Ethics Paperback / softback
Edited by Allen (Trinity College, Cambridge) Phillips-Griffiths
Part of the Talking Philosophy series
Paperback / softback
Description
Ethical questions are often associated with practical dilemmas: questions in morality, in other words.
This volume, by contrast, asks questions about morality: what it is, and to what it owes its precarious authority over us.
The focus on metaethics is sustained throughout, via a wide range of philosophical perspectives.
Distinguished luminaries who include R. M. Hare and Bernard Williams address keenly debated issues such as what constitutes morality in politics; the relationship between education and ethical standards; and whether or not morality can indeed be defined at all.
As Nikhil Krishnan writes in his elegant Foreword, 'The plain-speaking, essayistic grace of these essays, speaks nevertheless of the possibility of moral philosophy, written with an eye to a listener, very possibly not a professional philosopher, who has the right to say, ''This is all very well, your neat little theory, but it doesn't ring true.
Things are more complicated than that.'''
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:433 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:09/06/2022
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- ISBN:9781009107716
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:433 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:09/06/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009107716
