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The Nature of Moral Thinking (Hardcover, New)
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The Nature of Moral Thinking (Hardcover, New)
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Most recent texts in moral philosophy have either concentrated on
practical moral issues or else, if theoretical, have tended toward
one-sided presentations of recent, fashionable views. Discussions
of applied ethics are certain to be circumscibed unless underlying
philosophical assumptions about deeper, more general issues are
treated. Similarly, recent approaches to ethics are difficult to
understand without a knowledge of the context of the historical
views against which these approaches are reacting. "The Nature of
Moral Thinking" provides a discussion of the classical
philosophical questions about our moral thinking, surveying the
main types of meta-ethical and normative ethical theories, while
not excluding the more recent discussions of moral realism, of
anti-realism and of virtue morality. Francis Snare demonstrates
that glib, intellectualistic thinking about morality, especially in
regard to relativism and subjectivism, is seriously flawed. Serious
attention is given to the question of whether particular theories
of the origins of morality (for example, Nietzsche's and Marx')
undermine morality. This book should be of interest to students and
lecturers of general philosoph
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