The View from Somewhere: Anthropocentrism in Metaethics

In Rob Boddice (ed.), Anthropocentrism: Humans, Animals, Environments. Leiden: Brill Publishers. pp. 37-57 (2011)
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This essay examines the ways in which objectivity and realism have been conceived in the history of Western ethics and meta-ethics, and looks to classical Daoism for an alternative framework.

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