How to Be Good: The Possibility of Moral Enhancement

by John Harris

Book Overview

'How to be Good?' is the pre-eminent question for ethics, although one that philosophers and ethicists seldom address head on. Knowing how to be good, or perhaps (more modestly and more accurately) knowing how to go about trying to be good, and the ways in which it is pointless or self-defeating to try to be good, is of immense theoretical and practical importance. And what goes for trying to be good oneself, goes also for trying to provide others...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198822405
• ISBN13: 9780198822400
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"