Whatever happened to good and evil? / Russ Shafer-Landau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shafer-Landau, Russ.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Good and evil.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

x, 150 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

This brief and engaging introduction to meta-ethics focuses on the issues at the foundation of morality, posing such questions as: How can we know what is right and wrong? Does ethical objectivity require God? Why should I be moral? Where do moral standards come from? Do cultural diversity and persistent moral disagreement support moral skepticism? Shafer-Landau defends the idea that ethical standards are objective--true independently of what anyone thinks of them. Writing in a clear and lively style and employing many examples, he identifies the many weaknesses in contemporary moral skepticism and devotes considerable attention to presenting, and critiquing, the most difficult objections to his view.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0195168739

OCLC:

51969115