About this title: Simon Blackburn puts forward a compelling original philosophy of human motivation and morality. He maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. So these are the sorts of questions he addresses: Why do we behave as we do? Can we improve? Is our ethics at war with our passions, or is it an upshot of those passions? Blackburn seeks the answers in an exploration of guilt, shame, disgust, and other moral emotions; he draws also on game theory and cognitive science in his account of the structures of human motivation. Many philosophers have wanted a ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780199241392ISBN:0199241392
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Publisher: Clarendon Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780199241392ISBN:0199241392
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780199241392ISBN:0199241392
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 344 pages. (344 pages) the author posits a philosophy of human motivation and morality in which he maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. he seeks the answers in an exploration of guilt, shame and other moral emotions, and draws on game theory and cognitive science bibliography, index edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press(UK)
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780199241392ISBN:0199241392
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