What is realism in ethics?
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Realism in ethics is the view that moral language is orientated to some facts that are somehow there absolutely in the world.
Put another way, there are truth values for moral statements that if only we could all see we could agree on them.
Thus for instance 'murder is wrong' is somehow true absolutely as it correctly describes some moral fact that is there absolutely in reality.
When we engage in moral discourse we are trying to reach somehow these moral values and reflect them accurately.
For moral non-realists this is not the case and there are not moral truths out there in the world as some bizarre metaphysical entity. Rather we are discussing our emotions, preferences, natural instincts or something else besides when discussing things moral.
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