Moral Vision: An Introduction to Ethics

by David McNaughton

Book Overview

This book introduces the reader to ethics by examining a current and important debate. During the last fifty years the orthodox position in ethics has been a broadly non-cognitivist one: since there are no moral facts, moral remarks are best understood, not as attempting to describe the world, but as having some other function - such as expressing the attitudes or preferences of the speaker. In recent years this position has been increasingly challenged...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631159452
• ISBN13: 9780631159452
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"