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Mar 2024
38m 29s

The Vagueness of Demandingness Objection...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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A St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, recorded at St Cross College, Oxford in February 2024. Demandingness objections have become a stock argument in ethics claiming that single moral demands or entire moral theories must be given up or altered if they ask too much of agents. But can we clearly distinguish an acceptable level of demandingness from one that is t ... Show More
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