Goodness, God, and Evil
Most contemporary versions of moral realism are beset with difficulties. Many of these difficulties arise because of a faulty conception of the nature of goodness. Goodness, God, and Evil lays out and defends a new version of moral realism that re-conceives the nature of goodness. Alexander argues that the adjective 'good' is best thought of as an attributive adjective and not as a predicative one. In other words, the adjective 'good' logically cannot be detached from the noun (or noun phrase) that it modifies. It is further argued that this conception of the function of the adjective implies that recent attempts to provide necessary a poste…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4411-7230-3
- EAN: 9781441172303
- Produktnummer: 33500157
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 168 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 415 KB
Über den Autor
David E. Alexander is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Huntington University, Indiana, USA.
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