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Review of Robert L. Arrington: _Rationalism, Realism, and Relativism: Perspectives in Contemporary Moral Epistemology_ [Book Review]

Stephen J. Sullivan

Ethics 101 (2):406-408 (1991)

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Untergräbt der Relativismus die Autorität der Moral und die regulative Funktion ihrer Wahrheit?Manfred Harth - 2016 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 93 (2):291-322.details In this article, various objections will be discussed that have been put forward against ethical relativism, but which haven’t been considered seriously enough on the part of relativists and have been overrated on the part of their opponents. The objections will be concentrated into three arguments: the action-theoretic, the epistemological and the truth-theoretic argument. The article will discuss whether they can be rebutted by proponents of the two main types of relativism: indexical relativism and truth-relativism. The conclusion will be as (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
On criticising values.A. W. Price - 2000 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 47:141-158.details If we cannot agree that evaluations are judgements that both describe things and express sentiments, we lack any shared understanding of a common topic. If we ever come to agree how the describing and expressing relate, we shall lose a debate. Suppose that evaluation is a mode of description essentially expressive of sentiment, and that some evaluations can be known to be true: then there must exist properties of such a kind that they can be apprehended only from appropriately affective (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
The moral requirement in theistic and secular ethics.Patrick Loobuyck - 2010 - Heythrop Journal 51 (2):192-207.details One of the central tasks of meta-ethical inquiry is to accommodate the common-sense assumptions deeply embedded in our moral discourse. A comparison of the potential of secular and theistic ethics shows that, in the end, theists have a greater facility in achieving this accommodation task; it is easier to appreciate the action-guiding authority and binding nature of morality in a theistic rather than in a secular context. Theistic ethics has a further advantage in being able to accommodate not only this (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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