Ethics by David Wiggins

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Almost everyone has wondered at some time or another why morality requires what it appears to require and how, if at all, it speaks to us. This book surveys the answers commonly proposed for such questions - gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century.

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Ethics by David Wiggins

Almost everyone has wondered at some time or another why morality requires what it appears to require and how, if at all, it speaks to us. This book surveys the answers commonly proposed for such questions - gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century.
David Wiggins is one of the most distinguished moral philosophers living today. He has lectured at every major academic institutution in the world and has been President of the Aristotelian Society, is a Member of the Institut International de Philosophe and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of Needs Values Truth and Sameness and Substance Renewed.
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ISBN 13 9780140252880
ISBN 10 0140252886
Title Ethics
Author David Wiggins
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 2006-05-25
Number of pages 416
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