Add to ORKGWhat 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
When we evaluate actions from the moral point of view, we can do this in two very different ways. We...
According to social contract theories of morality, right and wrong are nothing more than the agreem...
This is the text of The Lindley Lecture for 1972, given by Alan Gewirth (1912-2004), an American phi...
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...
Can we ever be fully practically justified in acting contrary to moral demands? My contention is tha...
The question "Why should I be moral?," taken as a request for reasons to be moral, strikes many phil...
The aim of this paper is to see what kind of implications would an objectivist or a non-objectivist ...
My primary aim in this essay is to clarify the notion of a moral reason. To accomplish this, I criti...
It is often assumed that the best explanation of why we should be moral must involve a substantive a...
What is virtue? How can we lead moral lives? Exploring how contemporary moral ph...
Philosophers and laymen alike have often used morality to invite misconceptions of human life into e...
Morality is a source of reasons for action, what philosophers call practical reasons. Kantians say t...
When we evaluate actions from the moral point of view, we can do this in two very different ways. We...
According to social contract theories of morality, right and wrong are nothing more than the agreem...
This is the text of The Lindley Lecture for 1972, given by Alan Gewirth (1912-2004), an American phi...
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...
Can we ever be fully practically justified in acting contrary to moral demands? My contention is tha...
The question "Why should I be moral?," taken as a request for reasons to be moral, strikes many phil...
The aim of this paper is to see what kind of implications would an objectivist or a non-objectivist ...
My primary aim in this essay is to clarify the notion of a moral reason. To accomplish this, I criti...
It is often assumed that the best explanation of why we should be moral must involve a substantive a...
What is virtue? How can we lead moral lives? Exploring how contemporary moral ph...
Philosophers and laymen alike have often used morality to invite misconceptions of human life into e...
Morality is a source of reasons for action, what philosophers call practical reasons. Kantians say t...
When we evaluate actions from the moral point of view, we can do this in two very different ways. We...
According to social contract theories of morality, right and wrong are nothing more than the agreem...
This is the text of The Lindley Lecture for 1972, given by Alan Gewirth (1912-2004), an American phi...