Blackburn, Simon
Ruling Passions: A Theory of Practical Reasoning
- ISBN 13:
- 9780199241392
- author:
- Blackburn, Simon
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Oxford University Press, USA
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2000
- Pages:
- 344
- Genre:
- Ethics & moral philosophy
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Simon Blackburn's Ruling Passions offers a compelling philosophy of human motivation and morality. He argues that ethics cannot be understood until we grasp human nature, and sets out to explore the role of guilt, shame, disgust, and other moral emotions in shaping our values. Blackburn draws on game theory and cognitive science to develop his account of human motivation, seeking to integrate our understanding of morality with the rest of our knowledge of the world. His naturalistic ethics avoids reducing ethics to non-ethical concerns, instead providing a solution to the puzzle of how ethics can maintain its authority in the face of conflicting emotions and motivations. By examining the relationship between ethics and human nature, Blackburn provides a nuanced and thought-provoking exploration of the foundations of morality.
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