
Czeżowski's Axiological Concepts as Full-Fledged Modalities.
Author(s) -
Manuel Rebuschi
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
forum philosophicum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-7043
pISSN - 1426-1898
DOI - 10.35765/forphil.2008.1301.07
Subject(s) - deontic logic , intuitionism , modalities , epistemology , deontological ethics , philosophy , computer science , cognitive science , psychology , sociology , social science
This short paper provides a tentative formalization of Czeżowski's ideas about axiological concepts: Good and Evil are conceived of as modalities rather than as predicates. A natural account of the resulting “ethical logic” appears to be very close to standard deontic logic. If one does not resolve to become an antirealist regarding moral values, a possible way out is to become a revisionist about deontology: convert to intuitionism or some other kind of revisionism in deontic logic, and remain classical in ethical logic.