Moral Philosophy

by Anthony O'Hear

What is moral philosophy? That is the question with which this important volume grapples. Its starting point is the famous critique made in 1958 by Elizabeth Anscombe, who argued that moral philosophy begins from a mistake: that it is fundamentally wrong about the sort of concept that the word 'moral' represents. Anscombe rejected moral philosophy as it was then (and mostly now still is) practised. She offered instead a blueprint for the task moral...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009111396
• ISBN13: 9781009111393
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 7.8"