Changing Our Nature: Ethical Naturalism, Objectivity, and History

IF 0.8 2区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2023-06-16 DOI:10.1017/S0031819123000128

Matthew Congdon

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Abstract

Abstract 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. The notions of species and life-form invoked by ethical naturalism do not, I argue, rely upon an ahistorical picture of human nature. I develop this idea by building upon Philippa Foot's defence of ethical naturalism in Natural Goodness. I go on to argue that linguistic changes in the ways we articulate the conditions of human flourishing can be understood, in some cases, as transforming those very conditions.

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改变我们的本性：伦理自然主义、客观性和历史

摘要本文认为亚里士多德的伦理自然主义可以结合两种通常被认为是不相容的承诺：（a）对强烈形式的伦理客观性的承诺和（b）关于伦理价值的彻底历史主义。我认为，伦理自然主义所援引的物种和生命形式的概念并不依赖于对人性的非历史性描述。我是在菲利帕·富特在《自然善》中为伦理自然主义辩护的基础上发展这一观点的。我继续认为，在某些情况下，我们表达人类繁荣条件的方式的语言变化可以被理解为改变了这些条件。

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