Bob Brecher is Reader in Moral Philosophy at the University of Brighton, UK and Director of its Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics. He is the author of two previous books, "Anselm's Argument: the Logic of Divine Existence" and "Getting What You Want?: a Critique of Liberal Morality" (1998). He has published widely in ethics and social and political philosophy and was the founding editor of the journal "Res Publica,"