This book discusses whether we desire things because they are good, or whether they are good because we desire them.

What does pleasure have to do with morality? What role, if any, should intuition have in the formation of moral theory? If something is ‘simulated’, can it

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

My interest in the issues considered here arose out of my great frustration in trying to attack the all-pervasive relativism of my students in introductory ethi