Essays on the History of Ethics

摘要

Metaethically, Slote gains a noncircular explanation of the nature of moral judgments, for the moral approvals (or disapprovals) explaining them spring from nonjudgmental empathy. [...] Slote claims that empathy supports and explains the cognitive validity and "objective prescriptivity" of moral judgments, for the motivational force in empathy can enter into and explain their intrinsically motivational character.