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Goodnes, God, and evil

Most contemporary versions of moral realism are beset with difficulties. Many of these difficulties arise because of a faulty conception of the nature of goodness. Goodness, God, and Evil lays out and defends a new version of moral realism that re-conceives the nature of goodness. Alexander argues that the adjective ''good'' is best thought of as an attributive adjective and not as a predicative one. In other words, the adjective ''good'' logically cannot be detached from the noun (or noun phrase) that it modifies. It is further argued that this conception of the function of the adject.

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