Hanno Sauer The invention of good and evil

a world history of morality

"A grand, sweeping history of the evolution of morality across the entire existence of humankind. For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of 'Good' and 'Evil', and weaving them into our cities, laws and customs. Morality is a concept that can feel joyless and claustrophobic, associated with restraint and coercion, restriction and sacrifice, inquisition, confession and a guilty conscience. For many, it is a device...

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Engels | 406 pagina's | Profile Books, London | 2024

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Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond good and evil

prelude to a philosphy of the future

Schetsen van de Duitse filosoof (1844-1900) voor een nieuwe moraal, die een omkering van de christelijke waarden inhoudt.

Non-fictie

Engels | 240 pagina's | Penguin books, London | 2003

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Alasdair MacIntyre A short history of ethics

a history of moral philosophy from the Homeric age to the twentieth century

Engels | 273 pagina's | Routledge Classics, London [etc.] | 2002

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Richard Kraut What is good and why?

the ethics of well-being

Non-fictie

Engels | 286 pagina's | Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA [etc.] | 2007

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