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Being Good
A Short Introduction to Ethics
2002 || Paperback || Simon Blackburn || Oxford University Press
It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, or sticking to duty, or insisting on our rights, we can be confused, or be paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless. Many are afraid that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic, or competitive and aggressive.
Simon Blackburn, author of thebest-selling Think, structures th...
Ethics: A Very Short Introduction / 2nd edition
2021 || Paperback || Simon Blackburn || Oxford University Press
Simon Blackburn tackles the major moral questions surrounding birth, death, happiness, desire, and freedom, and considers how we should think about the meaning of life. This new edition highlights the importance of an understanding of approaches to ethics and its foundations, and how this relates to our modern world of eroding trust.