Draws on many other disciplines, as well as moral philosophy, to convey the intellectual excitement of the search for answers to basic questions about how we ought to live. What is ethics? Where does it come from? Can we really hope to find any rational way of deciding how we ought to live?

Draws on many other disciplines, as well as moral philosophy, to convey the intellectual excitement of the search for answers to basic questions about how we ought to live. What is ethics? Where does it come from? Can we really hope to find any rational way of deciding how we ought to live?