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Mar 14, 2009 · MacIntyre argues that with modernity there came a vast fragmentation and instrumentalisation of moral life. It has increasingly been matched in moral philosophy.
Nov 21, 2019 · The BBC today reveals the findings of a major new survey exploring the moral framework of the UK in 2019 offering an unprecedented insight into the morals and values of the British population.
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Murder is wrong. This is not just a matter of subjective personal preference, it’s an objective fact. That means if it’s true for me, then it’s true for you and for everyone else too. And if someone claims that murder is OK, then they’re mistaken. This is the way many of us tend to think and talk about many moral issues, not just murder. We refer t...
I believe there are three major problems with this commonsense view of morality. First: it’s wrong. I’m not convinced there is any objective source of morality. I’ve spent a lot of time looking for one but am yet to find anything that isn’t deeply unconvincing. Even if you believe there is a divine moral source that can dictate absolute right from ...
So to respond to the greatest moral challenge of our time, we need to seriously rethink morality itself. The best way to think about morality is as a cultural tool that we humans invented to help us live and work together in social situations. After all, we each have our interests that we want to pursue. They vary from individual to individual, but...
May 4, 2021 · Some philosophers have argued “yes”: beliefs can be morally wrong independent from whether they are supported by good evidence. I’ll discuss two cases that some have taken to support this conclusion. One stems from the unsavoury nature of certain types of demographic profiling.
In short, our moral relation to human suffering is more urgent when we're caught up in its causes or effects. Young contends that we're responsible for structural injustice.
- Kieran Setiya
Are the demands of morality impossible? Are we all doomed to fail? Frankly, I was not sure I wanted to know. It turns out that this bold, methodically argued book delivers fully on the promise of its threatening cover. Tessman's thesis is that there are some things that morality requires us to do but that we just cannot do.
At the point that seemed at first to be a moral impasse, the way for moral intellectual practice is in fact wide open.
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