THE QUESTION OF MORAL ONTOLOGY

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Nolan
Keyword(s):  
Moral Ontology

Religion, aesthetics and moral ontology

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Ezzy
Keyword(s):  
Moral Ontology

Good’s Irreducibility: The Discordancy Argument and Aristotle

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-180
Author(s):  
Aaron Morgan Anderson
Keyword(s):  
William Lane Craig ◽  
Ethical Intuitionism ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
Aristotle's Ethics ◽  
Moral Ontology ◽  
Basic Insight

In this paper, I argue that the good is irreducible. I use the term ‘irreducible’ in a way similar to but not identical to G. E. Moore’s usage of ‘indefinable’ as found in Principia Ethica. By ‘irreducible,’ I mean that something cannot be simplified into something other than itself. For my purposes, this is to say that the good is sui generis and cannot be accounted for by anything other than itself. Inspired by what I take to be Moore’s basic insight, I develop my own argument pertaining to the uniqueness of the good. My argument goes partially beyond intuition, and hence beyond Moore, by means of applied intuitions (counterexamples). In the penultimate section, I apply the Discordancy Argument to Aristotle’s ethics, arguing that it is an attestation to the general virtue thesis that what is good does not admit of a reducible deduction. Broadly speaking, I consider the Discordancy Argument and general ethical intuitionism as justification for the Aristotelian idea that good actions are found in concrete particulars and not reducible abstractions, hinting at Aristotle’s affinity for ethical intuitionism. Furthermore, a recent debate surrounding moral ontology (per William Lane Craig and dissenters) is deemed obsolete.

Naturalizing Humanity: Genealogy and the Politics of Storytelling in Boccaccio'sDecameron

2009 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-388
Author(s):  
Roberto Farneti
Keyword(s):  
Human Values ◽  
History Of ◽  
Moral Ontology

AbstractIn his literary masterwork, theDecameron, Boccaccio undertakes a thorough examination of human values along the lines he had drawn in his history of the origins of the gods, theGenealogie deorum gentilium libri, on the assumption that values, in a world emptied of the gods, retain a similarly normative and aggregating function. To Boccaccio both gods and values are transient items in a moral ontology that acknowledges only one set of perennial items: natural impulses and dispositions. Boccaccio adopts a particular stance towards the emergence of values: genealogy is, for him, a distinctive way to examine the processes whereby beliefs, attitudes, and values come about.

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