What is this thing called Metaethics? van Matthew Chrisman is een Engelstalig gedrukt boek. Deze titel is geschikt voor studenten in het hoger onderwijs.
What makes something morally right? Where do our ethical standards come from? Are they relative to cultures or timeless and universal? Are there any objective moral facts? What is goodness? If there are moral facts, how do we learn about them? What do we mean when we say someone ought to do something? These are all questions in metaethics, the branch of ethics that investigates the status of morality, the nature of ethical value, the possibility of ethical knowledge, and the meaning of ethical statements. To the uninitiated it can appear abstract and far removed from its two more concrete cousins, ethical theory and applied ethics, yet it is one of the fastest-growing and most exciting areas of ethics. What is this thing called Metaethics? demystifies this important subject and is ideal for students coming to it for the first time. Beginning with a brief overview of metaethics and the development of a "conceptual toolkit," Matthew Chrisman introduces and assesses the following key topics: ethical reality: including questions about naturalism and non-naturalism, moral facts, and the distinction between realism and antirealism; ethical language: does language represent reality?
Revised and updated throughout, the second edition of What is this thing called Metaethics? demystifies this important subject and is ideal for students coming to it for the first time.
Inhoudelijk sluit dit boek aan bij onderwerpen als Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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