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Moral Arrogance and Moral Theories
Author(s) -
Gert Bernard
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
philosophical issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.638
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1758-2237
pISSN - 1533-6077
DOI - 10.1111/j.1533-6077.2005.00072.x
Subject(s) - moral philosophy , citation , philosophy , sociology , epistemology , library science , computer science
The two sources of unresolvable moral disagreement I shall discuss in this paper are: (1) differences in the rational rankings of the basic goods or benefits (consciousness, abilities, freedom, and pleasure) and evils or harms (death, pain, disability, loss of freedom, or loss of pleasure) and (2) differences about who is included in the group that is impartially protected, or protected at all, by the moral rules, e.g., infants, fetuses, and non-human mammals such as chimpanzees and dolphins.