Naturalistic Fallacy
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A Naturalistic Fallacy is a Meta-Ethics that ...
- See: Meta-Ethics, G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica, Appeal To Nature, Is–Ought Problem, David Hume, A Treatise Of Human Nature, Ethical Non-Naturalism, Moral Realism.
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2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/naturalistic_fallacy Retrieved:2014-1-18.
- In philosophical ethics, the term "naturalistic fallacy" was introduced by British philosopher G. E. Moore in his 1903 book Principia Ethica. [1] Moore argues it would be fallacious to explain that which is good reductively, in terms of natural properties such as "pleasant" or "desirable".
The naturalistic fallacy is closely related to the fallacious appeal to nature, the claim that what is natural is inherently good or right, and that what is unnatural is inherently bad or wrong.
Furthermore, Moore's naturalistic fallacy is closely related to the is–ought problem, which comes from Hume's Treatise. However, unlike Hume's view of the is–ought problem, Moore (and other proponents of ethical non-naturalism) did not consider the naturalistic fallacy to be at odds with moral realism.
- In philosophical ethics, the term "naturalistic fallacy" was introduced by British philosopher G. E. Moore in his 1903 book Principia Ethica. [1] Moore argues it would be fallacious to explain that which is good reductively, in terms of natural properties such as "pleasant" or "desirable".
- ↑ Moore, G.E. Principia Ethica § 10 ¶ 3