John Rist surveys the history of ethics from Plato to the present and offers a vigorous defence of an ethical theory based on a revised version of Platonic realism. In a wide-ranging discussion he examines well-known alternatives to Platonism, in particular Epicurus, Hobbes, Hume and Kant as well as contemporary 'practical reasoners', and argues that most post-Enlightenment the...(展开全部)

John Rist surveys the history of ethics from Plato to the present and offers a vigorous defence of an ethical theory based on a revised version of Platonic realism. In a wide-ranging discussion he examines well-known alternatives to Platonism, in particular Epicurus, Hobbes, Hume and Kant as well as contemporary 'practical reasoners', and argues that most post-Enlightenment the...(展开全部)

Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to communicate with one another, but did not have any properly moral concepts in which to exhort one another to meet certain standards and to lodge related claims and complaints. According to The Birth of Ethics, the members of that so...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 伯纳德•威廉斯（Bernard Williams，1929—2003） 20世纪最杰出的哲学家之一，先后任教于剑桥大学、牛津大学和加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校。其主要研究领域是伦理学、知识论、心灵哲学和政治哲学。威廉斯对功利主义和康德伦理学的批判，以及对道德和道德要求的本质的探究，主导了近五十年来西方伦理理论的思考，可以说是我们时代最重要的道德哲学家。主要著作包括《道德：伦理学导论》《道德运气》《伦理学与哲学的限度》《羞耻与必然性》等。 【译者简介】 魏犇群 香港中文大学哲学博士，现为中国人民大学哲学院讲师、杰出青年学者。主要研究领域为当代英美道德哲学，特别是元伦理学，以及心灵哲学。

In Morality Bernard Williams confronts the problems of writing moral philosophy and offers a stimulating alternative to more systematic accounts which seem nevertheless to have left all the important issues somewhere off the page. Williams explains, analyses and distinguishes a number of key positions, from the purely amoral to notions of subjective or relative morality, testin...(展开全部)

Bernard Williams's remarkable essay on morality confronts the problems of writing moral philosophy, and offers a stimulating alternative to more systematic accounts that seem nevertheless to have left all the important issues somewhere off the page. Williams explains, analyzes and distinguishes a number of key positions, from the purely amoral to notions of subjective or relati...(展开全部)

In Morality Bernard Williams confronts the problems of writing moral philosophy and offers a stimulating alternative to more systematic accounts which seem nevertheless to have left all the important issues somewhere off the page. Williams explains, analyses and distinguishes a number of key positions, from the purely amoral to notions of subjective or relative morality, testin...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 伯纳德•威廉斯（Bernard Williams，1929—2003） 20世纪最杰出的哲学家之一，先后任教于剑桥大学、牛津大学和加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校。其主要研究领域是伦理学、知识论、心灵哲学和政治哲学。威廉斯对功利主义和康德伦理学的批判，以及对道德和道德要求的本质的探究，主导了近五十年来西方伦理理论的思考，可以说是我们时代最重要的道德哲学家。主要著作包括《道德：伦理学导论》《道德运气》《伦理学与哲学的限度》《羞耻与必然性》等。 【译者简介】 魏犇群 香港中文大学哲学博士，现为中国人民大学哲学院讲师、杰出青年学者。主要研究领域为当代英美道德哲学，特别是元伦理学，以及心灵哲学。