Ebook {Epub PDF} Moral Reality by Paul Bloomfield

Abstract. The book is a work in metaethics, constituting a defense of moral realism. The book begins with what I call a “modest transcendental argument” for the existence of the property of moral goodness based on an acknowledgment of the possibility that personal moral failing may go forever undetected; as such this is an argument from error. The property of physical health, understood in terms of proper Author: Paul Bloomfield. Such thoughts push us toward being realists about moral properties, but a cogenttheory 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.4/5(1). Moral Reality by Paul Bloomfield is a readable, clear survey and rejection of those arguements that say ethics is but emotion and feeling, and therefore outside the true boundaries of philosophy. It says that moral claims CAN be accurately described as true or false.5/5(2).

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