The Myth of Morality
Richard Joyce
ISBN: | 9780511029257 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) |
Published: | 28 January, 2005 |
Format: | Digital |
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The Myth of Morality
Richard Joyce
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. Should we therefore do away with morality, as we did away with oth
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