Slavery, Carbon, and Moral Progress
My goal in this paper is to shed light on how moral progress actually occurs. I begin by restating a conception of moral progress that I set out in previous work, the Naïve Conception, and explain how it comports with various normative and metaethical views. I go on to develop an index of moral pr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2017]
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2017, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 169-183 |
| RelBib Classification: | NCA Ethics TJ Modern history TK Recent history VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Slavery
B Moral Realism B Evolutionary Ethics B Moral Progress B Climate Change |
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| Summary: | My goal in this paper is to shed light on how moral progress actually occurs. I begin by restating a conception of moral progress that I set out in previous work, the Naïve Conception, and explain how it comports with various normative and metaethical views. I go on to develop an index of moral progress and show how judgments about moral progress can be made. I then discuss an example of moral progress from the pastthe British abolition of the Atlantic slave tradewith a view to what can be learned from this for a contemporary struggle for moral progress: the movement to decarbonize the global economy. I close with some thoughts about how moral progress actually occurs. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8447 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10677-016-9746-1 |