Publisher's Synopsis
"This book provides a cumulative case for moral realism, the combination of both prescriptivity and objectivity. It provides positive arguments to believe in morality realistically construed, from Moorean arguments to indispensability arguments to from partners in guilt arguments to C. S. Lewis's arguments in The Abolition of Man. It also discusses defenses of such robust moral objectivity ranging from queerness objections to moral arguments against morality to debunking objections to moral knowledge. It offers critiques of several alternative views provided by the likes of Friedrich Nietzsche, error theory, classical expressivism, constructivism, and sensibility theory. It also takes up issues related to whether laws require lawgivers. It delves as well into evidential considerations that go beyond the purely philosophical-ranging from the aesthetic to nondiscursive, from the affective to the literary. In the process it endorses a gene
