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Widespread moral disagreement raises ethical, epistemological, political, and metaethical questions. Is the best explanation of our widespread moral disagreements that there are no objective moral facts and that moral relativism is correct? Or should we think that just as there is widespread disagreement about whether we have free will but there is still an objective fact about whether we have it, similarly, moral disagreement has no bearing on whether morality is objective? More practically, is it arrogant to stick to our guns in the face of moral disagreement? Must we suspend belief about the morality of controversial actions such as eating meat and having an abortion? And does moral disagreement affect the laws that we should have? For instance, does disagreement about the justice of heavily redistributive taxation affect whether such taxation is legitimate? In this thorough and clearly written introduction to moral disagreement and its philosophical and practical implications, Richard Rowland examines and assesses the following topics and questions: * How does moral disagreement affect what we should do and believe in our day-to-day lives? * Epistemic peerhood and moral disagre

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Richard Rowland
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Published
2020
Language
EN
ISBN
9780429957697
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Philosophy, Social Science, Humanities

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