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Iris Murdoch, privacy, and the limits of moral testimony.
- Source :
- European Journal of Philosophy; Sep2022, Vol. 30 Issue 3, p1125-1134, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Recent discussions of moral testimony have focused on the acceptability of forming beliefs on the basis of moral testimony, but there has been little acknowledgement of the limits to testimony's capacity to convey moral knowledge. In this paper I outline one such limit, drawing on Iris Murdoch's conception of private moral concepts. Such concepts, I suggest, plausibly play an important role in moral thought, and yet moral knowledge expressed in them cannot be testimonially acquired. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- THEORY of knowledge
BELIEF & doubt
TESTIMONY (Theory of knowledge)
ETHICS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09668373
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- European Journal of Philosophy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 159609497
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12721