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Laozian metaethics
| dc.check.date | 2025-10-07 | en |
| dc.check.info | Access to this article is restricted until 12 months after publication by request of the publisher | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Dockstader, Jason | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-11-19T15:36:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-11-19T15:36:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-10-07 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper contributes to the emerging field of comparative metaethics by offering a reconstruction of the metaethical views implicit to the Daoist classic, the Laozi 老子 or Daodejing 道德經. It offers two novel views developed out of the Laozi: one-all value monism and moral trivialism. The paper proceeds by discussing Brook Ziporyn’s reading of the Laozi in terms of omnipresence and irony, and then applies his reading to moral properties like values and names (ming 名). The paper emboldens Ziporyn’s monistic tendencies in order to claim that the Laozi not only treats the Dao as an omnipresent value, but also as the one value that is all values. I call this view one-all value monism. I then argue that, in terms of moral epistemology, one-all value monism entails moral trivialism, the view that all moral judgments are true. I conclude by emphasizing the therapeutic motivation for holding such apparently outrageous metaethical views. The paper thus defends the basic claim that there is a point at which Ziporyn’s omnipresence and irony become monism and true contradiction, and that further exploring the consequences of these inevitable transitions leads to the discovery of novel metaethical views. | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Accepted Version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.articleid | 68 | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Dockstader, J. (2024) 'Laozian metaethics', Asian Journal of Philosophy, 3, 68 (19pp). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44204-024-00198-z | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/s44204-024-00198-z | en |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 19 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2731-4642 | en |
| dc.identifier.journaltitle | Asian Journal of Philosophy | en |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 1 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/16654 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 3 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Springer Nature | en |
| dc.rights | © 2024, the Author, under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. This version of the paper has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s44204-024-00198-z | en |
| dc.subject | Daoism | en |
| dc.subject | Laozi | en |
| dc.subject | Metaethics | en |
| dc.subject | Value monism | en |
| dc.subject | Trivialism | en |
| dc.title | Laozian metaethics | en |
| dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
| oaire.citation.issue | 2 | en |
| oaire.citation.volume | 3 | en |
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