Does rationality define moral space? What if egoism can be shown to fall within this space as defined? But then how could anything so enclosed as criteria of rationality have been said to constitute morality? This book argues that this moral agoraphobia of certain contemporary moral theories hides the possibility of different moral perspectives. Examples from George Eliot's Middlemarch and Andre Gide's The Immoralist are worked into this argument.
| ISBN: | 9780820428390 |
| Publication date: | 1st September 1996 |
| Author: | Kim Chong Chong |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 104 pages |
| Series: | Revisioning Philosophy |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Social and political philosophy Behaviourism, Behavioural theory |