Moral Theory and Moral Guidance
One recurrent theme in moral philosophy is the conflict between theory and practice. It is, inter alia, prevalent in the features on which one focuses when doing metaethics, it is prevalent in conflicts between theory-driven approaches – e.g. (neo-)Kantian or utilitarian, that focus on formulating abstract principles – and practice-driven approaches – e.g. neo-Aristotelian ones,...
Moral Bullying and Hypotheticist Metaethics
A very common opinion,[1] which is found among ordinary people, politicians and philosophers (professional or students) alike in the contemporary Western world, is that “morality is subjective” (MS). There is an almost infinite amount of ways to spell that thesis (or statement, or whatever) out in greater detail, some of which are incredibly sophisticated. I...