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A HAPPY IMMORALIST: THE CASE OF RICHARD RICH

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2022

Steven M. Cahn
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Abstract

Many philosophers, past and present, have been loath to admit the possibility of a happy immoralist. Here is a historical case featured in the play and film A Man for All Seasons.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 21 , Issue 61 , Summer 2022 , pp. 29 - 31
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Institute of Philosophy

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Gert, B. (2004) ‘Comments on Cahn's “The Happy Immoralist”’, Journal of Social Philosophy 35: 18–19, at p. 19.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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