Rush Rhees questions the viability of ethical theories and the final claims they make in ethics. He indicates how you can either be troubled with realizing what one should do whereas recognising that one's resolution is a private one. those insights, arrived at in a particular variety, attribute of Rhees, are then utilized to problems with lifestyles and demise, human sexuality and our relationships to animals. To know why philosophy can't solution such questions for us is an confirmation, no longer a denial, in their significance.
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