Open AccessCzy wybór systemu moralnego powinien być bezstronny?
Author(s) -
Richard B. Brandt
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
etyka
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2392-1161
pISSN - 0014-2263
DOI - 10.14394/etyka.268
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , term (time) , code (set theory) , moral disengagement , sociology , epistemology , social psychology , psychology , philosophy , computer science , physics , quantum mechanics , set (abstract data type) , programming language
The paper proposes as a to-be-recommended meaning for “A is wrong”: “A would be prohibited by any moral code or system which all rationa1 persons would prefer to any other moral system, or to none, for a society in which they believed they and/or their children would spend their lives”. The term “rational” is to mean “vividly aware, over a period of time, so as to influence desires”. It is not contended that this proposal expresses what people actually mean by their moral terms; it is suggested that people would respect moral claims if moral statements were so construed.