Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199579969)

In Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism David Enoch develops, argues for, and defends a strongly realist and objectivist view of ethics and normativity more broadly. This view--according to which there are perfectly objective, universal, moral and other normative truths that are not in any way reducible to other, natural truths--is familiar, but this book is the first in-detail development of the positive motivations for the view into reasonably precise arguments. And when the book turns defensive--defending Robust Realism against traditional objections--it mobilizes the original positive arguments for the view to help with fending off the objections.
The main underlying motivation for Robust Realism developed in the book is that no other metaethical view can vindicate our taking morality seriously. The positive arguments developed here--the argument from the deliberative indispensability of normative truths, and the argument from the moral implications of metaethical objectivity (or its absence)--are thus arguments for Robust Realism that are sensitive to the underlying, pre-theoretical motivations for the view.

Author: David Enoch
ISBN-10: 0199579962
ISBN-13: 9780199579969
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 09/25/2011
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2012