Self-Evidence and A Priori Moral Knowledge
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[1] Colorado State University
Colorado State University
Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Disputatio, ISSN-e 0873-626X, Vol. 4, Nº. 33, 2012, págs. 459-467
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
According to rationalists about moral knowledge, some moral truths are knowable a priori. Rationalists often defend their position by claiming that some moral propositions are self-evidently true. Copp 2007 has recently challenged this rationalist strategy. Copp argues that even if some moral propositions are self-evident, this is not enough to secure rationalism about moral knowledge, since it turns out that such self-evident propositions are only knowable a posteriori. This paper considers the merits of Copp’s challenge. After clarifying the rationalists’ appeal to self-evidence, I show why this rationalist strategy survives Copp’s challenges to it
