Why Ethics Needs Metaphysics?
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منابع مشابه
Metaphysics and medical ethics.
I take issue with Frank Leavitt's sketch of a pragmatic criterion for the relevance of metaphysics to medical ethics. I argue that appeal to the potential for confusion generated by metaphysical subtlety establishes a need for better communication rather than shows philosophical insight beside the point. I demonstrate that the proposed Criterion of Relevance has absurd consequences, and I claim...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Problemos
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2424-6158,1392-1126
DOI: 10.15388/problemos.96.1