Quietism

In David Copp (ed.), The Oxford handbook of ethical theory. New York: Oxford University Press (2006)
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Metaethical quietists agree with realists that moral judgments express beliefs and that some of those beliefs are true. But, quietists continue, this is so even though moral truths lacks truth-makers. To its advocates—including McDowell (1979), Lovibond (1983), Nagel (1997), Dworkin (1996), Rorty (1998), Kramer (2009), Parfit (2011), Scanlon (2014), Crary (2016), and Sepielli (2022)—quietism offers a simple way out of an otherwise intractable quagmire. To its detractors, what it offers is either utterly opaque or unacceptably anti-realist. That charge partly stems from the observation that most quietists mainly offer a negative program—as in Parfit's claim that normative properties exist "in a non-ontological sense" (2011: 747). This chapter critically evaluates the two leading accounts of quietism as a positive program: Scanlon's Being Realistic About Reasons and Sepielli's Pragmatist Quietism.

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