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moral realism: a standalone construct

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Ethics

the view that there are moral facts, here grounded naturalistically in what would be rational from a social point of view.

In ethics, moral realism refers to the view that there are moral facts, here grounded naturalistically in what would be rational from a social point of view. This meaning comes from Railton (1986) in The Philosophical Review.[1]

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Railton, P. (1986). Moral Realism. The Philosophical Review, 95(2), 163. https://doi.org/10.2307/2185589

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