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Ross on the possibility of moral theory

✍ Scribed by Nancy Davis; Dale Jamieson

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1987
Tongue: English
Weight: 524 KB
Volume: 21
Category: Article
ISSN: 0022-5363
DOI: 10.1007/bf00140364

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✦ Synopsis

After Virtue ... reflects a very modern brand of philosophical nervousness (dare one say 'shrillness'?) about value judgments unless they are held true in virtue of some further thing beyond the conditions they arise out of. In fact ... no such further fictions are required for evaluative discourse to be in good order. The problem is not that we have too many concepts unconnected to clear teleologies, before persons any more than before art. The problem lies in handling this fact with tacL resourcefulness and skill. 1

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