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Rationalism, Realism, and Relativism : Perspectives in Contemporary Moral Epistemology / Robert L. Arrington.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1989Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501745409
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 171 20
LOC classification:
  • BJ1031 .A77 1989
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Moral Reasoning -- 2. Moral Judgments -- 3. Moral Rationalism -- 4. Moral Realism -- 5. Relativism -- 6. Conceptual Relativism -- Index
Summary: During the 1970s and 1980s, the field of ethics underwent a profound change in perspective from noncognitivism to cognitivism regarding moral judgments and reasoning. Although metaethical noncognitivism had been the predominant point of view during the previous three decades, a series of attacks had undermined its authority by the 1970s, and it gave way to the cognitivist belief that moral judgments have truth values. This book provides a descriptive and critical guide to the often bewildering scene that resulted from these controversies in contemporary moral epistemology.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Moral Reasoning -- 2. Moral Judgments -- 3. Moral Rationalism -- 4. Moral Realism -- 5. Relativism -- 6. Conceptual Relativism -- Index

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During the 1970s and 1980s, the field of ethics underwent a profound change in perspective from noncognitivism to cognitivism regarding moral judgments and reasoning. Although metaethical noncognitivism had been the predominant point of view during the previous three decades, a series of attacks had undermined its authority by the 1970s, and it gave way to the cognitivist belief that moral judgments have truth values. This book provides a descriptive and critical guide to the often bewildering scene that resulted from these controversies in contemporary moral epistemology.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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