Moral and other Values

Dieter Birnbacher

Abstract


What constitutes moral values and norms in comparison with other kinds of values and norms? What makes moral values different from political, aesthetic or personal values? At first sight, these questions seem to have an easy answer. On a closer look, however, difficulties abound. The concept of morality seems to defy a definition by necessary and sufficient conditions. By approaching the question ex negative, the article attempts to do away with a few "myths" about morality current in analytical meta-ethics and, in conclusion, to offer some suggestions of how the concept of morality might be explained without recourse to a definition per genus et differentiam.

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morality; moral values; definition; necessary and sufficient conditions

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/kw.2013.8.43
Date of publication: 2015-07-07 04:48:50
Date of submission: 2015-07-07 03:20:40


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