Choosing normative concepts

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The concepts we use to value and prescribe (concepts like good, right, ought) are historically contingent, and we could have found ourselves with others. But what does it mean to say that some concepts are better than others for purposes of action-guiding and deliberation? What is it to choose between different normative conceptual frameworks?

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Full title :Choosing normative concepts / Matti Eklund.

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Publication Date:2017.
Edition:First edition

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9780191027659, 0191027650
oclc:on1000451993
LC Classification:BJ1458.3
Dewey Decimal:170

Ardent realism -- Alternative normative concepts -- Qualifications and objections -- Normative concepts -- Normative properties -- Presentationalism -- Being against what is plainly right -- Connections -- Thick concepts -- Some metaphilosophical issues -- Concluding remarks.

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Concepts Ethics Metaethics métaéthique Normativity (Ethics) Norme (Morale) Philosophie de l'esprit PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy PHILOSOPHY -- Social Philosophy of mind