A Working Definition of Moral Progress
Essentially everyone agrees that the outlawing of slavery, or the beginning of womens suffrage, or the defeat of Nazism constitute paradigmatic examples of moral progress in human history. But this consensus belies a deep division about the nature of moral progress more generally, a consequence of...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
[2017]
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Год: 2017, Том: 20, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 75-92 |
| Индексация IxTheo: | NCA Этика VA Философия ZB Социология ZD Психология |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Subjective well-being
B Ethics B Happiness B Moral Progress B Population welfare |
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| Итог: | Essentially everyone agrees that the outlawing of slavery, or the beginning of womens suffrage, or the defeat of Nazism constitute paradigmatic examples of moral progress in human history. But this consensus belies a deep division about the nature of moral progress more generally, a consequence of the foundational differences among and within normative traditions regarding the nature and scope of the moral in moral progress. This essay proposes that philosophers might nonetheless converge on a working definition of moral progress by identifying a proxy property that reliably tracks moral progress, but which does not purport to be coextensive with the philosophically-relevant property. The aim of this essay is to identify this proxy property with emerging empirical measures of population welfare, and to show why this indicator of moral progress can garner overlapping consensus from a variety of normative traditions. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8447 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10677-016-9753-2 |