Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It

Biddle, Craig

ISBN 10: 0971373701 / ISBN 13: 9780971373709

Published by Glen Allen Pr Llc, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It
• Publisher: Glen Allen Pr Llc
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0971373701
• ISBN 13: 9780971373709
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 7 ounces

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Synopsis

Loving Life demonstrates that morality is a matter not of divine revelation or social convention or personal opinion -- but, rather, of the factual requirements of human life and happiness. Biddle shows how a true morality is derived logically from observable facts, what in essence such a morality demands, and why it is a matter of pure self-interest.

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If you want to live your life to the fullest, if you want to achieve the greatest happiness possible, this book is for you. It is about the essential means to that end: a proper code of values--a proper morality.

Contrary to popular myth, morality does not come from God; it is not a matter of divine revelation. Nor is it a matter of social convention or personal opinion. Being moral does not consist in obeying commandments, or in doing whatever is culturally accepted, or in doing whatever one wants to do. The rabbis, the priests, the relativists, and the subjectivists are wrong. Morality is not a matter of faith or conformity or feelings.

True morality is a matter of the factual requirements of human life and happiness. It is a matter of reason, logic, and the law of cause and effect. As such, it is an indispensable guide to living well and loving life. This is demonstrated in the pages ahead.