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Philip Pettit

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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Just Freedom: A moral compass for a complex world by Philip Pettit

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August 2014, no. 363
Glyn Davis reviews 'Just Freedom: A moral compass for a complex world' by Philip Pettit

In a recent Prospect interview, distinguished Princeton and ANU scholar Philip Pettit described political philosophy as a conversation around various themes. Some voices focus on power or freedom, others on democracy or the nature of the state. The conversation should extend beyond the academy, argued Pettit, to embrace public intellectuals, journalists, commentators, political scientists, activists, and government.

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