Neo-naturalism

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  • Philippa Foot
  • What is Neo-naturalism?
    holds that virtue (sort of natural property) plays a key role in ethics
  • Foot: virtues depend on a certain biological and sociological facts about human)
  • Scientific facts do not lead away from virtue but towards it
  • Biology and sociology can direct us to see what is virtuous so individuals should strive to us to see what is virtuous, so individuals should strive to recognise, pursue and attain virtues that can lead to human flourishing
  • We can see that morality does have a factual content, namely the flourishing content, namely the flourishing of human beings
    this is content is not absolute but it is objective being really 'in' the natural world
  • Objectivist and cognitivist