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Michael Tomasello

The Birth of Ethics: Reconstructing the role and nature of morality by Philip Pettit, edited by Kinch Hoekstra with Michael Tomasello

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May 2019, no. 411
David Neil reviews 'The Birth of Ethics: Reconstructing the role and nature of morality' by Philip Pettit, edited by Kinch Hoekstra with Michael Tomasello

The Birth of Ethics is a remarkably ambitious and innovative work by one of Australia’s most eminent philosophers. It is the full-length statement of an argument originally set out in Philip Pettit’s 2015 Berkeley Tanner Lectures on Human Values. The aim of the book is to ‘offer an account of ethics …

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