Artykuł ten omawia źródła filozofii moralnej Ernsta Blocha, sformułowanej częściowo jako odpowiedź na relatywizm moralny Simmela. Przedstawia on również teorię Blocha jako spójny przykład tego, co Charles Taylor nazwał „ekspresywizmem”: stanowiska filozoficznego kładącego nacisk na transgresywny charakter tworzenia wartości. W końcu, artykuł wskazuje na niedostatki ekspresywizmu Blocha, podkreślając konieczność uzupełnienia go normami zabezpieczającymi ludzką godność (której był świadomy sam Bloch).
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This article describes the origin of Bloch’s moral theory, which was formulated partly as a response to Simmel’s moral relativism. It also shows that Bloch’s theory is a coherent example of what Charles Taylor calls “expressivism,” a contemporary philosophical attitude which emphasizes the creation of values, with its transgressive character. Finally, the article addresses some shortcomings of Bloch’s expressivist moral theory, and emphasizes the necessity this author felt to complete it with norms ensuring human dignity.
There has been a great deal of discussion in the recent philosophical literature of the relationship between the minimalist theory of truth and the expressivist metaethical theory. One group of philosophers contends that minimalism and expressivism are compatible, the other group contends that such theories are incompatible. Following Simon Blackburn (manuscript), I will call the former position ‘compatibilism’ and the latter position‘incompatiblism.’ Even those compatibilist philosophers who hold that there is no conflict or tension between these two theories-minimalism and expressivism-typically think that some revision of minimalism is required to accommodate expressivism. The claim that there is such an incompatibility, I will argue, is based on a misunderstanding of the historical roots of expressivism, the motivations behind the expressivist theory, and the essential commitments of expressivism. I will present an account of the expressivist theory that is clearly consistent with minimalism.
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