Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics

by David Owen Brink

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521350808
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/24/1989
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	5.71(w) x 8.78(h) x 0.98(d)

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.

Editorial Reviews

"David Brink's book is the best development, synthesis, and defense now available of a naturalistic moral realism." Ethics

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