How Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law: Justifying Strict Objectivity Without Debating Moral Realism

by Kenneth R. Westphal

Kenneth R. Westphal presents an original interpretation of Hume's and Kant's moral philosophies, the differences between which are prominent in current philosophical accounts. Westphal argues that focussing on these differences, however, occludes a decisive, shared achievement: a distinctive constructivist method to identify basic moral principles and to justify their strict objectivity, without invoking moral realism nor moral anti-realism or irrealism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198747055
• ISBN13: 9780198747055
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.6"