Review of The Limits of Obligation by James S. Fishkin
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
1-1984
ISSN
1539-297X
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Language
en-US
Abstract
The central claim of this intriguing book is less morally imperative than those arguments but, at the theoretical level at least, no less challenging. It is that the same basic cruel facts of life generate a dilemma: if we are to have a coherent moral view, we must revise some fundamental assumptions that we make about morality. The author's aim is not to show how this problem can be solved, but to persuade us it is real and not easily avoided.
Recommended Citation
David B. Lyons,
Review of The Limits of Obligation by James S. Fishkin
,
in
94
Ethics
327
(1984).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/2347
