This book combines the details of the lived moral life – the context in which many of our most pressing moral questions arise – with theoretical rigor in offering an account of the nature of reasons, how we come to have moral knowledge, and how we can adjudicate between competing positions.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2010-11-05
Language: English
Number of Pages: 190
Edition: 1
Volume: 13
Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
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