This paper studies the cooperation of theology in new evangelization societies ancient Christian tradition which are suffering an advanced process secularization. It begins with Spain, where a recent debate on influence intellectuals social life suggests ineffectiveness ecclesiastical resources transmitting rich Catholic doctrinal heritage. Then author deals idiosyncrasy contemporary man, lies ...

We examine a hitherto unstudied debate, turning on the epistemology of value judgements, between Ashʿarīs and Baṣran Muʿtazilīs late eleventh twelfth centuries. Al-Ghazālī al-Rāzī countered Muʿtazilī ethical realism, here defended by al-Malāḥimī, developing an emotive subjectivism underpinned increasingly sophisticated psychological accounts motivation. Value they maintained, arise not from kno...

Teaching ethics in public schools in the United States has been made almost impossible because of the Culture War and Modern Economics. When Catholics began to migrate to the United States in the early nineteenth century, they found that Protestant religion and ethics were taught in public schools and they created their own parochial schools. This controversy has continued for two hundred years...

Moral subjectivism is commonly associated with out-of-favour theories like, e.g., Alfred Ayer’s emotivism or John Mackie’s error theory. This paper approaches the field against background of attitudinal character morality and religion. The possibility a brand moral established which common to in name only but seems have considerable merits. perspective from action theory philosophy mind suggest...

This paper seeks to make two distinctive sets of contributions through a supplementary reinterpretation Max Weber in the light Charles Taylor’s expressivist-hermeneutical theory human agency. First, it offers Weber’s work. Focussing on concept stance, highlights that theorising values and their relation cognition, action identity is less underpinned by subjectivism, representationalism, emotivi...

I reconstruct here the implicit rationale of Smith’s ethical system, which unites in a single and consistent theory the most valuable features of both ancient virtue ethics and modern deontology. I propose that Smith could do this because of his approach to what I call “sympathetic impartiality”, and the pretension of universality that arises from it. In Smith’s theory, sentiments are moralized...

The resurgence of interest in virtue ethics can be traced to the late 1950s and to the work of Elizabeth Anscombe and Philippa Foot. On Anscombe's view, both deontologism and consequentialism are guilty of judging the " rightness " or " wrongness " of actions on the model of rendering a verdict based on one's understanding of the law and of an agent's obligations under the law. The fundamental ...

Value judgments are meaningless. This thesis was one of the notorious tenets of Carnap’s mature logical empiricism. Less well known is the fact that in the Aufbau values were considered as philosophically respectable entities that could be constituted f rom value experiences. About 1930, however, values were banished to the realm of meaningless metaphysics, and Carnap came to endorse a strict e...