Mackie (Ethics: inventing right and wrong, Penguin Books, London, 1977) famously argued for a moral error theory on the basis that objective moral values, if they existed, would be very queer entities. Unfortunately, his argument is very brief and it is not totally obvious from what he ...
Internalism isthe thesis that no fact about the world can provide reasons for action independently of desires and beliefs. ... Externalism is the thesis that reasons are to be identified with objective features of the world. What is literary externalism? Externalism in the philosophy of mindcon...
The terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever. This is what comes of a Protestant morality, that I, as a (thank God) typical Spaniard, fou...
Usually, intuitionism is presented as radically opposed to rationalistic views of morality according to which moral judgments are the outcome of explicit reasoning. What are the types of moral reasoning? Kohlberg identified three distinct levels of moral reasoning: preconventional, conventional, and pos...
Objectivism is the philosophy of Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum, more widely known by her pen-name, Ayn Rand (Born: February 2, 1905 - St. Petersburg, Russia; Died: March 6, 1982 - New York, New York). Often wrongly confused with libertarian politics, Objectivist political philosophy is in fa...
根据第三段“The stupidity of many “win-at-all-cost” coaches in youth sports is neatly matched by that of “play-my-kid-or-else” parents at the high-school level.(在青少年体育运动中,许多“不惜一切代价取胜”的教练的愚蠢与高中阶段“孩子必须参与”的父母的愚蠢完全一致)”结合文章主要就父母...
B. Objective. C. Doubtful. D. Hopeful. E. he distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.” Though morality is a rather subjective subject, there are some principles that are universal across all cultures found by an Oxford University study: “help your family, help your ...
is no longer opinion but knowledge. All political action has then in itself a directedness towards knowledge of the good: of the good life, or of the good society. For the good society is the complete political good. pp.10.)【政治哲学与哲学】“如果人们把获得有关好的生活、好的社会的知识...
Huxley urged us, “Do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable.” He also said, “It is wrong for a man to say he is certain of the objective truth of a proposition unless he can provide evidence which logically justifies that certainty.” ...
Social democracy based on welfare and the redistribution of social contributions is failing. The accumulation of wealth and the increase in inequalities are the two faces of Janus that social democracy has not been able to contain over the recent decades. In this context, it matters to discuss ...