, moral facts are both descriptive and prescriptive at the same time.
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One study found that 56% of philosophers accept or lean towardsmoralrealism(28%: anti-realism; 16%: other).
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However, neithermoralrealismnor ethical non-naturalism is essential to the view; most ethical intuitionists simply happen to hold those views as well.
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Withinmoralrealism, the two main subdivisions are ethical naturalism and ethical non-naturalism.
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He is a leading defender of a non-naturalisticmoralrealism, holding that moral statements are not reducible to natural terms.
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This form ofmoralrealismis the view that moral facts are facts about nature.
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This makes ethical naturalism a definist form ofmoralrealism, which is in turn a form of cognitivism.
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This makes ethical non-naturalism a non-definist form ofmoralrealism, which is in turn a form of cognitivism.
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