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In The Myth of Morality, Richard Joyce argues that moral discourse is hopelessly flawed. At the heart of ordinary moral judgments is a notion of moral inescapability, or practical authority, which, upon investigation, cannot be reasonably defended. Joyce argues that natural selection is to blame, in that it has provided us with a tendency to invest the world with values that it does not contain, and demands that it does not make. His original and innovative book will appeal to all readers intere
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Joyce, Richard.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780511029257
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Social, Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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