The birth of ethics : reconstructing the role and nature of morality

The birth of ethics : reconstructing the role and nature of morality / Philip Pettit ; edited by Kinch Hoekstra.

To know the nature of any phenomenon or practice, it is often a good idea to learn about how it might have emerged or might have been constructed. The Birth of Ethics offers an account of how morality might have emerged, without any planning, in a society with language but without any properly ethic...

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Main Author: Pettit, Philip, 1945- (Author)
Other Authors: Hoekstra, Kinch (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Series:Berkeley Tanner lectures.
Subjects:
Ethics > History.
08.38 ethics.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
Ethics
Ethik
History
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary:To know the nature of any phenomenon or practice, it is often a good idea to learn about how it might have emerged or might have been constructed. The Birth of Ethics offers an account of how morality might have emerged, without any planning, in a society with language but without any properly ethical concepts or practices. The conjectural history that it documents serves a philosophical purpose, for it directs us the role that morality plays in human life and the nature of morality that enables it to play that role.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190904920
0190904925
9780190904937
0190904933
9780190904944
0190904941
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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