Viable Values

A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality

By (author) Tara Smith

Hardback - £123.00

Publication date:

12 January 2000

Length of book:

224 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780847697601

Viable Values examines the most basic foundations of value and morality, demonstrating the shortcomings of major traditional views and proposing that morality is grounded in the objective requirements of human life. Smith argues that human beings need to be moral in order to live, explaining how life is the standard of morality, how flourishing is the proper end and reward of living morally, and how an intelligent egoism is the path to flourishing.
Smith writes in very clear, engaging language, refreshing and enjoyable. Good index. Recommended.