Ethical Absolutism and the Ideal Observer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10346222 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roderick Firth (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1952 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 317-317 |
| Publication date | 1952-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8205 • E-ISSN: 1933-1592 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2103988 |
| OpenAlex | W2318811435 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 139 |
Absolute monarchy · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Observer (physics · Physics · Political science · Politics · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political Philosophy and Ethics
A Moral Theory of Liveliness
Construtivismo Político
Altruísmo, Simpatia E Modelos Evolucionários Na Teoria Ética De Hume
A God by any other Name
Ethical Naturalism
Response-Dependent Realism
The Space Between
Explaining Value
Constitutive Generalism
Wrongdoing, Desert, and Punishment
Motivational Humeanism 5
From Moral Knowledge to Default Principles
The Constructivist Challenge 2
Holism about Reasons
The Justification of Moral Principles 11
Generalism as a Regulative Ideal
Moral Scepticism 10
Moral Vision
Supervenience and Causation 4
Moral and Other Realisms
Beneficence and Self‐Love
Moral Rationalism 8
Many Moral Particularisms
Default Reasons
Moral Dilemmas, Gaps, and Residues
Reasonable Self‐Interest
Punishment, Conscience, and Moral Worth
Rationality and Disagreement 9
The Justification of Verdictive Beliefs 12
Motivational Judgement Internalism 6
The Non-cognitivist Challenge 1
Reasons Internalism 7
Beyond Default Principles
Principled Guidance
What is Moral Relativism?
Ethical Non-naturalism 3
Is a Good Will Overrated?
A Theory of Truthmaking
Innovating democracy
The Nature of Normativity
The Myth of Morality
Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy
Sovereign Reason
Decision Procedures, Standards of Rightness and Impartiality
Moral Disagreement and Moral Relativism
Concrete Kantian Respect
The Problem of Stability in Political Liberalism
Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life
Respect, Pluralism, and Justice
Brain Death and the Historical Understanding of Bioethics
The Sublime of Consciousness
On Deontic Truth and Values
Moral subjectivism and the semantics of disagreements
An Adam Smithian Account of Humanity
The Virtue of Self-Compassion
A Defense of Modest Ideal Observer Theory
Socratic Irony and Argumentation
Hume's General Point of View
The impact of intelligent decision-support systems on humans' ethical decision-making
Desire and motivation in desire theories of well-being
Moral knowledge and epistemic limits
The moral appeals of ancestors
From Foundations of Justice Analysis to Current and Future Challenges
Elements of a Decision Procedure for Christian Social Ethics
Medical Ethics
The Universal Perspective and Moral Development
Questions of Ethics
Referent-Models of Loving
An Explanatory Challenge to Moral Reductionism
Response‐dependence and normativity
Ethics in Terms of Hypothetical Imperatives
Meeting Needs and Doing Favors
Happiness and Human Flourishing
Explaining Value
Four Conceptions of Conscience
Kantian Analysis
Liveliness as Secular Life Force
Moral Agent and Impartial Spectator
Conclusion
Personal Values and Setting Oneself Ends
Hypothetical Consent in Kantian Constructivism
Measuring Social Welfare
Contemporary Developments and Perspectives in International Health Security - Volume 1
The Evolution of Morality and Religion
A sketch of metaethics
Blame It on the AI? On the Moral Responsibility of Artificial Moral Advisors
The Artificial Moral Advisor. The “Ideal Observer” Meets Artificial Intelligence
On Keeping Things in Proportion
Could Morality Have a Source
The Emotional Construction of Morals
Fifty Years of Justice Research
The Oxford Handbook of Rationality
Divine Command Theory without a Divine Commander
Why Richard Brandt Does Not Need Cognitive Psychotherapy, and Other Glad News about Idealized Preference Theories in Meta-Ethics
The Metaethicists’ Mistake 1
Moral Concepts
What did Adam Smith learn from François Quesnay
To the Mountaintop Again
Comprehensive or Political Liberalism? The Impartial Spectator and the Justification of Political Principles
Immodest Consequentialism and Character
| Unique citing works | 139 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,4 |
| Citation span | 1968 - 2026 (59) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 135 |