Mahdi Misaghinezhad; mahdi najafiafra; Mohammad Akvan
Abstract
One of the important viewpoints in philosophy, especially in moral philosophy, is “relativism”. The critical and rational examination of relativism can lead to the right moral decisions and, accordingly, the right action in different circumstances. Richard Mervyn Hare is one of the prominent ...
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One of the important viewpoints in philosophy, especially in moral philosophy, is “relativism”. The critical and rational examination of relativism can lead to the right moral decisions and, accordingly, the right action in different circumstances. Richard Mervyn Hare is one of the prominent moral philosophers, who in his moral philosophy, speaking of relativism and realism, has expressed the criteria for the relativity of moral judgments. By using the rule of “generalizability”, he has tried to justify the moral judgments. Also, considering the role of practicing in using the moral principles according to the circumstances, he has tried to lead the moral agent to a skill that leads to the right moral action. Besides, in explaining his moral theory, Hare considers knowing the circumstances and teaching the moral principles as effective in making moral judgments, and finally, he links the foundations of his viewpoint to intuitive and critical thinking in order to strengthen it and to make it coherent. In this paper, we have tried to examine Hare’s viewpoint about relativism from a theoretical perspective.
abdolhadi rezaeetalarposhti; دکتر محمد رضا ضمیری; mohammad sadegh jamshidi
Volume 18, Issue 3 , January 0, , Pages 87-108
Abstract
Moral relativism is one of the most important topics in moral philosophy that has created a lot of challenges and reactions from moral piety and post- structuralist mortality perspectives. In its principles and morality values, moral relativism benefits from the bases of ontology, epistemology and anthropology ...
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Moral relativism is one of the most important topics in moral philosophy that has created a lot of challenges and reactions from moral piety and post- structuralist mortality perspectives. In its principles and morality values, moral relativism benefits from the bases of ontology, epistemology and anthropology relying on a philosophical theological approach. Its origins can be found in issues such as skepticism, rationalism, pluralism, relativism in wisdom and cognition, humanism and unreligious self-centeredness. This philosophic view has instituted a practicable morality under which contemporary man has been deprived from true perfection informed by the Islamic sources since human beings’ inclination toward moral relativity on the one hand and its consequences on the other hand have moved human being away from spiritual teachings and made them overlook absolute and subjective morality which is informed by qur’anic verses and Islamic narratives. Adopting an analytic explanatory approach, the present article tries to show that moral relativism is inefficient in achieving the ultimate goal of morality.