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Moral realism and the foundations of ethics / David O. Brink.
LIBRA BJ1012 .B676 1989
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brink, David O. (David Owen), 1958-
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in philosophy
- Cambridge studies in philosophy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics.
- Realism.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 340 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.
- Summary:
- This book is a systematic and constructive treatment of a number of traditional issues at the foundation of ethics. These issues concern the objectivity of ethics, the possibility and nature of moral knowledge, the relationship between the moral point of view and a scientific or naturalistic world view, the nature of moral value and obligation, and the role of morality in a person's rational life plan.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 323-334.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0521350808
- 0521359376
- OCLC:
- 17981537
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