Review of Why be Moral? : The Egoistic Challenge by John van Ingen [Book Review]

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74 (4) (1996)
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Abstract

Van Ingen's aim aim is to vindicate the moral life by mounting and then meeting a powerful challenge. But he makes it so easy to be moral - it is enough to care about one other person - and so tough to be amoral - it involves being absolutely selfish - that his challenge is no challenge at all. It's not much of a vindication of morality if the morality you vindicate makes Tony Soprano a moral person

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Charles R. Pigden
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