Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Investigating the Question
6. Why Be Moral – A Pseudo-Problem? 13
7. Why Be Moral: A Meaningful Question? 31
8. Part II: Exploring Viable Answers
9. Why Be Moral? A New Answer to an Old Question 45
10. Aristotle on Virtuous Questioning of Morality 65
11. The Egoistic Answer 81
12. Why Be Moral? An Argument from the Human Condition in Response to Hobbes and Nietzsche 103
13. Morality, Self-Constitution, and the Limits of Integrity 123
14. What is Kant’s Precise Answer to the Question ‘Why Be Moral’? 141
15. The “Why Be Moral?” Question and the Meaning of Life 159
16. Why Be Moral? A Kierkegaardian Approach 173
17. Acknowledging the Moral Law 199
18. “Why Be Moral?” Pragmatism’s Attempt to Dismiss the Issue 217
19. Is the Overridingness of Moral Reasons a Semantic Fact? 235
20. Williams on Integrity, Ground Projects and Reasons to Be Moral 249
21. Contributors 273
22. Index 275