Journal article
A reflection on critical realism and ethics
Journal of critical realism, v 18(3), pp 274-284
27 May 2019
Abstract
Drawing on my own work and experience, this paper brings together the various connections between critical realism (CR) and ethics. It argues that, against both determinism and physicalist reductionism, CR provides the very conditions of possibility for ethics. It goes on to identify a number of ethical matters that CR addresses that have not received adequate notice: Truth as among the conditions of possibility for ethics and as a democratic value in itself; the ethics of belief as opposed to action; the distinction between micro and macro-morality and the privatization of the latter; and moral purpose. The paper argues finally that ethics need to be grounded ontologically somehow, presumably in some transcendental way, which implies a connection with religion or at least some grounding secular worldview that treads on the religious domain.
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Details
- Title
- A reflection on critical realism and ethics
- Creators
- Douglas V. Porpora - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Journal of critical realism, v 18(3), pp 274-284
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Communication
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000479036100004
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85067672704
- Other Identifier
- 991019173852904721
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- Philosophy
- Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary