Why Be Moral? / Beatrix Himmelmann, Robert B Louden (Eds.)

Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction / Himmelmann, Beatrix -- Part I: Investigating the Question -- Why Be Moral -- A Pseudo-Problem? / Birnbacher, Dieter -- Why Be Moral: A Meaningful Question? / Schaber, Peter -- Part II: Exploring Viable Answers -- Why Be Moral? A New Answer to an Old Question / Louden, Robert B. -- Aristotle on Virtuous Questioning of Morality / Fossheim, Hallvard J. -- The Egoistic Answer / Russøy Labukt, Ivar -- Why Be Moral? An Argument from the Human Condition in Response to Hobbes and Nietzsche / Himmelmann, Beatrix -- Morality, Self-Constitution, and the Limits of Integrity / Sussman, David -- What is Kant's Precise Answer to the Question 'Why Be Moral'? / Horn, Christoph -- The "Why Be Moral?" Question and the Meaning of Life / Landau, Iddo -- Why Be Moral? A Kierkegaardian Approach / Fremstedal, Roe -- Acknowledging the Moral Law / Eldridge, Richard -- "Why Be Moral?" Pragmatism's Attempt to Dismiss the Issue / Lundestad, Erik -- Is the Overridingness of Moral Reasons a Semantic Fact? / Wittwer, Héctor -- Williams on Integrity, Ground Projects and Reasons to Be Moral / Thomas, Alan -- Contributors -- Index

What reasons do we have to be moral, and are these reasons more compelling than the reasons we have to pursue non-moral projects? Ever since the Sophists first raised this question, it has been a focal point of debate. Why be Moral? is a collection of new essays on this fundamental philosophical problem, written by an international team of leading scholars in the field

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