Moral animals [electronic resource] : ideals and constraints in moral theory / Catherine Wilson

Author: Wilson, Catherine, 1951-
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 2004.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 316 pages)

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Summary

'Moral Animals' offers a brand new approach to moral theory. Drawing on anthropology, sociology and evolutionary theory, as well as philosophy of language and philosophy of science Catherine Wilson shows how to understand and reconcile our moral aspirations for a just world with the constraints human nature places on us.

Subject(s)

Ethics
Human beings—Philosophy

ISBN

9780191601859 (ebook)
0191601853 (ebook)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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