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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2023
      June 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009106900
      9781009107716
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009106900
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      Dimensions:
      (198 x 129 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.457kg, 430 Pages
      • Series:
      Talking Philosophy
      Subjects:
      Philosophy: General Interest, Ethics, Philosophy
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    Series:
    Talking Philosophy
    Subjects:
    Philosophy: General Interest, Ethics, Philosophy
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    Ethical questions are often associated with practical dilemmas: questions in morality, in other words. This volume, by contrast, asks questions about morality: what it is, and to what it owes its precarious authority over us. The focus on metaethics is sustained throughout, via a wide range of philosophical perspectives. Distinguished luminaries who include R. M. Hare and Bernard Williams address keenly debated issues such as what constitutes morality in politics; the relationship between education and ethical standards; and whether or not morality can indeed be defined at all. As Nikhil Krishnan writes in his elegant Foreword, 'The plain-speaking, essayistic grace of these essays, speaks nevertheless of the possibility of moral philosophy, written with an eye to a listener, very possibly not a professional philosopher, who has the right to say, ''This is all very well, your neat little theory, but it doesn't ring true. Things are more complicated than that.'''

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