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Being Good
Simon Blackburn
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Description for Being Good
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
172
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
140g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780192853776
SKU
V9780192853776
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About Simon Blackburn
Simon Blackburn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Until recently he was Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, and from 1969 to 1990 a Fellow and Tutor at Pembroke College, Oxford. His books include Spreading the Word (1984), Essays in Quasi-Realism (1993), The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (1994), Ruling Passions ... Read more
Reviews for Being Good
Review from previous edition 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, March 25 2001
full of good sense
Sunday Times 21/04/2002
But for anyone ... Read more
Ben Rogers, Sunday Telegraph, March 25 2001
full of good sense
Sunday Times 21/04/2002
But for anyone ... Read more