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The myth of morality /
"In The Myth of Morality, Richard Joyce argues 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. Joyce argues that natural selection is to bla...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In The Myth of Morality, Richard Joyce argues 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. Joyce argues 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. Should we therefore do away with morality, as we did away with other faulty notions such as witches? Possibly not. We may be able to carry on with morality as a useful fiction - allowing it to have a regulative influence on our lives and decisions, perhaps even playing a central role - while not committing ourselves to believing or asserting falsehoods, and thus not being subject to accusations of error."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 249 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511016557 9780511016554 051102925X 9780511029257 9780511487101 051148710X 1107124646 9781107124646 0521036259 9780521036252 0511044542 9780511044540 0511328788 9780511328787 1280421398 9781280421396 0511155433 9780511155437 |