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Metaethical Subjectivism (Paperback)
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Metaethical Subjectivism (Paperback)
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Metaethical subjectivism, the idea that the truth or falsity of
moral statements is contingent upon the attitudes or conventions of
observers, is often regarded as a lurid philosophical doctrine
which generates much psychological resistance to its acceptance. In
this accessible book, Richard Double, presents a vigorous defense
of metaethical subjectivism, arguing that the acceptance of this
doctrine need have no deleterious effects upon theorizing either in
normative ethics or in moral practice. Proceeding from a
'worldview' methodology Double criticizes the rival doctrine of
metaethical objectivism for lacking both 'completeness' and
'soundness', argues that a defense of metaethical subjectivism
requires no special semantic analysis of moral language and defends
the plausibility of metaethical subjectivism as explaining key
intractable disagreements in moral philosophy. Double concludes by
suggesting that the acceptance of metaethical subjectivism is
better for constructing theories of normative ethics and moral
practice than is metaethical objectivism.
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