The two normativities

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titleThe two normativities
start_date2021/03/12
schedule19h
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summaryTwo kinds of normativity have been identified by moral philosophers. One is the normativity of action- or attitude-guiding language; the other is the normativity of reasons for actions or attitudes. I am going to argue that the normativity of language and the normativity of reasons have much less to do with each other than is generally supposed. My suggestion is that Hume’s argument about ‘is’ and ‘ought’, which is an argument about language, has very little to do with his argument about reason and the passions, which is an argument about reasons.
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