Precis the birth of ethics

Philip Pettit

doi:10.1080/0020174X.2023.2296466

Precis the birth of ethics

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“The Birth of Ethics”, which is summarized here, argues that creatures like us who lacked prescriptive concepts of a kind with desirability and responsibility would be robustly likely to develop practices of mutual commitment that would prompt the evolution of such concepts, giving them access to corresponding properties. That development and evolution would be explicable without reliance on prescriptive concepts, supporting a form of naturalistic realism about ethics.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Inquiry (United Kingdom)
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2023.2296466
State	Accepted/In press - 2023
Externally published	Yes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Philosophy
Health Policy

Keywords

commitment
Ethics
genealogy
naturalism
realism

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