What reasons do we have to be moral, and are these reasons more compelling than the reasons we have to pursue non-moral projects? Ever since the Sophists first raised this question, it has been a focal point of debate. Why be Moral? is a collection of new essays on this fundamental philosophical problem, written by an international team of leading scholars in the field.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1228/thumbnail.jp
The question "Why should I be moral?," taken as a request for reasons to be moral, strikes many phil...
Virtues and reasons are two of the most fruitful and important concepts in contemporary moral philos...
Professional philosophers are members of bioethical committees and regulatory bodies in areas of int...
What reasons do we have to be moral, and are these reasons more compelling than the reasons we have ...
This question has developed, post Hobbes, in two directions. In one understanding, morality is reas...
Deposited with permission of the author. © 1969 Prof. Peter Singer“The question has, as I have alrea...
Appropriately specified, the question, 'why be moral?', addresses important and legitimate topics of...
My primary aim in this essay is to clarify the notion of a moral reason. To accomplish this, I criti...
The aim of this paper is to see what kind of implications would an objectivist or a non-objectivist ...
According to social contract theories of morality, right and wrong are nothing more than the agreem...
In philosophical discourse, one way of considering the question of why we should be moral has been t...
Morality is a source of reasons for action, what philosophers call practical reasons. Kantians say t...
It is often assumed that the best explanation of why we should be moral must involve a substantive a...
This dissertation is about the nature and variety of practical reasons. A practical reason is a fact...
How much can morality demand of well-off Westerners as a response to the plight of the poor and star...
The question "Why should I be moral?," taken as a request for reasons to be moral, strikes many phil...
Virtues and reasons are two of the most fruitful and important concepts in contemporary moral philos...
Professional philosophers are members of bioethical committees and regulatory bodies in areas of int...
What reasons do we have to be moral, and are these reasons more compelling than the reasons we have ...
This question has developed, post Hobbes, in two directions. In one understanding, morality is reas...
Deposited with permission of the author. © 1969 Prof. Peter Singer“The question has, as I have alrea...
Appropriately specified, the question, 'why be moral?', addresses important and legitimate topics of...
My primary aim in this essay is to clarify the notion of a moral reason. To accomplish this, I criti...
The aim of this paper is to see what kind of implications would an objectivist or a non-objectivist ...
According to social contract theories of morality, right and wrong are nothing more than the agreem...
In philosophical discourse, one way of considering the question of why we should be moral has been t...
Morality is a source of reasons for action, what philosophers call practical reasons. Kantians say t...
It is often assumed that the best explanation of why we should be moral must involve a substantive a...
This dissertation is about the nature and variety of practical reasons. A practical reason is a fact...
How much can morality demand of well-off Westerners as a response to the plight of the poor and star...
The question "Why should I be moral?," taken as a request for reasons to be moral, strikes many phil...
Virtues and reasons are two of the most fruitful and important concepts in contemporary moral philos...
Professional philosophers are members of bioethical committees and regulatory bodies in areas of int...