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Can't We Make Moral Judgements?

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  1. Mary Midgley
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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-1
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  2. Can We Base Freedom on Ignorance?

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    Pages 3-11

  3. Starting from Where We Are

    • Mary Midgley
    Pages 13-18

  4. Why There Is Trouble Over Knowledge

    • Mary Midgley
    Pages 19-28

  5. Scepticism and Liberty

    • Mary Midgley
    Pages 29-33

  6. Why Must We Not Interfere?

    • Mary Midgley
    Pages 35-40

  7. The Fear of Society

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    Pages 41-45

  8. The Public Side of Morality

    • Mary Midgley
    Pages 47-51

  9. Individuals in the Modern Melting-Pot

    • Mary Midgley
    Pages 53-62

  10. Individualism, Solitude and Privacy

    • Mary Midgley
    Pages 63-68

  11. Morality and Harm

    • Mary Midgley
    Pages 69-76

  12. Rethinking Relativism

    • Mary Midgley
    Pages 77-86

  13. How Large Is a Culture?

    • Mary Midgley
    Pages 87-96

  14. Varieties of Subjectivism

    • Mary Midgley
    Pages 97-110

  15. The Problem of Private Validity

    • Mary Midgley
    Pages 111-117

  16. Social Darwinist Egoism

    • Mary Midgley
    Pages 119-127

  17. Moving Forward Through the Modern World

    • Mary Midgley
    Pages 129-132

  18. Doubts, Reasonable and Otherwise

    • Mary Midgley
    Pages 133-142

  19. What About Values?

    • Mary Midgley
    Pages 143-151

  20. Back to the Main Question

    • Mary Midgley
    Pages 153-162
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About this book

In this book, Mary Midgely turns a spotlight on the fashionable view that we no longer need or use moral judgements. She shows how the question of whether or not we can make moral judgements must inevitably affect our attitudes to the law and its institutions, but also to events that occur in our daily lives.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Can't We Make Moral Judgements?

  • Authors: Mary Midgley

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09446-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-312-08726-5Published: 15 January 1993

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-09446-9Published: 30 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 177

  • Topics: Moral Philosophy

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