Moral Reality

Name: Moral Reality
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ISBN: 9780195172393

ISBN-10: 0195172396

ISBN-13: 9780195172393

Edition: 2004

Authors: Paul Bloomfield

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We typically assume that the standard for what is beautiful lies in the eye of the beholder. Yet this is not the case when we consider morality; what we deem morally good is not usually a matter of opinion. Such thoughts push us toward being realists about moral properties, but a cogent theory of moral realism has long been an elusive philosophical goal. Paul Bloomfield here offers a rigorous defense of moral realism, developing an ontology for morality that models the property of being morally good on the property of being physically healthy. The model is assembled systematically; it first presents the metaphysics of healthiness and goodness, then explains our epistemic access to…

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List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/12/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.00" wide x 5.00" long x 5.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction: Protrepticus



Moral Metaphysics: Reality Unobserved


The Thesis


A Primer on Being Healthy


Healthiness, Conventions, and Relativism


Healthiness and Goodness


Supervenience and Reduction


Blackburn's Challenge to Moral Realism via Supervenience



Moral Epistemology: The Skill of Virtue


Outline for the Logos of Skillful Practice


Medical, Navigational, and Moral Theories


Stubborn Disagreement in Face of the Facts


Aristotle's Rejection of Virtues as Skills



Moral Language: The "Good" Rules


Following the Linguistic Turn


Semantics


Syntax



Moral Practicality: Externalism sans Magnetism


The Absurdity of Magnetic Tofu


Intuitions behind Internalism


Hume and Williams Meet Thrasymachus


Kant, Nagel, and Korsgaard Meet Anscombe


A Little Bit of Jimmy Carter in All of Us?



Entropy, Healthiness, and Goodness


Bibliography


Index