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... Ross (1877-1971): The Right and the Good, 1930; The Foundations of Ethics, 1939
Key terms
Ethical naturalism, good, intuition, intuitionism, meta-ethics, naturalistic fallacy, normative ethics, prima facie duties
What you will learn by the end of this chapter. ... By the end of the nineteenth century, this normative approach to ethics produced naturalism, which maintained that ethical values could be substantiated in the same way that scientific ones were, using evidence and proofs. ...
Ethical naturalism
With the rise of modern science in the seventeenth century, and the criticisms that science was making of traditional views of the world, which were based partly on religious traditions, a view of ethics emerged that tried to link morals with this new scientific knowledge. ... Ross built on the work of Prichard and Moore in his works The Right and the Good (1930) and The Foundations of Ethics (1939). ... Utilitarianism, natural moral law and Kantian ethics all have sets of moral principles that operate in this way. ...
Ross theory is a more fully developed form of intuitionism, which goes some way to addressing the difficulty that absolutist theories of ethics face when two absolutes conflict. ... To anchor ethics to science leaves it vulnerable to the vagaries of scientific discovery.
Approximate Word count = 3555
Approximate Pages = 14.2
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