Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780521359375 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 356 str.

David Owen Brink; Ernest Sosa; Jonathan Dancy

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'I hope and expect that publication will considerably advance the subject of moral philosophy by leading to a much higher level of discussion of the main issues.' Gilbert Harman, Princeton University

Spis treści

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.