Iris Murdoch, privacy, and the limits of moral testimony

European Journal of Philosophy 30 (3):1125-1134 (2021)
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Abstract

Recent discussions of moral testimony have focused on the acceptability of forming beliefs on the basis of moral testimony, but there has been little acknowledgement of the limits to testimony's capacity to convey moral knowledge. In this paper I outline one such limit, drawing on Iris Murdoch's conception of private moral concepts. Such concepts, I suggest, plausibly play an important role in moral thought, and yet moral knowledge expressed in them cannot be testimonially acquired.

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Making Sense of Things: Moral Inquiry as Hermeneutical Inquiry.Paulina Sliwa - forthcoming - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
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The Sovereignty of Good.Iris Murdoch - 1971 - Philosophy 47 (180):178-180.
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