Ethical Project

Name: Ethical Project
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ISBN: 9780674284289

ISBN-10: 0674284283

ISBN-13: 9780674284289

Edition: 2014

Authors: Philip Kitcher

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Principles of right and wrong guide the lives of almost all human beings, but we often see them as external to ourselves, outside our own control. In a revolutionary approach to the problems of moral philosophy, Philip Kitcher makes a provocative proposal: Instead of conceiving ethical commands as divine revelations or as the discoveries of brilliant thinkers, we should see our ethical practices as evolving over tens of thousands of years, as members of our species have worked out how to live together and prosper. Elaborating this radical new vision, Kitcher shows how the limited altruistic tendencies of our ancestors enabled a fragile social life, how our forebears learned to regulate…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.21" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Philip Kitcher is John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University.