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According to ethical objectivism, what a person ought to do is unconstrained by their epistemic situation – it depends on what is the case and not only on what the person knows, or what they are in a position to know, or their evidence, or similar.
There is an important difference, of course, between subjectivism and objectivism, but it is not one that excludes subjectivists from ascribing intrinsic or final value to things. My main aim here, however, is not to argue that these notions are available to subjectivists.
Abstract. How do lay individuals think about the objectivity of their ethical beliefs? Do they regard them as factual and objective, or as more subjective and opinion-based, and what might pre-dict such differences?
25 lut 2009 · Objectivism, in all its varieties, is unconvincing, and subjectivism, hedonic or emotive, is intellectually incredible and socially intolerable. No one is ethically content—except the dogmatist and the sceptic, who act willy nilly with the exponents of “might-cum-persuasion makes right.”
19 mar 2022 · Download book EPUB. Inventions in Sociology. Sal Restivo. 399 Accesses. Abstract. This chapter is based on a paper the author published in 1974 in which he introduced the idea of a “sociology of objectivity.”
prevalent assumption in metaethics is that people believe in moral objectivity. If this assumption were true then people should believe in the possibility of objective moral progress, objective moral knowledge, and objective moral error. We developed surveys to investigate whether these predictions hold.
18 wrz 2023 · Abstract. The chapter argues that to do justice to questions of objectivity that arise within and about moral discourse, we must take into account that this discourse is embedded within a somewhat conventionally regimented practice that comprises attempts to guide attitude and action by way of justifying, criticizing, validating, or excusing them. The appropriate condition of objectivity rules ...
