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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Simon Blackburn |
| ISBN: | 0192100521 9780192100528 |
| OCLC Number: | 51644518 |
| Description: | x, 162 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. |
| Contents: | Seven threats to ethics: Death of God -- Relativism -- Egoism -- Evolutionary theory -- Determinism and futility -- Unreasonable demands -- False consciousness -- Some ethical ideas: Birth -- Death -- Desire and the meaning of life -- Pleasure -- Greatest happiness of the greatest number -- Freedom from the bad -- Freedom and paternalism -- Rights and natural rights -- Foundations: Reasons and foundations -- Being good and living well -- Categorical imperative -- Contracts and discourse -- Common point of view -- Confidence restored -- Appendix: United Nations' universal declaration of human rights. |
| Responsibility: | Simon Blackburn. |
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"A brief introduction to ethics, one that plays lightly and gracefully over a number of philosophical themes, including the relationship between being good and living well."--Jim Holt, New Yorker<br> "A slender but rich meditation on why humans should choose to behave well when the possibilities for doing evil are so abundant. . . . Highly accessible, and highly rewarding."--Kirkus Reviews<br> "Simon Blackburn's short book takes the big moral questions head on and does so brilliantly...a witty, vivid writer with an enviable popular touch...this is a wonderfully enlightening book."--Ben Rogers, Sunday Telegraph<br> Read more...
