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General Ethics is an ambitious and far-reaching attempt to present a theory of morals that is at once broad but specific, non-reductive but coherent. Agnes Heller's approach is governed by the question, one that is for her fundamental to any working understanding of morals and how they work in society: 'good persons exist -how are they possible?'. But General Ethics makes no sweeping, normative claims; rather, it explores what is good, or has considered to be good within various normative systems of belief. In other words, she poses the question, just what kind of Is is Ought?Central to this method is Agnes Heller's premise that our social world view is constructed around a hierarchy of ethical norms. Ethics are therefore a condition of our world, because our presence in the world is governed by social meanings which are the instruments of social regulation. But behind the possibility for a stratification of mores lies that of direct social stratification -and, by extension, of domination. The author explores the social corollaries of this grounding of ethics in the normative categories of our social 'life world'.Analysing the central concepts of ethics (such as voluntary actions, responsibility, consequences, justice, as well as wider notions of moral authority and mental states), Agnes Heller provides a vastly suggestive and comprehensive grounding for a general theory of morals. Attempts to provide a theory of morals. The author explores what is good, or has been considered to be good within various normative systems of belief. She argues that our social world view is constructed around a hierarchy of ethical norms and explores its social corollaries.