Commitment, Value, and Moral Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Commitment, Value, and Moral Realism write by Marcel S. Lieberman. This book was released on 1998-09-24. Commitment, Value, and Moral Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the importance of commitment in moral and political philosophy, there has hitherto been little extended analysis of it. Marcel Lieberman examines the conditions under which commitment is possible, and offers at the same time an indirect argument for moral realism. He argues that realist evaluative beliefs are functionally required for commitment - especially regarding its role in self-understanding - and since it is only within a realist framework that such beliefs make sense, realism about values is a condition for the possibility of commitment itself. His ambitious study addresses questions that are of great interest to analytic philosophers but also makes many connections with continental philosophy and with folk psychology, sociology and cognitive science, and will be seen as a distinctive intervention in the debate about moral realism.
The Conditions and Possibility of Commitment: an Argument for Moral Realism
The Conditions and Possibility of Commitment: an Argument for Moral Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Conditions and Possibility of Commitment: an Argument for Moral Realism write by Marcel Sima Lieberman. This book was released on 1996. The Conditions and Possibility of Commitment: an Argument for Moral Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Taking Morality Seriously
Taking Morality Seriously - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taking Morality Seriously write by David Enoch. This book was released on 2011-07-28. Taking Morality Seriously available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism David Enoch develops, argues for, and defends a strongly realist and objectivist view of ethics and normativity more broadly. This view—according to which there are perfectly objective, universal, moral and other normative truths that are not in any way reducible to other, natural truths—is familiar, but this book is the first in-detail development of the positive motivations for the view into reasonably precise arguments. And when the book turns defensive—defending Robust Realism against traditional objections—it mobilizes the original positive arguments for the view to help with fending off the objections. The main underlying motivation for Robust Realism developed in the book is that no other metaethical view can vindicate our taking morality seriously. The positive arguments developed here—the argument from the deliberative indispensability of normative truths, and the argument from the moral implications of metaethical objectivity (or its absence)—are thus arguments for Robust Realism that are sensitive to the underlying, pre-theoretical motivations for the view.
Moral Realism
Moral Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moral Realism write by Kevin DeLapp. This book was released on 2013-04-11. Moral Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An accessible and original overview of contemporary debates in moral realism and relativism.
Praise and Blame
Praise and Blame - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Praise and Blame write by Daniel N. Robinson. This book was released on 2009-04-11. Praise and Blame available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How should a prize be awarded after a horse race? Should it go to the best rider, the best person, or the one who finishes first? To what extent are bystanders blameworthy when they do nothing to prevent harm? Are there any objective standards of moral responsibility with which to address such perennial questions? In this fluidly written and lively book, Daniel Robinson takes on the prodigious task of setting forth the contours of praise and blame. He does so by mounting an important and provocative new defense of a radical theory of moral realism and offering a critical appraisal of prevailing alternatives such as determinism and behaviorism and of their conceptual shortcomings. The version of moral realism that arises from Robinson's penetrating inquiry--an inquiry steeped in Aristotelian ethics but deeply informed by modern scientific knowledge of human cognition--is independent of cognition and emotion. At the same time, Robinson carefully explores how such human attributes succeed or fail in comprehending real moral properties. Through brilliant analyses of constitutional and moral luck, of biosocial and genetic versions of psychological determinism, and of relativistic-anthropological accounts of variations in moral precepts, he concludes that none of these conceptions accounts either for the nature of moral properties or the basis upon which they could be known. Ultimately, the theory that Robinson develops preserves moral properties even while acknowledging the conditions that undermine the powers of human will.
