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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Niederbacher, Bruno

Titel

Was ist ein moralisches Gesetz?

Ist Teil von

• Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie, 2017-01, Vol.139 (4), p.373-386

Ort / Verlag

Echter Verlag GmbH

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article offers a new answer to the question: What is a moral law? This is a metaphysical question about the nature or the essence of a moral law, about the entities that constitute a moral law. »Moral law« refers to the state of affairs which is expressed in such material universal moral statements like »Stealing is morally wrong« or »Helping the needy is morally right«. In the past, several answers have been given to the question as to what moral laws are by applying the metaphysics of natural laws. This article presents three such answers and some of their deficiencies. Then it offers and develops a further answer according to which a moral law consists of an action-kind being characterized by a moral property-universal. Moreover, a solution is offered to the problem of how there can be exceptions from the moral law.