SUNY Series in Ethical Theory: The question of objectivity

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James Rachels
Oxford University Press, 1998 - Ethics
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
SCIENCE AND ETHICS
19
THE CONCEPTION OF INTRINSIC VALUE
28
THE NATURE OF ETHICAL DISAGREEMENT
43
A MORAL ARGUMENT
51
THE SUBJECTIVITY OF VALUES
58
ETHICS AND OBSERVATION
85
WHY CONTRACTARIANISM?
92
VALUE
109
TRUTH INVENTION AND THE MEANING OF LIFE
125
ETHICS AND THE FABRIC OF THE WORLD
169
MORAL EXPLANATIONS
180
VALUES AND SECONDARY QUALITIES
210
Two CONCEPTIONS OF MORAL REALISM
227
Notes on the Contributors
245
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