The Entanglement Problem and Idealization in Moral Philosophy

Philosophical Quarterly 68 (272):542-559 (2018)
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According to many popular views in normative ethics, meta-ethics and axiology, facts about what we ought to do or what is good for us depend on facts about the attitudes that some agent would have in some relevant idealized circumstances. This paper presents an unrecognized structural problem for such views which threatens to be devastating.

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Olle Risberg
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