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Ethics, Evil and Fiction
Ethics, Evil and Fiction
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Ethics, Evil and Fiction

by Colin McGinn
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Clarendon Press (1999-06-17)
ISBN: 0198238770
EAN: 9780198238775
Dewy Decimal #: 133
Paperback: 200 pages
Edition: New edition
SKU: B345-1013
Condition: New
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A philosophical analysis of the concept of goodness
Rating (3)
Date: 2001-08-30
6 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful

The first chapters of this book are difficult for the non-philosophically trained but contain a discussion of goodness which is important for those wanting to comment on ethics. The first review of this book (above) makes the sort of mistake which McGinn exposes over and over: to say that ethics exists in a social context is saying nothing more than "science exists in a social context". Neither of these statements undermines a realist construal of the semantics of ethical propositions (or scientific propositions) or their objectivity: they just remind us that disagreement is common and that solutions are extraordinarily difficult. McGinn offers critiques of many analyses of goodness - the common theme being that something is always left out by the analysis which is found in our ordinary concept of goodness. Definitely worth reading if you want to get an introduction to contemporary metaethics/ethics.
Moral Realism: yikes.
Rating (2)
Date: 1999-06-18
1 out of 11 customers found this reveiw helpful

If there's one thing I learned from studying literature, it's that ethics are comprised by social context; and the context in a novel is largely CONTRIVED by its author. In an age of postmodern criticism then, it is shocking to find this sort of flat, naive, victorian interpretation. Moral realism. Yikes.
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