----- Original Message ----- From: "Luke Weiger" <lweiger at umich.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 2:33 PM Subject: Re: Cheap Morality, was Re: anti-zionism
> Carrol wrote:
> > Are "moral positions" being confused with attitudes of approval or
> > condemnation? And is it assumed (and if so on what basis) that any
act
> > of approval or disapproval is (tautologically) a moral judgment?
>
> Ethics is concerned with assessments of value. An agent's approval or
> disapproval for any given act, person, or thing relies upon some sort
of
> judgment (or, if, Carrol prefers, disposition) to regard the act,
person, or
> thing as being valuable or lacking in value.
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What's a non-circular definition of value?
Ian