Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Taking Morality Seriously A Defense Of Robust Realism
Author(s): Enoch David (The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199683178
Pages: 308 Pages
Publication Date: 8/24/2013
Category: Ethics & Moral Philosophy