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Moral Realism
“Can an act be unjust even when everyone approves of it?”
01 / SUMMARY
In short
Moral realism broadly holds that at least some moral claims state facts whose truth does not depend on our approval. Realists disagree about what kind of facts these could be.
03 / SCENE
In the wild
A realist can hold that enslavement was wrong even in societies where law and custom accepted it.
04 / LIMIT
The limit
It guarantees neither consensus nor certainty nor a special faculty that detects value without argument.
FINAL NOTE
What remains
Separate the popularity of a judgment from the question of what would make it true.