A Modern Introduction to Moral Philosophy.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 On Problems of Definition -- 3 On Statements, Synthetic and Analytic -- 4 Whether Value Judgments are Statements and Whether Values are Properties -- 5 The Meaning of 'Good' -- 6 The Meaning of 'True' -- 7 "Can I be sincerely mistaken about what is right? -- 8 'Ought' and 'Is' (i)-A Matter of Logic? -- 9 'Ought' and 'Is' (ii)-'A Recognisable Distinction' -- 10 'Liking' and 'Approval' -- 11 The Meaning of 'Moral', of 'Value Judgment' and of 'Neutral Statement' -- 12 Reasons, Causes and Free Will -- 13 Retrospect -- Appendix Further Reflections on "The Meaning of 'True' -- Bibliography -- Index.

Originally published in 1958, this book shows how a systematic consideration of what exactly may be meant by calling anything 'good', inevitably leads on to the more general and fundamental problem of the relations between value-judgments and statements of fact.

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