![]() What is special about Blackburn's naturalistic ethics is that it does not debunk the ethical by reducing it to the non-ethical. Many philosophers have wanted a naturalistic ethics a theory that integrates our understanding of human morality with the rest of our understanding of the world we live in. ![]() ![]() ) also on game theory and cognitive science in his account of the structures of human motivation. So these are the sorts of questions he addresses: Why do we behave as we do? Can we improve? Is our ethics at war with our passions, or is it an upshot of those passions? Blackburn seeks the answers in an exploration of guilt, shame, disgust, and other moral emotions he draws (. He maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. Simon Blackburn puts forward a compelling original philosophy of human motivation and morality. ![]()
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