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published At The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1971; xi + 370 pages; � 15 x 22 cm; "good" blue cloth hardback in "fair" red dustwrapper w � hich has a neat horizontal crease along the top edge & is sunned � on spine; formerly the property of the City Of Liverpool Public � Libraries with their ornate armorial bookplate on the front � pastedown and their smaller classification bookplate on the rear � endpaper and 'ghost' of Dewey label on dw spine; evidence still of librarian's use of transparent tape; a little-used reference � copy with none of the defects associated with lending copies; "In this book, the author combines the discussion of metaethics and substantive moral philosophy, while drawing on traditional philosophical insights, recently elaborated techniques of philosophical analysis, and game and economic theory. A general theory of the meaning of sentences using 'reasons for action' and related terminology is developed, which indicates how a propositional analysis of such sentences � can also illuminate their practical use and psychological � influence on our actions. The discussion covers issues of � sentence meaning and speech acts, but also includes important � questions of philosophical psychology (the nature of regret, � guilt and shame), and shows how empirical theories of moral � psychology (those of Freud and Piaget, for example) can clarify, � and be clarified, philosophical theory. The central feature of � this work is its construction of a general theory of rationality � and morality, and its attempt to formulate a structure of action � guiding principles which make specific the requirements that � those concepts impose on our conduct. Substantive questions of leg � al, political, and personal morality are discussed and an account � given of social rules, rights, duties and obligation. Finally, an � answer is sought to the question 'Why be moral?'" crisp/clean copy of an infrequently encountered work.�

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