• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Compassionate moral realism
  • Contributor: Marshall, Colin [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018
  • Issue: First edition
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 265 pages)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198809685.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780191846953
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  • Keywords: Metaethik > Moralischer Realismus > Mitgefühl
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
    This edition previously issued in print: 2018
    Zielgruppe - Audience: Specialized
  • Description: Colin Marshall offers a ground-up defense of objective morality, in which the central role is played by compassion. Only compassion, Marshall argues, lets us be in touch with others' motivational mental properties. 'Compassionate Moral Realism' offers a new answer to the question 'Why be moral?', a central philosophical concern since Plato