Why be moral? /
edited by Beatrix Himmelmann and Robert B. Louden.
- 1 electronic resource (viii, 278 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction / Why Be Moral -- A Pseudo-Problem? / Why Be Moral: A Meaningful Question? / Why Be Moral? A New Answer to an Old Question / Aristotle on Virtuous Questioning of Morality / The Egoistic Answer / Why Be Moral? An Argument from the Human Condition in Response to Hobbes and Nietzsche / Morality, Self-Constitution, and the Limits of Integrity / What is Kant's Precise Answer to the Question 'Why Be Moral'? / The "Why Be Moral?" Question and the Meaning of Life / Why Be Moral? A Kierkegaardian Approach / Acknowledging the Moral Law / "Why Be Moral?" Pragmatism's Attempt to Dismiss the Issue / Is the Overridingness of Moral Reasons a Semantic Fact? / Williams on Integrity, Ground Projects and Reasons to Be Moral / Contributors -- Index. Himmelmann, Beatrix -- Birnbacher, Dieter -- Schaber, Peter -- Louden, Robert B. -- Fossheim, Hallvard J. -- Russ�y Labukt, Ivar -- Himmelmann, Beatrix -- Sussman, David -- Horn, Christoph -- Landau, Iddo -- Fremstedal, Roe -- Eldridge, Richard -- Lundestad, Erik -- Wittwer, H�ector -- Thomas, Alan --
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What reasons do we have to be moral, and are these reasons more compelling than the reasons we have to pursue non-moral projects? Ever since the Sophists first raised this question, it has been a focal point of debate. Why be Moral? is a collection of new essays on this fundamental philosophical problem, written by an international team of leading scholars in the field.