ABSTRACT
This chapter sketches an argument for ‘normative Neoplatonism’, the view that all of reality springs from a purely normative source. The argument, quite simply, is that the fate of objectivity depends on it. This chapter starts by identifying the sense of objectivity at stake. It then argues that, without normative Neoplatonism, objectivity in both thought and action is a complete non-starter: the possibility of objectively true beliefs, and objectively good actions, collapses in a heap and one is left with the philosophical outlook of Richard Rorty, on which the true and the good are not ‘out there’ to be discovered but are instead made-up by us.
