Download or read book The Birth of Ethics written by Philip Pettit and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To know the nature of any phenomenon or practice, it is often a good idea to learn about how it might have emerged or might have been constructed. The Birth of Ethics offers an account of how morality might have emerged, without any planning, in a society with language but without any properly ethical concepts or practices. The conjectural history that it documents serves a philosophical purpose, for it directs us the role that morality plays in human life and the nature of morality that enables it to play that role.