Main Research Lines & Projects on Teorefilo

Research Project on Relativism

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Flow Chart Diagram of the Project

The diagram illustrates the relations among the theoretical key concepts of the project. Explanations will follow the diagram.

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sequenceDiagram
alt God exists
rect rgb(62, 104, 159)
 Metaethics->>Ethics: Foundational relation
 Ethics-->>Metaethics: Depends upon God
 Ethics->>Natural Law: Moral principles of NL
end
else God does not exist
 rect rgb(159, 84, 74)
 Ethics-->>Metaethics: Relativism = no Ethics
 end
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#Note right of Ethics: No Ethics=Ethical
Relativism
alt God exists
 rect rgb(62, 104, 159)
 Metaethics->>Ethics: Moral goodness is founded
 Ethics->>Natural Law: Moral obligation is founded
 end
else God does not exist
 rect rgb(159, 84, 74)
 Ethics-->>Metaethics: No moral goodness
 Ethics-->>Metaethics: No moral obligation
 end
end

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Research Project for the Foundation of a Theistic Metaethics

Tue, 22 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The “Is-Ought Question” and the Aristotelian-Thomistic Metaphysics

Meta–ethics distinguishes from the field of ethics in focusing research on what makes ethics possible qua talis, rather than direclty dealing with the thorough foundation of specific ethical theories or, like in applied ethics, with some specific ethical issues.

Indeed my deep interest in metaethics is due to the relevance that the central question about God’s existence cannot be denied to play in order to establish ethics’ true foundation and essence. In particular — against the post–kantian ideological fashon that affirms an always more radical independence of ethics from ontology and metaphysics, a tendency further enhanced by what I hold to be the wrong interpretations of the so called “Is-Ought Question”— the main point of my research is that everything changes in ethics if God exists or if does not exist.

Theoretical Architecture of my Overal Research Path

Mon, 22 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

General “State” Diagram

In computer science state diagrams are used to describe the behavior of systems, on the assumption that behaviors are composed by a finite number of correlated states. I use the same method for giving a graphical reppresentation of the fundamental skeleton that structures my overall research path, given that philosophizing is an activity composed by a finite number of circular processes of thought; where circularity entails an always renewed state of deeper synthetic understanding of the whole through its parts. The mentioned circular process is also the result of how the distance between what is true “quoad se” and what is true “quoad nos” can be reduced by the philosophical research activity, as the natural development of our understanding goes from what is less noble to what is more noble “in se”.