Beyond Science: Ontology as a Mode of Ethical Inquiry

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Beyond Science: Ontology as a Mode of Ethical Inquiry

Original language description

This paper explores the relationship between science and ethics. More specifically, it questions the viability and propriety of inhabiting a scientific perspective and applying scientific methodology to questions concerning our moral lives. A brief survey and critique of attempts at such a project is provided, using evolutionary theory and scientific psychology as exemplars. It is suggested that conceptual confusions and fundamental misunderstandings of the subjects of inquiry (i.e., the human being and its moral nature) render any such project unpromising or perhaps even impossible. The positive thesis advanced is that the human being is ontologically constituted by morality, and as such must be regarded, understood, and treated in a paradigmatically different way than objects of scientific inquiry; to wit, we must employ an ontological method in order to penetrate and speak meaningfully about human beings&apos; moral life.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Philosophical-theological review

ISSN

2233-3568

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2024

Issue of the periodical within the volume

14

Country of publishing house

GE - GEORGIA

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

158-168

UT code for WoS article

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