Czeżowski's axiological concepts as full-fledged modalities

Manuel Rebuschi (1)

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This short note 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 other kind of revisionism for deontic logic, and remain classical for ethical logic.

Domaines: Philosophie

Manuel Rebuschi. Czeżowski's axiological concepts as full-fledged modalities: We must either make what is good, or become revisionists. Forum Philosophicum, 2008, 13 (1), pp.103-110. ⟨hal-00351729⟩