TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas,Alan
AU  - Himmelmann,Beatrix
AU  - Horn,Christoph
AU  - Sussman,David
AU  - Birnbacher,Dieter
AU  - Lundestad,Erik
AU  - Fossheim,Hallvard J.
AU  - Himmelmann,Beatrix
AU  - Wittwer,Héctor
AU  - Landau,Iddo
AU  - Russøy Labukt,Ivar
AU  - Louden,Robert
AU  - Schaber,Peter
AU  - Eldridge,Richard
AU  - Louden,Robert B.
AU  - Fremstedal,Roe
TI  - Why Be Moral?
SN  - 9783110366396
AV  - BJ 
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Philosophy (General)
KW  - Morality
KW  - Reason
KW  - Skepticism
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - reason
KW  - skepticism
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Table of Contents --; Introduction --; Part I: Investigating the Question --; Why Be Moral - A Pseudo-Problem? --; Why Be Moral: A Meaningful Question? --; Part II: Exploring Viable Answers --; Why Be Moral? A New Answer to an Old Question --; Aristotle on Virtuous Questioning of Morality --; The Egoistic Answer --; Why Be Moral? An Argument from the Human Condition in Response to Hobbes and Nietzsche --; Morality, Self-Constitution, and the Limits of Integrity --; What is Kant's Precise Answer to the Question 'Why Be Moral'? --; The "Why Be Moral?" Question and the Meaning of Life --; Why Be Moral? A Kierkegaardian Approach --; Acknowledging the Moral Law --; "Why Be Moral?" Pragmatism's Attempt to Dismiss the Issue --; Is the Overridingness of Moral Reasons a Semantic Fact? --; Williams on Integrity, Ground Projects and Reasons to Be Moral --; Contributors --; Index
N2  - What reasons do we have to be moral, and are these reasons more compelling than the reasons we have to pursue non-moral projects? Ever since the Sophists first raised this question, it has been a focal point of debate. Why be Moral? is a collection of new essays on this fundamental philosophical problem, written by an international team of leading scholars in the field
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