NDLI: Kant’s Solution to the Euthyphro Dilemma

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Author	Bojawski, Jochen
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Are our actions morally good because we approve of them or are they good independently of our approval? Are we projecting moral values onto the world or do we detect values that are already there? For many these questions don’t state a real alternative but a secular variant of the Euthyphro dilemma: If our actions are good because we approve of them moral goodness appears to be arbitrary. If they are good independently of our approval, it is unclear how we come to know their moral quality and how moral knowledge can be motivating. None of these options seems attractive; the source of moral goodness unclear. Despite the growing literature on Kant’s moral epistemology and moral epistemology the question remains open what Kant’s answer to this apparent dilemma is. The Kantian view I attempt to lay out in this paper is supposed to dissolve the secular version of the Euthyphro dilemma. In responding to this dilemma we need to get clear about the source or the origin of our moral knowledge: Voluntary approval or mind-independent moral facts? Projectivism or detectivism? Construction or given? I believe that all these ways of articulating the problem turn out, on closer inspection, to be false alternatives.
Starting Page	1209
Ending Page	1228
Page Count	20
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00483893
Journal	Philosophia
Volume Number	44
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15749274
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2016-10-08
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Kant Constructivism Realism Anti-realism Metaethics Philosophy Epistemology Ethics Philosophy of Language Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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