Being Good A Short Introduction to Ethics

Name: Being Good A Short Introduction to Ethics
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ISBN: 9780192853776

ISBN-10: 0192853775

ISBN-13: 9780192853776

Edition: 2nd 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Simon Blackburn

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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 self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures, he charts a course through the philosophical…

Book details

List price: $15.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 4.72" wide x 6.73" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



Illustrations


Introduction



Seven Threats to Ethics



The 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



The 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



The Categorical Imperative



Contracts and Discourse



The Common Point of View



Confidence Restored



The United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights


Notes and Further Reading


Picture Credits


Bibliography


Index