caa a22 4500 60623828X CHVBK 20210128101257.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10677-015-9590-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10677-015-9590-8 Nye Sebastian Philosophy Faculty, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA, Cambridge, UK aut Real Politics and Metaethical Baggage [Elektronische Daten] [Sebastian Nye] 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. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 Political philosophy nationallicence Methodology nationallicence Political realism nationallicence Metaethics nationallicence Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/5(2015-11-01), 1083-1100 1386-2820 18:5<1083 2015 18 10677 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9590-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9590-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Nye Sebastian Philosophy Faculty, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA, Cambridge, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/5(2015-11-01), 1083-1100 1386-2820 18:5<1083 2015 18 10677