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Moral Animals

Paperback • 2007 • English

Moral Animals

By Catherine Wilson

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In Moral Animals Catherine Wilson develops a theory of morality based on two fundamental premises: first that moral progress implies the evolution of moral ideals involving restraint and sacrifice; second that human beings are outfitted by nature with selfish motivations, intentions, and ambitions that place constraints on what morality can demand of them. Normative claims, she goes on to show, can be understood as projective hypotheses concerning the conduct of realistically-described nonideal ...Show more

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9780199228096

Publisher

Clarendon Press

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

Moral Animals

Format

Paperback

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