Metaethical Principles, Meta-Prescriptions, and Moral Theories
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Terrance C. McConnell, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Ethicists in the normative tradition seem to believe that moral knowledge is possible. Yet there is widespread disagreement about what the fundamental principle of morality is. Because of the presence of conflicting theories of rightness, it is important to ask how moral theories can be established and refuted.
Metaethical Principles, Meta-Prescriptions, and Moral Theories
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Additional Information
- Publication
- American Philosophical Quarterly 22(4) (October 1985), pp. 299-309
- Language: English
- Date: 1985
- Keywords
- moral knowledge, morality, moral theory, metaethical principles