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On Deriving a Morally Significant ‘Ought’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Alan Gewirth
Affiliation:
University of Chicago

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1979

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References

1 Philosophy 51, No. 197 (07 1976), 346348.Google Scholar

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3 See Rynin, David, ‘The Autonomy of Morals’, Mind 66 (07 1957), 313Google Scholar; Tranoy, K. E., ‘“Ought” Implies “Can”: A Bridge from Fact to Norm’, Ratio 14 (1972)Google Scholar; Mavrodes, George I., ‘On Deriving the Normative from the Non-normative,’ Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 53 (1968), 353ff.Google Scholar

4 Gewirth, Alan, ‘The “Is-Ought” Problem Resolved’, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 47 (1974), 3461.CrossRefGoogle Scholar