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Practical Ethics by Viscount Samuel

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Practical Ethics
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN/ASIN: 1406746096
Number of pages: 264

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Ethics seeks to answer two questions -- What is to be regarded as right and as wrong? and Why should people do what is right and not do what is wrong? In other words, the questions are What is the content of morality? and What is the sanction for morality?

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