Download or read book The Mystery of Moral Authority written by Russell Blackford and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mystery of Moral Authority argues for a sceptical and pragmatic view of morality as an all-too-human institution. Searching, intellectually rigorous, and always fair to rival views, it represents the state of the art in a tradition of moral philosophy that includes Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and J.L. Mackie.