Coen's Ethics and Morality - A Review

There exists some set of unspecified human rights which are inviolable and can never be traded for or eroded in favour of more wealth and fun. Coen seems keenly aware of the claim that right and wrong are incoherent concepts when unmoored from some set of transcendental requirements. He dodges this problem by stating at front that i will not consider meta ethics, the study of the underlying nature of ethical judgments. Instead, i will simply assume that right andwrong concepts which make fundamental sense. This approach is a good one, for otherwise cohen's book would degenerate something of no applicability to real life and of no interest to mainstream readers. For any western society prior to