RT Article
T1 Real Politics and Metaethical Baggage
JF Ethical theory and moral practice
VO 18
IS 5
SP 1083
OP 1100
A1 Nye, Sebastian
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1565702549
AB So-called 'realists' have argued that political philosophers should engage with real politics, but that mainstream 'non-realist' political philosophers fail to do so. Perhaps surprisingly, many of the discussions between realists and their critics have not drawn much on debates in metaethics. In this paper, I argue that this is an oversight. There are important connections between the realism/non-realism debate and certain controversies in metaethics. Both realism and non-realism come with metaethical baggage. By considering several arguments that could be made for and against both positions, each of which rests on contested views about the metaphysics and epistemology of value, I outline exactly which metaethical claims realists and nonrealists must defend in order to make their position tenable.
K1 Metaethics
K1 Methodology
K1 Political Philosophy
K1 political realism
DO 10.1007/s10677-015-9590-8