Adding product to your cart
Author/Contributor(s): |
Phillips-Griffiths, Allen ; Krishnan, Nikhil
|
Publisher: |
Cambridge University Press
|
Date: |
06/09/2022
|
Binding: |
Paperback
|
Condition: |
NEW
|
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.'''
Use left/right arrows to navigate the slideshow or swipe left/right if using a mobile device