Philosophy · Ethics & Moral Philosophy
A topic within Ethics & Moral Philosophy, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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Geoff Sayre-McCord
Distinguishes the different commitments bundled under 'moral realism' and argues the central one is simply that some moral claims are true independently of any particular person's attitude toward them.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Franz Brentano
Argues some of our value-judgements are correct not by convention but because they exhibit the right kind of emotional response to their object, giving ethics an objective foundation in the phenomenology of preferring.
link checked 17 Sept 2026