Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics
Part of Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
- Author: David Owen Brink
- Date Published: February 1989
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521350808
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This book is a systematic and constructive treatment of a number of traditional issues at the foundations of ethics. These issues concern the objectivity of ethics, the possibility and nature of moral knowledge, the relationship between the moral point of view and a scientific or naturalist world-view, the nature of moral value and obligation, and the role of morality in a person's rational lifeplan. In striking contrast to traditional and more recent work in the field, David Brink offers an integrated defense of the objectivity of ethics.
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- Date Published: February 1989
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521350808
- length: 356 pages
- dimensions: 223 x 145 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.617kg
- availability: Available
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.
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