Ethics, Simon Blackburn
Ethics, Simon Blackburn
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Ethics
A Very Short Introduction (2nd Edition)

Author: Simon Blackburn

Narrator: Michael Butler Murray

Unabridged: 3 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/27/2021


Synopsis

Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by skepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism, and by the fear that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic, or competitive and aggressive. Here, Simon Blackburn tackles the major moral questions surrounding birth, death, happiness, desire, and freedom, showing us how we should think about the meaning of life, and why we should mistrust the soundbite-sized absolutes that often dominate moral debates.

This second edition of the Very Short Introduction on Ethics has revised and updated aspects of the original to reflect changing times and mores. It highlights the importance of an understanding of approaches to ethics and its foundations, confronted as we are with a fluid and uncertain world of eroding trust, swirling conspiracy theories, and a dismaying loss of respect in public discourse.

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Reviews

Goodreads review by Riku

Slowly working my way through the Very Short Introduction series. This has been the worst of the lot till now - in fact the series had been pretty good until this one. Blackburn seems to be unaware that the standards had been set a tad higher in this series and chooses to ramble on about just societ......more

Goodreads review by Brandon

3.25/5 - Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics is good, but only for a beginner in this sphere. Even then, it has serious flaws. The depth is lacking, the focus is uneven, but it gave me enough great information to be a worth the time. Simon Blackburn's other book, Think, was so good that I thou......more

Goodreads review by Teun

Great content, poor structure......more