Essays about: "Jerker Karlsson"

Found 2 essays containing the words Jerker Karlsson.

1. 1. Ethics Naturalized : Naturalism as Explanatory Structure in Metaethics

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

   Author : Jerker Karlsson; [2012]
   Keywords : Ethics; Evolution; Emotivism; Metaethics; Naturalism; Moral Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to investigate what implications a naturalized account of metaethics could have for our understanding of ethics and to advance a type of ethical naturalism that is non-reductionist. During the course of the study several different approaches to metaethics are investigated and critically evaluated, before a positive account of ethical naturalism is delivered. READ MORE

3. 2. Why Human Virtues Obtain in the Natural World

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

   Author : Jerker Karlsson; [2012]
   Keywords : Naturalism; Virtue-ethics; Weltanschauung; Language game; Aristotle; Philosophy and Religion;

   Abstract : This essay aims to connect naturalism and virtue-ethics to a form of realism about values. The thesis advanced in the essay relies heavily on the Wittgensteinian concepts language-game and weltanschauung as explanatory tools for how values can be both real and unreal, both objective and subjective, both at the same time but not from the same perspective. READ MORE