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30 Ιουν 2011 · Abstract. At the centre of our ethical thought stands the human being. Facts about human nature determine the shape of ethical concepts in a variety of ways, and our pre-rational animal nature forms the basis of notions to do with rationality, virtue, and happiness, among other things.
7 Απρ 2020 · As ethical naturalists, they hold that the traditional table of moral virtues are natural excellences, where what counts as a natural excellence is determined by facts about human nature. I will simplify this roughly as the claim that ethical goodness is a kind of natural goodness.
15 Μαρ 2021 · It is a hermeneutic product of “human” self-understanding, constructed from within our best ethical outlook: “an ethical theory of human nature”, she claims, should force us to answer for ourselves, on the basis of our very own ethical judgment, the question which beings are fully human ones.
3 Ιουλ 2014 · Hursthouse identifies two problems that reason creates for applying the natural goodness schema to human beings: ‘By and large we can’t identify what is characteristic of human beings as a species in this way—there is too much variety.
16 Ιουν 2023 · This paper argues that Aristotelian ethical naturalism can combine two commitments that are often held to be incompatible: (a) a commitment to a strong form of ethical objectivity and (b) a thoroughgoing historicism about ethical value.
terms of the discussion are human nature, practical reason, language-games, the social context of human lives, and the connection between life and lan guage. Its aim is to develop and give reasons for a particular approach to ethics, rather than to construct a theory, give detailed analyses of other Mind, Vol. 121 . 482 .
Human nature ethical theorists come in three varieties: those whose ethical thought depends on notions about human nature but who do not discuss their dependence systematically (from Plato to Rawls there are many of these); those, such as Hobbes, Bentham, and James Mill, who lean toward the characterization of human nature as effectively reducib...
