What is morality? -- Does morality exist? -- Would amorality be viable? -- Might amorality be preferable? -- Is amorality just another way of being moral? -- How shall we treat other animals?: a case study in applied amorality -- What is ethics?
0
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
In this volume, Marks offers a defense of amorality as both philosophically justified and practicably livable. In so doing, the book marks a radical departure from both the new atheism and the mainstream of modern ethical philosophy. While in synch with their underlying aim of grounding human existence in a naturalistic metaphysics, the book takes both to task for maintaining a complacent embrace of morality. Marks advocates wiping the slate clean of outdated connotations by replacing the language of morality with a language of desire. The book begins with an analysis of what morality is and th.