Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics
Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics
This book is a systematic and constructive treatment of a number of traditional issues at the foundation of ethics, the possibility and nature of moral knowledge, the relationship between the moral point of view and a scientific or naturalistic world view, the nature of moral value and obligation, and the role of morality in a person's rational life plan. In striking contrast to many traditional authors and to other recent writers in the field, David Brink offers an integrated defense of the objectivity of ethics.
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"David Brink's book is the best development, synthesis, and defense now available of a naturalistic moral realism." Ethics
Product details
February 1989Hardback
9780521350808
356 pages
223 × 145 × 25 mm
0.617kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Moral realism and moral inquiry
- 3. Externalist moral realism
- 4. Does moral realsim matter?
- 5. A coherentist moral epistemology
- 6. Moral realism and the is/ought thesis
- 7. Posteriori objections to moral realism
- 8. Objective utilitarianism
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index.
