A book to read

Being Good, A short introduction to ethics, by Simon Blackburn, Oxford University Press, copyright 2001.

From the front matter:

Simon Blackburn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Until 2000 he was Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and from 1969 to 1990 a Fellow and Tutor at Pembroke College, Oxford.

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