Open AccessThe Functional Model of Analysis as Middle Ground Meta-Ethics
Author(s) -
Krzysztof Saja
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
diametros
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.195
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 1733-5566
DOI - 10.33392/diam.1296
Subject(s) - normative , consequentialism , epistemology , morality , normative ethics , sketch , deontological ethics , ethical theory , meta ethics , meaning (existential) , function (biology) , sociology , utilitarianism , ethical theories , philosophy , information ethics , law , political science , computer science , algorithm , evolutionary biology , biology
The main purpose of the paper is to present a new framework of meta-ethics which I call the Functional Model of Analysis. It presupposes that the most important meta-ethical question is not “What is the meaning of normative words, sentences and what is the ontological fabric of the moral world?” but “What should morality and ethics be for?”. It is a form of meta-ethics that focuses on finding theoretical resources that can be helpful in understanding ongoing ethical debates between disciples of Aristotle, Epicurus, the Stoics, Augustine, Hobbes, utilitarians and Kant, and in building normative ethical theories that can help us to answer normative questions. As an example of such output I will present a formal sketch of Hybrid Function Consequentialism – a normative ethical theory based upon the meta-ethical framework proposed here.