In a performance culture, the individual who manages to be best, is glorified. The rest become marginalised or even excluded from community. right define what best often in hands of few, and most these criteria have roots form emotivism. are thereby weakly defined, bendable favour those seem taken control. response aim being Lennart Nørreklit develops conceptual framework for good, language gam...

Stephen Maitzen argues that divine command metaethics must be mistaken because it is committed to the implausible assumption sentence ‘God (morally) good’ a tautology. In this article, I show charitable interpretation of R. M. Adams’ version not accept assumption. conclude Maitzen’s objection merely manages refute strawman metaethics.

The Beauty-is-Good stereotype refers to the assumption that attractive people possess sociably desirable personalities and higher moral standards. The existence of this bias suggests that the neural mechanisms for judging facial attractiveness and moral goodness overlap. To investigate this idea, we scanned participants with functional magnetic resonance imaging while they made attractiveness j...

Abstract Traditional theism says that the goodness of everything comes from God. Moreover, something intrinsically valuable can only come what has it. Many conclude these two claims no creatures have intrinsic value if traditional is true. I argue exemplarist theory divine ideas gives theist a way out. According to exemplarism, God creates according are about himself, and so resembles Since who...