The Moral Fool: A Case for Amorality

Hans-Georg Moeller

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June, 2009
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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Is It Good to Be Good?

Part 1. On Amorality

1. The Moral Fool

2. Negative Ethics

Part 2. A Pathology of Ethics

3. The Redundancy of Ethics

4. The “Morality of Anger”

5. Ethics and Aesthetics

6. The Presumptions of Philosophical Ethics

7. The Myth of Moral Progress

Part 3. Ethics in Contemporary Society

8. For the Separation of Morality and Law

9. Morality and Civil Rights

10. How to Get a Death Verdict

11. Masters of War

12. Ethics and the Mass Media

Conclusion: Applied Amorality

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Asian/Islamic Philosophy
• Ethics

About the Author

Hans-Georg Moeller is senior lecturer in the Philosophy Department at University College Cork, Ireland. His publications on Daoism and social systems theory include Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Philosophy of the Daodejing as well as a translation of the Daodejing, Daoism Explained: From the Dream of the Butterfly to the Fishnet Allegory, and Luhmann Explained: From Souls to Systems.

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