The birth of ethics : reconstructing the role and nature of morality /

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...

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Main Author:	Pettit, Philip, 1945- (Author)
Other Authors:	Hoekstra, Kinch (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	[New York, N.Y.] : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Series:	Berkeley Tanner lectures.
Subjects:	Ethics > History. Ethics. History.