Does Deep Moral Disagreement Exist in Real Life?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.organonf.com/journal/orgf-2023-30302/" target="_blank" >https://www.organonf.com/journal/orgf-2023-30302/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30302" target="_blank" >10.31577/orgf.2023.30302</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Does Deep Moral Disagreement Exist in Real Life?

Original language description

The existence of deep moral disagreement is used in support of views ranging from moral relativ-ism to the impossibility of moral expertise. This is done despite the fact that it is not at all clear whether deep moral disagreements actually occur, as the usually given examples are never of real life situations, but of some generalized debates on controversial issues. The paper will try to reme-dy this, as any strength of arguments appealing to deep moral disagreement is partly depended on the fact the disagreement exists. This will be done by showing that some real life conflicts that are intractable, i.e. notoriously difficult to resolve, share some important features with deep moral disagreement. The article also deals with the objection that the mere conceptual possibility renders illustrations of actually happening deep moral disagreements unnecessary. The problem with such objection is that it depends on theoretical assumptions (i.e. denial of moral realism) that are not uncontroversial. Instead, the article claims we need not only suppose deep moral disagreements exist because they actually occur when some intractable conflicts occur. Thus, in so far as to the deep moral disagreement’s existence, the arguments appealing to it are safe. But as intractable conflicts can be resolved, by seeing deep moral disagreements as constitutive part of them, we might have to consider whether deep moral disagreements are resolvable too. A brief suggestion of how that might look like is given in the end of the paper.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Organon F

ISSN

1335-0668

e-ISSN

2585-7150

Volume of the periodical

30

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

"255–277"

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85176765574