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<p>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. <p>in <i>ethics&#58; Twelve Lectures On The Philosophy Of Morality,</i> David Wiggins Surveys The Answers Most Commonly Proposed For Such Questions-gathering Insights From Hume, Kant, The Utilitarians And The Post-utilitaritarian Thinkers Of The Twentieth Century.<p>the View Of Morality He Then Proposes Draws Not Only On Hume But On Other Sources As Diverse As Aristotle, Simone Weil, And Present Day Thinkers Such As Philippa Foot. As Need Arises, He Pursues A Variety Of Related Issues And Engages Additional Thinkers-plato And Bernard Williams On Egoism, Altruism And Benevolence, Schopenhauer And Kolnai On Evil, Leibniz And Rawls On Impartiality, And Montaigne And Mackie On 'moral Relativism' Among Others. <p>after Pointing To The Special Role Within Morality Of The Sentiments Of Solidarity And Reciprocity That Human Beings Find Within Themselves, And The Part That These And Cognate Sentiments Play In Sustaining Our Ordinary Ideas Of Agency And Responsibility, Wiggins Turns To The Political Sphere And Looks For A Neo-aristotelian Conception Of

Author

David Wiggins, David Wiggins

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674022140

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities