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`Review from previous edition Simon Blackburn's short book takes the big moral questions head on and does so brilliantly. . . a witty, vivid writer with an enviable popular touch . . . this is a wonderfully enlightening book.' Ben Rogers, Sunday Telegraph,
`full of good sense' Sunday Times
`But for anyone wondering how big questions have bothered us over the years, this witty, rigorous book fills in the gaps.' PLAY, The Times
`always lively and never simplistic' Waterstone's Quarterly January 2002
`Good clearheaded stuff' Ted Honderich, The Times
`enjoyable and extremely readable . . . Blackburn . . . is breezy, helpful, reassuring' The Philosopher's Magazine
`sparklingly clear' Guardian
`a first rate and accessible guide which tackles the huge, perpetual questions' Nottingham Evaning Post
`full of good sense' Sunday Times
`But for anyone wondering how big questions have bothered us over the years, this witty, rigorous book fills in the gaps.' PLAY, The Times
`always lively and never simplistic' Waterstone's Quarterly January 2002
`Good clearheaded stuff' Ted Honderich, The Times
`enjoyable and extremely readable . . . Blackburn . . . is breezy, helpful, reassuring' The Philosopher's Magazine
`sparklingly clear' Guardian
`a first rate and accessible guide which tackles the huge, perpetual questions' Nottingham Evaning Post
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Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism, by the fear that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic, or competitive and aggressive. In this 'sparklingly clear' (Guardian) introduction to ethics Simon Blackburn tackles the major moral questions surrounding birth, death, happiness, desire and freedom, showing us how we should think about the meaning of life, and how we should mistrust the soundbite-sized absolutes that often dominate moral debates.
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This book delivers exactly what it promises. A nice, short and concise introduction to ethics. A quick read to get you started for further readings in ethics.
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A very useful Little Book,
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I enjoyed the simple approach, easy explanations and clear language. It is useful as a "Reader's Digest" view of ethics for the everyday person, or the beginner student.
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A disappointment,
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I would much prefer a traditional approach pinpointing the major contentions and problems of moral arguments advanced by thinkers past and present.
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Ethics: Let my imaginary friend tell you what to think,
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Rather than an overview of the topic, this book reads more like a personal essay, and is written in a rather disorganized fashion. The author's prejudice that anyone that believes in (or even considers the possibility) that there is an Almighty Baked Potato is not only in evidence but on constant display. Within the first few pages he manages to kill off the Almighty Baked Potato, and decrees that there is a higher ethical code than that given by any religion and by which religion itself can be judged. He then neatly sidesteps the obvious question of where such a code could possibly have come from, if not from an Almighty Baked Potato. He commits the fallacy common among academics - "Since I can't understand why the Almighty Baked Potato acted the way he did in a certain circumstance, it therefore follows that there is no Almighty Baked Potato." This is only a valid argument if your wisdom is infinite.Leaving this issue aside, I still found the book disjoined and disorganized. He doesn't do a good job of defining terms or listing the different theories, or showing how the study of ethics developed over time. He pretty much jumps directly from Socrates to Dante, skipping over about 1500 years of history that includes what are arguably some of the greatest thinkers on ethics and morals, St. Potato Head for example. |
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