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Why should we avoid doing moral wrong? The inability of philosophy to answer this question in a compelling manneralong with the moral skepticism and ethical confusion that ensueresult, Stephen Darwall argues, from our failure to appreciate the essentially
In this magisterial study, one of our leading moral philosophers refutes the charge (originally made by Elizabeth Anscombe) that modern ethics is incoherent because it essentially depends on theological and religious assumptions that it cannot acknowledge
Stephen Darwall is a moral philosopher who has played a central role in contemporary debates around the foundation of ethics. This book is a sequel to his earlier volume Modern Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to Kant, and like its predecessor it explores t