Moral Reasons

by Jonathan Dancy

This book attempts to place a realist view of ethics (the claim that there are facts of the matter in ethics as elsewhere) within a broader context. It starts with a discussion of why we should mind about the difference between right and wrong, asks what account we should give of our ability to learn from our moral experience, and looks in some detail at the different sorts of ways in which moral reasons can combine to show us what we should do in the circumstances. The second half of the book uses these results to mount an attack on consequentialism in ethics, arguing that there are more sorts of reasons around than consequentialists can even dream of.

Genres: Philosophy

274 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Bay Long · Rating 5 out of 5]

So Dancy’s Moral Reasons is the second most exciting book in philosophy I've read in the last few years (the first being Parfit's Reasons and Persons). So good!