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Sub-Ideal Moral Decisions
Thought Experiment: A nuclear missile is heading towards one of two major cities. An agent -- let us a say a government official -- is faced with the following two options.
(1) Deflect the missile ...
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Are ethics subjective? [closed]
I made a claim that ethics are completely subjective; that there is no one correct answer to a question in the form of:
Is insert activity or behaviour here ethical or not?
It was suggested that I ...
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Should we not talk about ethics according to Wittgenstein?
Wittgenstein says in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus:
6.4 All propositions are of equal value.
6.41 The sense of the world must lie outside the world. In the world
everything is as it is ...
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Is Camus 'Outsider' an argument for, or a critique of existentialism?
I've read Camus 'Outsider' twice. And have seen it acted out in the theatre.
I do not think I understand it, though I can admire Camus prose style.
Its often taken as canonical in existentialist ...
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Corporations can spend, but can they speak?
The US Supreme Court has ruled that the act of spending money (buying political ads) is a form of speech, or, a speech act (political speech). The implication being, of course, that political ...
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Who applies the pessimistic induction to moral “truths”?
I happened upon the term pessimistic induction (the history of science is a "graveyard" of once empirically successful theories whose central terms have been found not to refer) on this page and ...
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Does the existence of psychopaths pose a problem for moral realists who argue we have a moral intuition?
Psychopathy is not universally agreed upon in psychology, but among some there is a consensus that psychopathy is highly heritable, and that psychopaths are lacking in conscience and empathy. ...
