Understanding Through Explanation in Ethics1

In morality, as in science, we seek understanding through explanation. While old fashioned non-naturalistic moral realism renders such explanation available to us, neither moral irrealism nor moral naturalism does. This does not prove any of these theories wrong, of course. It does indicate, however, that, if we feel that we have to resort to them, there is a high intellectual price to be paid

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