The Birth of Ethics

by Philip Pettit

Book Overview

Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to communicate with one another, but did not have any properly moral concepts in which to exhort one another to meet certain standards and to lodge related claims and complaints. According to The Birth of Ethics, the members of that society would have faced a set of pressures, and made a series of adjustments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197567444
• ISBN13: 9780197567449
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.2"