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Author Superson, Anita M.

Title The moral skeptic / Anita M. Superson
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 250 pages)
Series Studies in feminist philosophy
Studies in feminist philosophy.
Contents Introduction -- The self-interest-based contractarian response to the skeptic -- A feminist ethics response to the skeptic -- Deformed desires -- Self-interest versus morality -- The amoralist -- The motive skeptic -- The interdependency thesis
Summary Anita Superson challenges the traditional picture of the skeptic who asks, 'Why be moral?'. While holding that the skeptic's position is important, she builds an argument against it by understanding it more deeply, and then shows what it would take to successfully defeat it
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Ethics.
Skepticism.
Ethics
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Ethics
Skepticism
Form Electronic book
Author Oxford University Press
LC no. 2008022620
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