Is a fundamental justification of morality possible?
(2006)Practical Philosophy
- Abstract
- Does morality need justification? And if yes, what kind of justification will do the proper job? Peter Danielson distinguishes between fundamental and non-fundamental justification. A fundamental justification is a justification of a realm that does not appeal to any of the concepts of that realm. In the case of morality this means a justification formulated in amoral or non-moral terms. A non-fundamental justification of morality, on the other hand, assumes some moral premise(s), and therefore assumes what is to be proven. Thus, a non-fundamental justification is really no justification at all. Or as Danielson puts it, non-fundamental justification ?begs the central question of ethical theory?.
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- author
- Fritzson, Fritz-Anton
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2006
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Danielson, Peter, Gauthier, David, Nozick, Robert, Moral science, Morallära
- language
- English
- id
- 1326667
- date added to LUP
- 2006-07-13 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2006-07-13 00:00:00
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