On L. W. Sumner’s “Normative ethics and metaethics”

Due largely to the influential work of Ronald Dworkin, there is an ongoing debate concerning the possibility of genuine metaethical theorizing. Those suspicious of the possibility of metaethics argue in two steps. The first step lays down a requirement, namely, neutrality: genuine metaethical theori...

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Main Author:	Forcehimes, Andrew T.
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spelling	sg-ntu-dr.10356-1428012020-07-01T06:23:19Z On L. W. Sumner’s “Normative ethics and metaethics” Forcehimes, Andrew T. School of Humanities Humanities::Ethics Normative Ethics Metaethics Due largely to the influential work of Ronald Dworkin, there is an ongoing debate concerning the possibility of genuine metaethical theorizing. Those suspicious of the possibility of metaethics argue in two steps. The first step lays down a requirement, namely, neutrality: genuine metaethical theories must avoid having first-order normative commitments. The second step maintains that the nature of metaethical theorizing is such that a breach of neutrality is inevitable. The upshot of violating neutrality is that metaethical theories turn out to be moral theories in disguise. Call this case against metaethics the collapse argument. Published version 2020-07-01T06:23:19Z 2020-07-01T06:23:19Z 2015 Journal Article Forcehimes, A. T. (2015). On L. W. Sumner’s “Normative ethics and metaethics”. Ethics, 125(4), 1142-1144. doi:10.1086/680881 0014-1704 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/142801 10.1086/680881 2-s2.0-84937010870 4 125 1142 1144 en Ethics © 2015 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. This paper was published in Ethics and is made available with permission of The University of Chicago. application/pdf
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description	Due largely to the influential work of Ronald Dworkin, there is an ongoing debate concerning the possibility of genuine metaethical theorizing. Those suspicious of the possibility of metaethics argue in two steps. The first step lays down a requirement, namely, neutrality: genuine metaethical theories must avoid having first-order normative commitments. The second step maintains that the nature of metaethical theorizing is such that a breach of neutrality is inevitable. The upshot of violating neutrality is that metaethical theories turn out to be moral theories in disguise. Call this case against metaethics the collapse argument.
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On L. W. Sumner’s “Normative ethics and metaethics”

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