Morality and Modernity

Ross Poole displays the social content of the various conceptions of moralityat work in contemporary society and casts a strikingly fresh light on suchfundament... » 

Ross Poole displays the social content of the various conceptions of moralityat work in contemporary society and casts a strikingly fresh light on suchfundamental problems as the place of reason in ethics moral objectivity andthe distinction between duty and virtue.The book provides a critical account of the moral theories of a number of majorphilosophers including Kant Marx Nietzsche Habermas Rawls Gewirth andMacIntyre. It also presents a systematic critique of three of the mostsignificant responses to modernity liberalism nationalism and nihilism. Ittakes seriously the suggestion that men and women are subject to differentconceptions of morality and places the issue of gender at the centre of moralphilosophy.Poole has written a valuable addition to the Ideas series. «