David Clark - Empirical Realism: Meaning and the Generative Foundation of Morality - Book

David Clark

Empirical RealismMeaning and the Generative Foundation of Morality\nAuthor(s): David Clark\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9780739107669, 978-0739107669\nSynopsis\n\""Only in the darkest of hours will a few seriously entertain the haunting possibility, almost unthinkable, that at the end of the day our best sense of the world, and of what is abidingly good, is an error.\"" Does then the universe really have a guiding moral structure which is at once integral to the quality of human life? Empirical Realism is Clark's sustained, challenging and original argument for moral realism, one which not only provides the badly needed account of normativityof what it is exactly that constitutes genuine moral obligationbut which also anchors that account within a comprehensive philosophical theory. The author's position, rigorously developed and defended, provides a trek through issues central to classical and contemporary p.