| Title |
Kodėl etikai reikia metafizikos? / |
| Translation of Title |
Why ethics needs metaphysics? |
| Authors |
Noreikaitė, Aistė |
| DOI |
10.15388/Problemos.96.1 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Problemos.. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. 2019, t. 96, p. 8-22.. ISSN 1392-1126. eISSN 2424-6158 |
| Keywords [eng] |
ethics ; metaphysics ; Ronald Dworkin ; ethical subject |
| Abstract [eng] |
The aim of this paper is to show that Ronald Dworkin’s objective to isolate ethics from metaphysics is not sufficiently grounded, and a certain metaphysics is inherent even in his own position of autonomous ethics. While opposing those thinkers who seek to ground ethics by finding an external – neutral and non-evaluative – ground, Dworkin identifies this externality to ethics with metaphysics and aims to show its fallibility. However, such a conception of metaphysics seems to be too narrow and one-sided and leads his own position into contradictions. This paper aims to demonstrate these contradictions and to argue that even the position that is inner to ethics and stems from a first-person agent’s perspective can only be developed while considering such metaphysical ideas as freedom, dignity, person. |
| Published |
Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
Lithuanian |
| Publication date |
2019 |
| CC license |
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