Czeżowski's Axiological Concepts as Full-Fledged Modalities. We Must either Make What is Good, or Become Revisionists

• Authors: Manuel Rebuschi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This short paper provides a tentative formalization of Czeżowski's ideas about axiological concepts: Good and Evil are conceived of as modalities rather than as predicates. A natural account of the resulting “ethical logic” appears to be very close to standard deontic logic. If one does not resolve to become an antirealist regarding moral values, a possible way out is to become a revisionist about deontology: convert to intuitionism or some other kind of revisionism in deontic logic, and remain classical in ethical logic.

Keywords

EN

Good; evil; modality (logic); deontic logic; ethics; ethical logic

• Publisher: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie
• Journal: Forum Philosophicum
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 103-110

Dates

published

2008

Contributors

author

Manuel Rebuschi

• Poincaré Archives, Nancy University

References

• Czeżowski, Tadeusz, and A. M. Galon. “Ethics as an Empirical Science.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 14, no.2 (1949): 163–171.
• Gawor, Leszek, and Lech Zdybel. “Elements of Twentieth Century Polish Ethics.” In Polish Axiology: The 20th Century and Beyond, edited by Stanisław. Jedynak. Polish Philosophical Studies, V. Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change, Series IVA, Central and Eastern Europe, Volume 25. http://www.crvp.org/book/series04/iva-25/chapter_ii.htm.
• Łukasiewicz, Dariusz. “Metaphysics of Axiological Realism.” Philosophia Scientiae 12, no. 1 (2008): 57–74.
• McNamara, Paul. “Deontic Logic.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta. Stanford, CA: Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, 1996. Last modified February 7, 2006. http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2006/entries/logic-deontic/.

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10.5840/forphil20081317

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