Realist Ethics

Realist Ethics
Title Realist Ethics PDF eBook
Author Valerie Morkevičius
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 273
Release 2018-02
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 110841589X

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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

Ethical Realism
Title Ethical Realism PDF eBook
Author Anatol Lieven
Publisher Vintage
Pages 226
Release 2009-03-12
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0307495337

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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

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

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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

Moral Realism
Title Moral Realism PDF eBook
Author Kevin DeLapp
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 209
Release 2013-04-11
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 144116118X

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An accessible and original overview of contemporary debates in moral realism and relativism.

Taking Morality Seriously

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

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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

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

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

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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.