Bernard Arthur Owen Williams

A. W. Moore

Ethics and the Limits of Philosophyis widely acknowledged to be Bernard Williams' most important book and a contemporary classic of moral philosophy. Delivering a sustained critique of moral theory from Kant onward, Williams reorients ethical theory towards "truth, truthfulness and the meaning of an individual life." He explores and reflects on the thorniest problems in contemporary philosophy and offers new ideas about central issues such as relativism, objectivity and the possibility of ethical knowledge. This edition includes a new commentary on the text by A.W.Moore, St.Hugh's College, Oxford. By the time of his death in 2003, Bernard Williams was one of the greatest philosophers of his generation. He taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Berkeley and Oxford. He is the author of Morality; Utilitarianism: For andAgainst; Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry and Truth and Truthfulness.

Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

Bernard Williams

This collection of historical essays range from the 6th century BC to the 20th century AD, from Homer to Collingwood by way of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, Descartes, Hume and Nietzsche. This is the history of philosophy written philosophically. Insights into the past counteract blind acceptance of present assumptions.

Essays in the History of Philosophy

The Sense of the Past

Joseph Raz

Christine Marion Korsgaard

Robert B. Pippin

The Practice of Value

Amartya Sen

Utilitarianism considered both as a theory of personal morality and a theory of public choice.

Utilitarianism and Beyond

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Moralitatea

Bernard Arthur Owen Williams

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