Understanding Moral Obligation

In many histories of modern ethics, Kant is supposed to have ushered in an anti-realist or constructivist turn by holding that unless we ourselves ''author'' or lay down moral norms and values for ourselves, our autonomy as agents will be threatened. In this book, Robert Stern challenges the cogency of this ''argument from autonomy'', and claims that Kant never subscribed to it. Rather, it is not ...