Naturalistic Explanations of Apodictic Moral Claims: Brentano’s Ethical Intuitionism and Nietzsche’s Naturalism

In this article (1) I extract from Brentano’s works (three) formal arguments against “genealogical explanations” of ethical claims. Such explanation can also be designated as “naturalism” (not his appellation); (2) I counter these arguments, by showing how genealogical explanations of even apodictic...

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Main Author: Moosa, Imtiaz (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2007
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2007, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 159-182
Further subjects:B Psychologism
B Evolutionary Ethics
B Darwinian ethics
B Nietzsche
B Intuitionism
B Moral Intuition
B Naturalism
B genetic fallacy
B Naturalistic Fallacy
B Brentano’s ethics
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