On Descriptive Ethics
Year: 2025
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The project of the book requires an account of a general relation among persons. Any moral philosophy without such a schema fails because it falls into propositionalism. Recent attempts following Bernard Williams to turn moral philosophy away from this and toward the concrete and the historical by genealogy fail because they too collapse into propositionalism. The root cause of this is that they rely on pseudo-histories and as a result produce “toy” or inadequate, descriptive accounts. Linguistic narrativism is also critiqued. Using Jasper’s concept of the Encompassing, the case for an existential ethics based on human vulnerability is presented.
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4414309319