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On Locating Value in Making Moral Progress

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Summary, in English

The endeavour to locate value in moral progress faces various substantive as well as more formal challenges. This paper focuses on challenges of the latter kind. After some preliminaries, Section 3 introduces two general kinds of “evaluative moral progress-claims”, and outlines a possible novel analysis of a (quasi) descriptive notion of moral progress. While Section 4 discusses certain logical features of betterness in light of recent work in value theory which are pertinent to the notion of moral progress, Sections 5 and 6 outline the ambiguous character of “making moral progress”.

Publishing year

2017-02

Language

English

Pages

137-152

Publication/Series

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

Volume

20

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Philosophy

Keywords

  • Moral progress
  • Value comparisons
  • Betterness
  • Value incomparability
  • Value dualism

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1386-2820