Philip Pettit on Ethics without Transcendence

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Philip Pettit is L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra. </span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">appeared from OUP in 2007, edited by Geoffrey Brennan, R.E.Goodin, Frank Jackson and Michael Smith. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He works in moral and political theory and on background issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. His recent single-authored books include</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Common Mind</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(OUP 1996),</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Republicanism</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(OUP 1997),</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">A Theory of Freedom</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(OUP 2001),</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Rules, Reasons and Norms</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(OUP 2002),</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Penser en Societe</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(PUF, Paris 2004),</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Examen a Zapatero</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(Temas de Hoy, Madrid 2008),</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Made with Words: Hobbes on Mind, Society and Politics</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(PUP 2008);</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">On the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(CUP 2012); </span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(W.W.Norton 2014) and</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Robust Demands of the Good: Ethics with Attachment, Virtue and Respect</span></em> <span