Questions about moral and legal theories

Author: Richard A. Posner
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Publish Date: 2001-11-01
Features: This book is divided into two parts, each with two chapters. Part one is mainly critical, and Part two is mainly constructive. The chapters discuss normative moral theory itself. The author's argument is that if those who philosophically argue that we should change our moral beliefs or behavioral patterns only want to change these beliefs and possibly the behaviors influenced by them, then they are wasting their time. Because, moral intuition neither submits to nor should it submit to all the weak arguments that philosophers might propose in relation to moral disputes.