Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: Starting with the Eye of the Beholder
1. No value without feeling
2. The primary argument
3. Three supporting arguments
4. Answering six common objections
5. Plato’s rejection of subjective morals
Chapter Two: Axiology, More Complicated Than It Looks
1. Categorizing values
2. Derivative value
3. Direct value
4. Immediate value
5. Summary of categories
6. Imperatives and priorities
7. Answering Plato’s cart-before-the-horse objection
Chapter Three: Varieties of Truth and Justification
1. Objectivity or bust
2. Circumstantial and contextual truth
3. Historical truth
4. Varieties of justification
5. Context-based justification
6. Summary
Chapter Four: A Phenomenology of Moral Values
1. Methodology
2. Origin
3. Subject matter
4. Functions
5. Concern
6. Priority
7. Extension: Impersonality, impartiality, inescapability, common sensicality, diversity
8. Summary and coordination
Chapter Five: Moral Relativism
1. Cultural relativism
2. The compulsion for moral values to be objective
3. Why should I be moral?
Chapter Six: The Right and the not so Good
1. Evaluating morality
2. The brighter side of morality: social coexistence
3. The brighter side: “true happiness”
4. The brighter side: nonhuman welfare
5. The darker side of morality: happiness
6. The darker side: liberty
7. The darker side: punishment, exploitation, intolerance, and zealotry
8. Circularity
9. An eye for an eye
10. Heat versus light
Chapter Seven: Inferences, Observations, and Speculations
1. Empathy, respect, and negative functioning
2. Moral persuasion
3. Religious morality
4. Recommendations
