ABSTRACT
What I have called ‘independentism’ contends that moral judgements have their foundation independently of the moral agent and the context in which he is operating. However, as the last chapter tried to show, there are problems with this: if the independentist wants us to think that there are self-supporting sources of morality, outside of the head of the judge, he wants us to think something that is, at best, metaphysically problematic. If what is being pushed is the belief that these sources are not self-supporting but are nonetheless ‘independent’ in the sense that they are perspective-free, he is expecting us to accept a system that is no less problematic – albeit for different reasons –and we are no better off.
