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Why be Moral? (Paperback)
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Why be Moral? (Paperback)
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Noted philosopher Kai Nielsen offers an answer to this fundamental
question - a question that reaches in to grasp at the very heart of
ethics itself. Essentially, this innocent inquiry masks a confusion
that so many of us get caught in as we think about moral issues. We
fail to realise that there is a difference between judging human
behaviour within an ethical context, or set of moral principles,
and justifying the principles themselves. According to Nielsen, it
is precisely this basic muddle that has spawned all sorts of
challenges to morality, from relativism and institutionism to
egoism and scepticism.Nielsen first argues the case for these
challenges in the strongest possible terms; then he shows that
their failure to establish themselves demonstrates a fundamental
flaw - an inability to understand what it means to have good
reasons for the moral claims we make. In his search for "good
reasons" Nielsen must face the innocent question "Why be moral?" He
tries to show us that skirmishes among supporters of specific moral
principles require a different sort of resolution than those that
occur between groups of ethical principles. Justifying an action
within a moral point of view is quite different from making the
case for having a moral point of view in the first place.
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