ABSTRACT. In this paper I wish to present and defend my philosophy or rather the philosophy that I consider sound. The ethics I will be defending is concerned with guiding human living to be successful, to excel as human living in the particular instance of the individual agent. Some minimal general principles will be identified while the highly plural element of right conduct will also be made evident. After I consider ethics, I will turn to politics and explore what kind of communities are best suited for human beings. Such communities may well be highly diverse but arguably, since they are to be places for human beings to live and to flourish, they will have to have certain attributes or constitutive features (constitutions) that are best for people.

Keywords: moral philosophy; society; politics; human being; individualism

How to cite: Machan, Tibor R. (2017). “Moral Philosophy and Society,” Review of Contemporary Philosophy 16: 104–135.

Received 19 January 2016 • Received in revised form 3 March 2016
Accepted 7 March 2016 • Available online 22 June 2017

doi:10.22381/RCP1620175