So-called evolutionary error theorists, such as Michael Ruse and Richard Joyce, have argued that naturalistic accounts of the moral sentiments lead us to adopt an ...

Kant’s final work in moral philosophy, Die Metaphysik der Sitten, currently occupies the centre of scholarly attention. One of the reasons for this is the lack of consensus over how to understand the ...

Ancient Greek philosophy was divided into three sciences: physics, ethics, and logic. This division is perfectly suitable to the nature of the thing; and the only improvement that can be made in it is ...

Ancient Greek philosophy was divided into three sciences: physics, ethics, and logic. This division is perfectly suitable to the nature of the thing; and the only improvement that can be made in it is ...

Alasdair MacIntyre, from a 1993 review of Iris Murdoch’s philosophical study Metaphysics As A Guide To Morals: This book is a salutary and needed reminder of the intellectual and moral power of the ...

This is the third in a series of posts adapted from chapter 4 of my book, The Decline of the Individual: Reconciling Autonomy with Community. In the last post, we discussed how our tastes, preferences ...