The Meaning of `Good' and the Possibility of Value

Author: Clark, Philip

Source: Philosophical Studies, Volume 108, Numbers 1-2, March 2002 , pp. 31-38(8)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

Moore held that to call something good is to ascribe a property to it. But he denied that the property could be expressed in non-evaluative terms. Can one accept this view of the meaning of `good' without falling into skepticism about whether anything can be, or be known to be, good? I suggest a way of doing this. The strategy combines the idea that `good' is semantically entangled, as opposed to semantically isolated, with the idea that rational agents have a generic disposition to follow reasons.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1015703929318

Affiliations: 1: Email: pmclark@ksu.edu

Publication date: 2002-03-01