Abstract
This short paper provides a tentative formalization of Czeżowski's ideas about axiological concepts: Good and Evil are conceived of as modalities rather than as predicates. A natural account of the resulting “ethical logic” appears to be very close to standard deontic logic. If one does not resolve to become an antirealist regarding moral values, a possible way out is to become a revisionist about deontology: convert to intuitionism or some other kind of revisionism in deontic logic, and remain classical in ethical logic.
Highlights
Czeżowski provided an original conception of axiological concepts as objective and distinct from natural properties
It can be good or not that it is true, as well as it can be necessary or not that it is true. [Łukasiewicz 2008] the attribution of goodness to some fact or event should be like prefixing a sentence with some modal operator rather than applying a predicate to anentity
Ethical logic Going into formalization, classical propositional logic can be extended with a sentential operator G: Gp being read “p is good”, or “it is good that p”, where p and other atomic letters denote assessable facts, events or states of affairs
Summary
Czeżowski’s axiological concepts as full-fledged modalities: We must either make what is good, or become revisionists. HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés
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