Author: Louis P. Pojman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
This reader contains 72 classical and contemporary articles organized around 13 crucial issues in ethical theory: the nature of ethics, ethical relativism, ethical egoism and evolutionary ethics, value, utilitarianism, deontological ethics, virtue ethics, the fact/value problem, moral realism and skepticism, morality and self-interest, ethics and religion, justice, and rights. The articles are arranged within a coherent, teachable framework in which presentation of each problem progresses from the classical to the contemporary, usually treating it in a dialectic (pro and con) format.
Ethical Theory
Author: Louis P. Pojman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
This reader contains 72 classical and contemporary articles organized around 13 crucial issues in ethical theory: the nature of ethics, ethical relativism, ethical egoism and evolutionary ethics, value, utilitarianism, deontological ethics, virtue ethics, the fact/value problem, moral realism and skepticism, morality and self-interest, ethics and religion, justice, and rights. The articles are arranged within a coherent, teachable framework in which presentation of each problem progresses from the classical to the contemporary, usually treating it in a dialectic (pro and con) format.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
This reader contains 72 classical and contemporary articles organized around 13 crucial issues in ethical theory: the nature of ethics, ethical relativism, ethical egoism and evolutionary ethics, value, utilitarianism, deontological ethics, virtue ethics, the fact/value problem, moral realism and skepticism, morality and self-interest, ethics and religion, justice, and rights. The articles are arranged within a coherent, teachable framework in which presentation of each problem progresses from the classical to the contemporary, usually treating it in a dialectic (pro and con) format.
Readings in Ethics
Author: Louis F. Groarke
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 177048678X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Readings in Ethics offers a vast collection of carefully edited readings arranged chronologically across five historical periods. The selections cover many major Western and non-Western schools of thought, including Daoism, virtue ethics, Buddhism, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, contractarianism, liberalism, Marxism, feminism, and communitarianism. In addition to texts from canonical philosophers such as Plato, Mill, Wollstonecraft, and Rawls, the volume draws from other sources of wisdom: stories, fables, proverbs, medieval mystical treatises, literature, and poetry. The editors have also written substantial introductions, annotations, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading, making for a thorough guided tour of our ethical past and present.
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 177048678X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Readings in Ethics offers a vast collection of carefully edited readings arranged chronologically across five historical periods. The selections cover many major Western and non-Western schools of thought, including Daoism, virtue ethics, Buddhism, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, contractarianism, liberalism, Marxism, feminism, and communitarianism. In addition to texts from canonical philosophers such as Plato, Mill, Wollstonecraft, and Rawls, the volume draws from other sources of wisdom: stories, fables, proverbs, medieval mystical treatises, literature, and poetry. The editors have also written substantial introductions, annotations, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading, making for a thorough guided tour of our ethical past and present.
Readings in Christian Ethics
Author: David K. Clark
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 0801025818
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Essays by leading ethicists provide students with a comprehensive introduction to ethical thinking.
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 0801025818
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Essays by leading ethicists provide students with a comprehensive introduction to ethical thinking.
Conduct and Character
Author: Mark Timmons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This anthology of 29 readings on philosophical theories of morality is organized according to type of moral theory (utilitarianism, egoism, virtue ethics, the ethics of care, etc.), with a separate chapter devoted to each type. Reading selections in the chapters provide a balance of both classical and contemporary philosophical writings, representing a spectrum of viewpoints on each theory. In addition, the collection contains an introductory essay on moral theory by the editor.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This anthology of 29 readings on philosophical theories of morality is organized according to type of moral theory (utilitarianism, egoism, virtue ethics, the ethics of care, etc.), with a separate chapter devoted to each type. Reading selections in the chapters provide a balance of both classical and contemporary philosophical writings, representing a spectrum of viewpoints on each theory. In addition, the collection contains an introductory essay on moral theory by the editor.
Ethics
Author: George Sher
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415782309
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
This is an anthology of sixty-six readings covering the central topics, theories, and debates in ethics.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415782309
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
This is an anthology of sixty-six readings covering the central topics, theories, and debates in ethics.
Contemporary Moral Arguments
Author: Lewis Vaughn
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 9780199922260
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Taking a unique approach that emphasizes careful reasoning, this cutting-edge reader is structured around twenty-seven landmark arguments that have provoked heated debates on current ethical issues.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 9780199922260
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Taking a unique approach that emphasizes careful reasoning, this cutting-edge reader is structured around twenty-seven landmark arguments that have provoked heated debates on current ethical issues.
Readings in Ethical Theory
Author: Wilfrid Sellars
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
The Ethical Life
Author:
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780190058258
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"A compact yet thorough collection of readings in ethical theory and contemporary moral problems - at the best price"--
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780190058258
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"A compact yet thorough collection of readings in ethical theory and contemporary moral problems - at the best price"--
Applied Ethics
Author: Peter Singer
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198750676
Category : Applied ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This volume collects a wealth of articles covering a range of topics of practical concern in the field of ethics, including active and passive euthanasia, abortion, organ transplants, capital punishment, the consequences of human actions, slavery, overpopulation, the separate spheres of men and women, animal rights, and game theory and the nuclear arms race. The contributors are Thomas Nagel, David Hume, James Rachels, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Michael Tooley, John Harris, John Stuart Mill, Louis Pascal, Jonathan Glover, Derek Parfit, R.M. Hare, Janet Radcliffe Richards, Peter Singer, and Nicholas Measor.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198750676
Category : Applied ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This volume collects a wealth of articles covering a range of topics of practical concern in the field of ethics, including active and passive euthanasia, abortion, organ transplants, capital punishment, the consequences of human actions, slavery, overpopulation, the separate spheres of men and women, animal rights, and game theory and the nuclear arms race. The contributors are Thomas Nagel, David Hume, James Rachels, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Michael Tooley, John Harris, John Stuart Mill, Louis Pascal, Jonathan Glover, Derek Parfit, R.M. Hare, Janet Radcliffe Richards, Peter Singer, and Nicholas Measor.
Readings in Health Care Ethics - Second Edition
Author: Elisabeth (Boetzkes) Gedge
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1554810388
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 675
Book Description
Readings in Health Care Ethics provides a wide-ranging selection of important and engaging contributions to the field of health care ethics. The second edition adds a chapter on health care in Canada, and the introduction has been expanded to include discussion of a new direction in feminist naturalized ethics. The book presupposes no prior knowledge, only an interest in the bioethical issues that are shaping our world.
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1554810388
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 675
Book Description
Readings in Health Care Ethics provides a wide-ranging selection of important and engaging contributions to the field of health care ethics. The second edition adds a chapter on health care in Canada, and the introduction has been expanded to include discussion of a new direction in feminist naturalized ethics. The book presupposes no prior knowledge, only an interest in the bioethical issues that are shaping our world.