The Myth of Morality

Richard Joyce argues in this study that moral discourse is hopelessly flawed. At the heart of ordinary moral judgments is a notion of moral inescapability or practical authority which upon investigation cannot be reasonably defended. He asserts moreover that natural selection is to blame in that it has provided us with a tendency to invest the world with values that it does not contain and demands that it does not make. This original and innovative book will appeal to readers interested in the problems of moral philosophy.