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adjective
- 1. not closely imitating or based on real life or nature: "painting using non-naturalistic colours"
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Feb 1, 2003 · Very roughly, non-naturalism in meta-ethics is the idea that moral philosophy is fundamentally autonomous from the natural sciences. More accurately, a family of related but distinct doctrines has gone under the heading ‘non-naturalism’.
Ethical non-naturalism (or moral non-naturalism) is the meta-ethical view which claims that: Ethical sentences express propositions. Some such propositions are true. Those propositions are made true by objective features of the world, independent of human opinion. These moral features of the world are not reducible to any set of non-moral features.
Non-naturalism definition: the meta-ethical doctrine that moral properties exist but are not reducible to "natural", empirical, or supernatural ones, and that moral judgments therefore state a special kind of fact. See examples of NON-NATURALISM used in a sentence.
Mar 1, 2002 · The chapter discusses various versions of naturalism and non-naturalism and includes discussion of supervenience, Aristotle, Hume, moral facts and moral explanation, and brief coverage of...
Dec 5, 2022 · Introduction. Understood broadly, the debate between naturalists and nonnaturalists in ethics concerns the question of how morality, and in particular moral value, is related to the natural world.
non-naturalism in British English noun the meta-ethical doctrine that moral properties exist but are not reducible to "natural", empirical , or supernatural ones, and that moral judgments therefore state a special kind of fact
Dec 28, 2022 · What Is Non-Naturalism? Abstract. Metaethicists often specify non-naturalism in different ways: some take it to be about identity, while others take it to be about grounding. But few directly address the taxonomical question of what the best way to understand non-naturalism is. That’s the task of this paper.
