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(It was revised and updated as The Moral Property of Women in 2002).
In particular, is the truth of a given moral principle part of what explains why a given action has a given moral property?
When I say 'murder is wrong' this statement predicates a moral property, wrongness, of an action type, murder.
They are true when the things referred to have the moral property that is ascribed to them by the judgement.
Mackie's argument seems to "load up" the concept of a moral property with a lot of baggage that the non-naturalist need not accept.
We seem to express a moral belief, attributing a particular moral property or normative characteristic to the action or state of affairs.
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The idea is that commonsense morality embodies a theory of morality which specifies the ways in which various moral properties (rightness, wrongness, goodness, badness, fairness, etc).
If acts are to have pre-positive moral properties, they must also have a pre-positive aptitude to be morally good or bad.
Moral properties are explained by other properties.
What is the nature of moral properties?
And moral principles tell us about moral properties.
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