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The inescapability of ethics
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Date Issued
2013-06
Date Available
2014-02-04T09:24:40Z
Abstract
As a philosophical theory, as contrasted with a theological view or an
assumption of popular science or an emotional intuition about fate, determinism
fails because it is unstateable. However far we impinge (for instance for legal or
moral purposes) upon the area of free will we cannot philosophically exhibit a
situation in which, instead of shifting, it vanishes. The phenomena of rationality
and morality are involved in the very attempt to banish them.
assumption of popular science or an emotional intuition about fate, determinism
fails because it is unstateable. However far we impinge (for instance for legal or
moral purposes) upon the area of free will we cannot philosophically exhibit a
situation in which, instead of shifting, it vanishes. The phenomena of rationality
and morality are involved in the very attempt to banish them.
Type of Material
Book Chapter
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Copyright (Published Version)
2013, University of Notre Dame Press
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Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
Journal
Fran O'Rourke (eds.). What Happened in and to Moral Philosophy in the Twentieth Century?: Philosophical Essays in Honour of Alasdair MacIntyre
ISBN
9780268037376
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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