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ON GOOD AND ‘GOOD’
by
Robert Elstone Shanklin III
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(PHILOSOPHY)
August 2011
Copyright 2011 Robert Elstone Shanklin III
Object Description
| Title | On good and 'good' |
| Author | Shanklin, Robert E., III |
| Author email | shanklin@usc.edu;bobm3477@hotmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Philosophy |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 4/8/2011 |
| Date submitted | 7/18/2011 |
| Date approved | 7/18/2011 |
| Restricted until | 7/18/2011 |
| Date published | 7/18/2011 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Higginbotham, James |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Schroeder, Mark Finlay, Stephen Schein, Barry |
| Abstract | Many fundamental questions in Ethics concern the nature and structure of goodness. While investigations of goodness have often attended to the variety of ways in which we use the word ‘good,’ I take a distinctive approach by turning to recent results from theoretical Linguistics. Cross-linguistic evidence strongly suggests that ‘good’ has a single meaning. However, a close look at the formal grammar of ‘good’ suggests that there are indeed robustly distinct ways in which we use ‘good,’ which do not collapse into some fundamental or paradigmatic one (as some have argued). Hence, I motivate and defend the view that ‘good’ is highly contextually sensitive such that its interpretation is affected not only by the various contexts in which we use it, but also by the various sentences in which we use it. In light of these insights, I propose answers to fundamental questions such as “which of the various uses of ‘good’ are ethically significant?”…“what, if anything, do all good things have in common?”…“is goodness a property?” and “what relations does moral goodness bear to other sorts of goodness?” |
| Keyword | metaethics; value; goodness; moral; language; linguistics; good |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Rights | Shanklin, Robert E., III |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume71/etd-ShanklinRo-115.pdf |
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| Full text | ON GOOD AND ‘GOOD’ by Robert Elstone Shanklin III A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PHILOSOPHY) August 2011 Copyright 2011 Robert Elstone Shanklin III |
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