Objectivism, Subjectivism, and Relativism in

Do we desire things because they are good, or are they good because we desire them? This question gets to the heart of the debate between moral objectivists and moral subjectivists. Objectivists answer that we desire things because they are good (that is, things are good or bad independently of our subjective mental states), while subjectivists answer that things are good because we desire them (that is, whether things are good or bad depends on our subjective mental states). A related question concerns the existence of disagreements over values and how these disagreements are to be explained. Does it make sense to account for moral disagreement by claiming, as the moral relativist does, that something might be good for one person but not good for another?

Introduction	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. xvi
Contributors	p. xvii
Substantive Moral Theory	p. 1
Virtue and Nature	p. 28
The Importance of Metaphysical Realism for Ethical Knowledge	p. 56
Why Moral Judgments Can Be Objective	p. 100
The Importance of the Subject in Objective Morality: Distinguishing Objective from Intrinsic Value	p. 126
Evaluative Concepts and Objective Values: Rand on Moral Objectivity	p. 149
Aristotelian Constructivism	p. 182
Moral Construction as a Task: Sources and Limits	p. 214
Constructing Normative Objectivity in Ethics	p. 237
What Does Moral Phenomenology Tell Us about Moral Objectivity?	p. 267
Imaginative Resistance and Psychological Necessity	p. 301
Objectivism and Relational Good	p. 314
Foundations in Aquinas's Ethics	p. 350
Revisionary Intuitionism	p. 368
Moral Objectivity	p. 393
Index	p. 411
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