Criar um Site Grátis Fantástico

Being Good : A Short Introduction to Ethics pdf

Being Good : A Short Introduction to Ethics pdf

Being Good : A Short Introduction to Ethics. Professor of Philosophy Simon Blackburn

Being Good : A Short Introduction to Ethics
---------------------------------------------------------------
Author: Professor of Philosophy Simon Blackburn
Number of Pages: 172 pages
Published Date: 17 Apr 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Country: Oxford, United Kingdom
Language: English
Type: PDF
ISBN: 9780192853776
Download Link: being good a short introduction to ethics
---------------------------------------------------------------


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 quicksands that often engulf us. Then, turning to problems of life and death, he shows how we should think about the meaning of life, and how we should mistrust the sound-bite sized absolutes that often dominate moral debates. Finally he offers a critical tour of the ways the philosophical tradition has tried to provide foundations for ethics, from Plato and Aristotle through to contemporary debates.

Read online Being Good : A Short Introduction to Ethics Buy Being Good : A Short Introduction to Ethics Download Being Good : A Short Introduction to Ethics for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Being Good : A Short Introduction to Ethics ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent