Realist Ethics
Title | Realist Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Valerie Morkevičius |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2018-02 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 110841589X |
Appealing to just war thinkers, international relations scholars, policymakers, and the public, this book claims that the historical Christian, Islamic, and Hindu just war traditions reflect political concerns with domestic and international order. This underlying realism serves to counterbalance the overly optimistic approach of contemporary liberal just war approaches.
Ethical Realism
Title | Ethical Realism PDF eBook |
Author | Anatol Lieven |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2009-03-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0307495337 |
America today faces a world more complicated than ever before, but our politicians have failed to envision a foreign policy that addresses our greatest threats. Ethical Realism shows how the United States can successfully combine genuine morality with tough and practical common sense. By outlining core principles and a set of concrete proposals for tackling the terrorist threat and contend with Iran, Russia, the Middle East, and China, Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman show us how to strengthen our security, pursue our national interests, and restore American leadership in the world.
Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics
Title | Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | David Owen Brink |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 1989-02-24 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780521359375 |
A systematic analysis considers the objectivity of ethics, the relationship between the moral point of view and a scientific or naturalist worldview and its role in a person's rational lifespan.
Moral Realism
Title | Moral Realism PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin DeLapp |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2013-04-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 144116118X |
An accessible and original overview of contemporary debates in moral realism and relativism.
Taking Morality Seriously
Title | Taking Morality Seriously PDF eBook |
Author | David Enoch |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2011-07-28 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 019161856X |
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.
Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Title | Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction PDF eBook |
Author | Sohail H. Hashmi |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 558 |
Release | 2004-07-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521545266 |
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Moral Realism
Title | Moral Realism PDF eBook |
Author | Russ Shafer-Landau |
Publisher | Oxford University Press on Demand |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780199280209 |
Moral Realism is a systematic defence of the idea that there are objective moral standards. In the tradition of Plato and G. E. Moore, Russ Shafer-Landau argues that there are moral principles that are true independently of what anyone, anywhere, happens to think of them. These principles are a fundamental aspect of reality, just as much as those that govern mathematics or the natural world. They may be true regardless of our ability to grasp them, and their truth is not a matter of theirbeing ratified from any ideal standpoint, nor of being the object of actual or hypothetical consensus, nor of being an expression of our rational nature. Shafer-Landau accepts Plato's and Moore's contention that moral truths are sui generis. He rejects the currently popular efforts to conceive of ethics as a kind of science, and insists that moral truths and properties occupy a distinctive area in our ontology. Unlike scientific truths, the fundamental moral principles are knowable a priori. And unlike mathematical truths, they are essentially normative: intrinsically action-guiding, and supplying a justification for all who follow their counsel. Moral Realism is the first comprehensive treatise defending non-naturalistic moral realism in over a generation. It ranges over all of the central issues in contemporary metaethics, and will be an important source of discussion for philosophers and their students interested in issues concerning the foundations of ethics.