Attacks on the Humean position have often been motivated by moral considerations: one does not need to have any desires whatsoever (not desires properly so-called, at any rate) in order to have a reason to do what is moral, according to some anti-Humeans, and so this particular reason to act, at least, is not in any way dependent upon desires (e.g., Schueler 1995).
I have a strong feeling that Prady wins, because he's more moral, according to Alicia.
Ms. Jones's turn as the title character, who has compromised her morals, according to Victorian sensibility, in order to ensure a happier life for her daughter, should make for a crackling good show.
For the point of moralizing is to recommend options on the basis of their natural properties and all the natural properties are non-moral according to the non-cognitivist.
In this respect, a system of morals, according to Reid, is not like a system of geometry "where the subsequent parts derive their evidence from the preceding" but "resembles more a system of botany … where the subsequent parts depend not for their evidence upon the preceding" (EAP V.ii: 281).
In the broadcast after the group's initial arrest this spring, government authorities referred to the video as an "obscene video clip that offended the public morals," according to the state-run Iranian Student News Agency.
Specifically, Opus Dei's position has been "to oppose sexual freedoms and promote conservative morals," according to an investigative report produced by the advocacy group Catholics for Choice The report further cites a study from sociologist Marco Burgos alleging Opus Dei interference in sex education programs in Honduras.
One way of investigating morals, according to Lindseth and Norberg [ 2] is to ask professionals to narrate situations involving regrettable conduct they have witnessed or participated in.
In recent years, inspired by error-theory, philosophers have developed forms of moral fictionalism, according to which moral claims either are or ought to be "useful fictions".
While "moral naturalism" is sometimes used to refer to any approach to metaethics intended to cohere with naturalism in metaphysics more generally, the label is more usually reserved for naturalistic forms of moral realism according to which there are objective moral facts and properties and these moral facts and properties are natural facts and properties.
While relativist, this variety of constructivism can explain and justify large areas of moral accord within groups.
