Are there distinctively moral reasons?

• Main Authors: Forcehimes, Andrew T., Semrau, Luke
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Philosophy; Reasons and Oughts; Moral Responsibility
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90163; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48438
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A dogma of contemporary normative theorizing holds that some reasons are distinctively moral while others are not. Call this view Reasons Pluralism. This essay looks at four approaches to vindicating the apparent distinction between moral and non-moral reasons. In the end, however, all are found wan...