Good and Evil An Absolute Conception

Name: Good and Evil An Absolute Conception
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ISBN: 9780333555415

ISBN-10: 0333555414

ISBN-13: 9780333555415

Edition: 1991

Authors: Raimond Gaita

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Raimond Gaita's Good and Evil is one of the most important, original and provocative books on the nature of morality to have been published in recent years. It is essential reading for anyone interested in what it means to talk about good and evil. Gaita argues that questions about morality are inseparable from the preciousness of each human being, an issue we can only address if we place the idea of remorse at the centre of moral life. Drawing on an astonishing range of thinkers and writers, including Plato, Wittgenstein, George Orwell and Primo Levi, Gaita also reflects on the place of reason and truth in morality and ultimately how questions about good and evil are connected to the…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Limited
Publication date: 2/28/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 340
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.66" long
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Preface to the First Edition


Preface to the Second Edition


Acknowledgements for the First Edition



Evil and Unconditional Respect



The Scope of Academic Moral Philosophy



Mortal Men and Rational Beings



Remorse and Its Lessons



Evil Done and Evil Suffered



Naturalism



Modalities



Meaning



Individuality



'An Attitude Towards a Soul'



Goodness



Ethical Other-Worldliness



'the Repudiation of Morality'



Ethics and Politics



Moral Understanding



Truth



Fearless Thinkers and Evil Thoughts


Afterword


Notes


Index