Author(s): Raimond Gaita

Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs

In Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, Raimond Gaita draws moral philosophy away from the academic study of ethics and considers instead how real people actually talk and feel about morality, using good and evil as examples. Raimond Gaita's Good and Evil is one of the most important, original and provocative books on the nature of morality to have been published in recent years. It is essential reading for anyone interested in what it means to talk about good and evil. Gaita argues that questions about morality are inseparable from the preciousness of each human being, an issue we can only address if we place the idea of remorse at the centre of moral life. Drawing on an astonishing range of thinkers and writers, including Plato, Wittgenstein, George Orwell and Primo Levi, Gaita also reflects on the place of reason and truth in morality and ultimately how questions about good and evil are connected to the meaning of our lives. This revised edition of Good and Evil includes a substantial new preface and afterword by the author. One of the best-known authors on the Routledge Philosophy list Philosopher's Dog has sold over 3,000 copies in 3 months and reprinted three times Will have a long life, become a strong-selling backlist title and possibly a Routledge Classic First time we have had Australian rights for Gaita's work