Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism, by the fear that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic, or competitive and aggressive. In this 'sparklingly clear' (Guardian) introduction to ethics Simon Blackburn tackles the major moral questions surrounding birth, death, happiness, desire and freedom, showing us how we should think about the meaning of life, and how we should mistrust the soundbite-sized absolutes that often dominate moral debates.
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当我们回忆一物,我们总是趋于用同样的情绪,把它当做即在目前似的去怀想它。但是这种趋势或努力,只要我们是清醒的,总是被我们所回忆着的足以排斥那物的存在的意象所阻碍。……渴望实在是与因所恨之物的不存在而起的快乐相反的痛苦。
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