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Author_Mark Platts
Belief Desire Pair
Calm Passions
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characterizations
Cognitive State
Conative State
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Descriptive Metaphysics
descriptive metaphysics of morals
desirability
Desirability Characterizations
desires
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ethical naturalism
General Moral Judgements
General Relativist Structure
Genuine Moral Worth
Hume's Moral Theory
Humean ethics
Humean Suggestion
Hume’s Moral Theory
judith
Miss Anscombe
Monolithic Doctrine
moral relativism
moral scepticism
Moral Thought
motivated
Motivated Desires
Motivating Considerations
Mrs Foot
Nietzsche 1966a
Nietzsche 1968b
philosophical
philosophy of mind
Potential Desires
propositional
Propositional States
psychology
Real Virtue
Small Attention
Tequila Sunrise
thought
Unmotivated Desires
value theory
Product details
- ISBN 9780415058926
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 02 May 1991
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Scepticism about morality is as old as morality itself. Philosophers have attacked the `singular institution' of morality, but have these sceptics correctly identified their target? In this book a descriptive metaphysics of morals is presented, revealing how philosophical critics have consistently misidentified the institution of morality. Mark Platts' influential first book Ways of Meaning argued within the context of the philosophy of language that a `realist' account of moral thought was possible; Moral Realities defends the same possibility from the perspective of the philosophy of psychology. Platts engages the classical moral philosophies of Hume, Mandeville and Nietzsche, and tackles the powerful arguments of the contemporary moral relativists. His critique of the existing philosophical notions of desire and value enables him to clarify both what morality is and what it is not.
