Decided Quote by Torbjorn Tannsjo

I am indeed a moral realist.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

I bill myself as a naturalist because if you say you're a naturalist, it gives people a conversation point to talk about what you…

— Greg Graffin

“One salutary development in recent ethical theorizing is the widespread recognition that no short argument will serve to eliminate any of the major metaethical…

— Russ Shafer-Landau

Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale…

— Satish Kumar

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage…

— Anonymous

I love many realists but very strongly resist the notion that realism presents a less stylized, more authentic version of the world.

— Laura van den Berg

“But although realism does not add anything to the catalogue of entities or properties that a subjectivist believes to exist in the world, it…

— Thomas Nagel

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

— Joseph Butler

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

— Ben Okri

The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that…

— Charles Colson

I am not interested in representing reality. Actually, I am interested in representing reality, but that doesn't mean a naturalistic approach, which I think…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.

— Phillip E. Johnson