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The Myth of Morality

By Richard Joyce

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
9780511016554, 9780511487101, 0521808065, 0521036259, 051148710X, 0511016557, 9780521036252, 9780521808064
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
723 kB (740231 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Edition
1
Pages
266\263
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Richard Joyce argues in this study that moral discourse is hopelessly flawed. At the heart of ordinary moral judgments is a notion of moral inescapability, or practical authority, which, upon investigation, cannot be reasonably defended. He asserts, moreover, that natural selection is to blame, in that it has provided us with a tendency to invest the world with values that it does not contain, and demands that it does not make. This original and innovative book will appeal to readers interested in the problems of moral philosophy.

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