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Moral Animals : Ideals and Constraints in Moral Theory by Wilson, Catherine is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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In Moral Animals Catherine Wilson develops a theory of morality based on two fundamental premises: first that moral progress implies the evolution of moral ideals involving restraint and sacrifice; second that human beings are outfitted by nature with selfish motivations, intentions, and ambitions that place constraints on what morality can demand of them. Normative claims, she goes on to show, can be understood as projective hypotheses concerning the conduct of realistically-described nonideal
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- Author
- Wilson, Catherine
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressOxford
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199267675
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Science, Biology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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