Binding: Paperback
Description: It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism relativism hypocrisy and nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity or sticking to duty or insisting on our rights we can be confused or be paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless. Many are afraid that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic or competitive and aggressive. Simon Blackburn author of the best - selling Think structures this short introduction around these and other threats to ethics. Confronting seven different objections to our self - image as moral well - behaved creatures he charts a course through the philosophical quicksands that often engulf us. Then turning to problems of life and death he shows how we should think about the meaning of life and how we should mistrust the sound - bite sized absolutes that often dominate moral debates. Finally he offers a critical tour of the ways the philosophical tradition has tried to provide foundations for ethics from Plato and Aristotle through to contemporary debates.
Title: Being Good A Short Introduction To Ethics
Author(s): Blackburn Simon (Professor Of Philosophy University Of Cambridge)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192853776
Pages: 176 Pages, 12 Halftones
Publication Date: 4/17/2003
Category: Social & Political Philosophy