Good people are not like good knives

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Is anything good simpliciter? And can things count as ‘good’ independent of the context in which is used? Traditionally, a number meta-ethicists have given positive answers. But more recently, some philosophers used observations based on natural language to argue that only relative ends and contextual thresholds. I will use work from contemporary linguistics ambiguous, it has moral disambiguation attributes fixed degree goodness. This implies simpliciter, context. Not does this result provide support for traditional view, but also vindicates aspects recent view.

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عنوان ژورنال: Noûs

سال: 2023

ISSN: ['1468-0068', '0029-4624']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12472