Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics

Klappentext This book is a systematic and constructive treatment of a number of traditional issues at the foundation 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 naturalistic world view, the nature of moral value and obligation, and the role of morality in a person's rational life plan. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: David Owen Brink
• Assisted by: Jonathan Dancy (Editor), Ernest Sosa (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.02.1989
• EAN: 9780521359375
• ISBN: 978-0-521-35937-5
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 220 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy; Cambridge Studies in Philosoph
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works