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- 1984 (4933)
- By George Orwell
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- After Virtue (20)
- A Study in Moral Theory
- By Alasdair MacIntyre
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- Analysis of Mind, The (13)
- By Bertrand Russell
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- Animal Farm (4860)
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- The Art of the Novel (54)
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- Aspects of Scientific Explanation (1)
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- Basic Writings of Nietzsche (42)
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- Being Good (13)
- A Short Introduction to Ethics
- By Simon Blackburn
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- The Bounds of Sense (6)
- An Essay on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
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- The Catcher in the Rye (3321)
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- The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays (6)
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- Common Morality (3)
- Deciding What to Do
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- Communication and the Evolution of Society (2)
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Being Good
It is better to say that Being Good is a short introduction to Blackburn's moral philosophy rather than moral philosophy in general. The peculiarity of this book is that unlike other introductory works, Blackburn does not introduce different moral theories one by one, but begins by stating several t ... (continue)
It is better to say that Being Good is a short introduction to Blackburn's moral philosophy rather than moral philosophy in general. The peculiarity of this book is that unlike other introductory works, Blackburn does not introduce different moral theories one by one, but begins by stating several threats which are prevailing at our time, making rational discussion of moral issues endlessly contentious and even interminable. Throughout the pages Prof. Blackburn attempts to defend a particular version of common sense morality in the light of the said ethical environment, in the way refutes any traditional principled morality. Such claim subtly embodies a non-cognitivist view of the nature of morality and which has been well developed in his previous works Essays in Quasi-Realism, and Ruling Passions.
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