Birth of Ethics | Reconstructing the Role and Nature of Morality

Philip Pettit

ISBN 10: 0190904917 / ISBN 13: 9780190904913

Published by OXFORD UNIV PR, 2019

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Birth of Ethics | Reconstructing the Role and Nature of Morality | Philip Pettit | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2019 | OXFORD UNIV PR | EAN 9780190904913 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Birth of Ethics | Reconstructing the Role and Nature of Morality
• Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190904917
• ISBN 13: 9780190904913
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 222W x 145H x 25D millimeters 222 millimeters width by 145 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 628 grams
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Philip Pettit is Laurence Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University. He is also Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University.

Kinch Hoekstra is Chancellor's Professor of Political Science and Law at University of California, Berkeley.