Richard G Henson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5912380 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard G Henson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard G |
| FAMILY NAME | Henson |
| SIGNATURE | HENSON R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Butler on Selfishness and Self-Love
Bishop Joseph Butler certainly refuted something but what, exactly? Was it the idea, which springs eternal in the breasts of sophomore ethics students, that all human behavior is in some significant sense selfish? (Call that view psychological egoism.) Was it Thomas Hobbes, in whom that idea is widely thought to have been made flesh? C. D. Broad says that the view was killed by Butler. A. I. Melden speaks of Butler's refutation of psychological e…
Moral Relativity
What Kant Might Have Said: Moral Worth and the Overdetermination of Dutiful Action
M Y purpose is to account for some oddities in what Kant did and did not say about worth, and for another in what commentators tell us about his intent. The stone with which hope to dispatch these several birds is-as one would expect a philosopher's stone to be-a distinction. distinguish between two things Kant might have had in mind under the heading of moral worth. They come readily to mind when one both takes account of what he actually said a…
Utilitarianism and the Wrongness of Killing
Ethical Relativism and a Paradox About Meaning
Journal Article Ethical Relativism and a Paradox About Meaning Get access Richard G. Henson Richard G. Henson University of Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 11, Issue 44, July 1961, Pages 245–255, https://doi.org/10.2307/2216626 Published: 01 July 1961
The Structure of a Moral Code
On Being Ideal
i. Many philosophers in the past few decades have been exercised over the question whether or how ethical expressions could be meaningful. In particular, many who accepted some form of verifiability criterion of meaningfulness have thought that either ethical judgments can have only meaning or they must be a subclass of empirical assertions. It is to be expected, then, that those empiricists who were dissatisfied with the emotive theory should tr…
What Kant Might Have Said: Moral Worth and the Overdetermination of Dutiful Action
M Y purpose is to account for some oddities in what Kant did and did not say about worth, and for another in what commentators tell us about his intent. The stone with which hope to dispatch these several birds is-as one would expect a philosopher's stone to be-a distinction. distinguish between two things Kant might have had in mind under the heading of moral worth. They come readily to mind when one both takes account of what he actually said a…
On Being Ideal
i. Many philosophers in the past few decades have been exercised over the question whether or how ethical expressions could be meaningful. In particular, many who accepted some form of verifiability criterion of meaningfulness have thought that either ethical judgments can have only meaning or they must be a subclass of empirical assertions. It is to be expected, then, that those empiricists who were dissatisfied with the emotive theory should tr…
The Structure of a Moral Code
Ethical Relativism and a Paradox About Meaning
Journal Article Ethical Relativism and a Paradox About Meaning Get access Richard G. Henson Richard G. Henson University of Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 11, Issue 44, July 1961, Pages 245–255, https://doi.org/10.2307/2216626 Published: 01 July 1961
Utilitarianism and the Wrongness of Killing
What Kant Might Have Said: Moral Worth and the Overdetermination of Dutiful Action
M Y purpose is to account for some oddities in what Kant did and did not say about worth, and for another in what commentators tell us about his intent. The stone with which hope to dispatch these several birds is-as one would expect a philosopher's stone to be-a distinction. distinguish between two things Kant might have had in mind under the heading of moral worth. They come readily to mind when one both takes account of what he actually said a…
Moral Relativity
Butler on Selfishness and Self-Love
Bishop Joseph Butler certainly refuted something but what, exactly? Was it the idea, which springs eternal in the breasts of sophomore ethics students, that all human behavior is in some significant sense selfish? (Call that view psychological egoism.) Was it Thomas Hobbes, in whom that idea is widely thought to have been made flesh? C. D. Broad says that the view was killed by Butler. A. I. Melden speaks of Butler's refutation of psychological e…
Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Contemporary philosophy (5 works) · General interest (5 works) · Analytic philosophy (3 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Free Will and Agency (2 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · War, Ethics, and Justification (2 works)