The Moral Universe Paperback / softback
by John (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of T Bengson, Terence (Marsh Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, Marsh Professor of Intellectua Cuneo, Russ (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madis Shafer-Landau
Paperback / softback
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The Moral Universe marks an importance advance in metaethical thinking, offering the most sustained and sophisticated development of nonnaturalistic moral realism to date.
Employing a novel philosophical method, it addresses central questions in metaethics concerning the nature of moral reality, its fundamental laws, its relation to the natural world, and its normative authority.The authors advance new ways of answering these questions, contending that moral standards regarding what to do and how to be are not only objectively authoritative, but essentially so.Rather than arising from personal schemes or collective ideals, morality flows from the nature of things.
One of the principal aims of the book is to show how this view accommodates and explains a wide range of data concerning the metaphysical and normative dimensions of morality.
Along the way, the book offers novel characterizations of moral realism and nonnaturalism, defends and explains the existence of substantive moral conceptual truths, supplies a new treatment of moral supervenience, substantiates the categoricity and importance of moral reasons, and presents a strategy for identifying the source of morality.
Exemplifying a commitment to the integrity of moral philosophy,The Moral Universe also tackles fundamental issues in value theory and normative ethics in the service of developing a systematic, explanatorily potent version of nonnaturalist realism.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 4 illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:09/07/2024
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- ISBN:9780198914693
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Pre-Order
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, 4 illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:09/07/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198914693
