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Author Cuneo, Terence, 1969- author.

Title Speech and morality : on the metaethical implications of speaking / Terence Cuneo
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 259 pages)
Contents Clarke's insight -- A normativve theory of speech -- The moral dimensions of speech -- Against the mixed view: Part I -- Against the mixed view: Part II -- Three antirealist views -- Epistemic implications
Summary Terence Cuneo presents a new argument for moral realism. According to the normative theory of speech, speech acts are generated by an agent's altering her normative position with regard to her audience. In doing so she takes on rights and responsibilities, some of which are moral and objective: these are a necessary condition of speech
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Metaethics.
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
Language and languages -- Philosophy
Metaethics
Meta-ethiek.
Philosophy.
Philosophy & Religion.
Ethics.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191781063
0191781061
9780191021336
0191021334