Being Good : A Short Introduction to Ethics
ISBN: 9780192853776 | 0192853775
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 4/17/2003
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Writing with wit and elegance, Simon Blackburn tackles the basic questions of ethics in this lively book, highlighting the complications and troubling issues that spring from the very simple question of how we ought to live. Blackburn dissects the many common reasons for why we are skeptical about ethics. Drawing on examples from history, politics, religion and everyday personal experience, he shows how cynicism and self-consciousness can paralyze us into considering ethics a hopeless pursuit. He assures us that ethics is neither futile nor irr... MORE
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| Appendix. The United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 136 | (9) | |||
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| Bibliography | 155 | (6) | |||
| Index | 161 |
Simon Blackburn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Until recently he was Edna J. Doury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, and from 1969 to 1999 was a Fellow and Tutor at Pembroke College, Oxford. He is the author of The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (1994) and the best-selling Think (OUP, 1999), among other books.
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