Author : Fred Feldman
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Education
ISBN :
Clear, accurate presentation of the most important classical and contemporary theories in normative and metaethics-utilitarianism (act and rule), egoism, the categorical imperative, social contract theory, formalism, relativism (belief and conceptual), naturalism and non- naturalism, emotivism and prescriptive. Integrates thorough discussion of related concepts including justice, the will, autonomy, promises, punishment and universal law.
Author : John Deigh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 052177246X
This book examines the central questions of ethics through a study of the great ethical works of Western philosophy.
Author : Christina Hendricks
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781989014189
We often make judgments about good and bad, right and wrong. Philosophical ethics is the critical examination of these and other concepts central to how we evaluate our own and each others' behavior and choices. This text examines some of the main threads of discussion on these topics that have developed over the last couple of millenia, mostly within the Western cultural tradition.The book is designed to be used alone or alongside a reader of historical and contemporary original sources, and is freely available in web and digital formats at https: //press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-ethics/. If you are adopting or adapting this book for a course, please let us know on our adoption form for the Introduction to Philosophy open textbook series: https: //docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwf2E7bRGvWefjhNZ07kgpgnNFxVxxp-iidPE5gfDBQNGBGg/viewform?usp=sf_link. Cover art by Heather Salazar; cover design by Jonathan Lashley. One of nine books in the Introduction to Philosophy open textbook serie
Author : William K. Frankena
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Author : Steven M. Cahn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 9780190887902
In this remarkably accessible, concise, and engaging introduction to moral philosophy, Steven M. Cahn brings together a rich, balanced, and wide-ranging collection of fifty-two readings on ethical theory and contemporary moral issues. He has carefully edited all the articles to ensure that they will be exceptionally clear and understandable to undergraduate students. The selections are organized into three parts--Challenges to Morality, Moral Theories, and Moral Problems--providing instructors with flexibility in designing and teaching a variety of ethics courses. Each reading is followed by study questions. The fifth edition features twelve new articles and unparalleled representation of women philosophers, with nearly half of the essays authored or coauthored by women. A password-protected Instructor's Manual is available on the book's Ancillary Resource Center. Visit the book's free, open-access Companion Website for additional student and instructor resources.
Author : R. A. Hope
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 34,44 MB
Release : 2004-09-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0192802828
Issues in medical ethics are rarely out of the media and it is an area of ethics that has particular interest for the general public as well as the medical practitioner. This short and accessible introduction deals with moral questions such as euthanasia as well as asking how health care resources can be distributed fairly.
Author : David Shoemaker
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 19,94 MB
Release : 2008-10-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1551118823
The relationship between personal identity and ethics remains on of the most intriguing yet vexing issues in philosophy. It is commonplace to hold that moral responsibility for past actions requires that the responsible agent is in some respect identical to the agent who performed the action. Is this true? On the other hand, can ethics constrain our account of personal identity? Do the practical requirements of moral theory commit us to the view that persons do remain identical over time? For example, does the moral status of abortion or stem cell research depend on whether personal identity is based on psychological or biological properties? Or is it the case that personal identity is not, in fact, relevant to ethics? Personal Identity and Ethics provides the first comprehensive examination of these issues. Topics include personal identity and prudential rationality; personal identity’s significance for moral responsibility and ethical theory; and the practical consequences of accounts of personal identity for issues such as abortion, stem cell research, cloning, advance directives, population ethics, multiple personality disorder, and the definition of death.
Author : Simon Blackburn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 2002-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191647314
It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, or sticking to duty, or insisting on our rights, we can be confused, or be paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless. Many are afraid that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic, or competitive and aggressive. Simon Blackburn, author of the best-selling Think, structures this short introduction around these and other threats to ethics. Confronting seven different objections to our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures, he charts a course through the philosophical quicksands that often engulf us. Then, turning to problems of life and death, he shows how we should think about the meaning of life, and how we should mistrust the sound-bite sized absolutes that often dominate moral debates. Finally he offers a critical tour of the ways the philosophical tradition has tried to provide foundations for ethics, from Plato and Aristotle through to contemporary debates.
Author : Brian Besong
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,51 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1498298893
It is natural for us to wonder what should I do, and why? And although a combination of common sense and upbringing aids us in answering our questions, it is also natural for us to seek answers that are grounded in something deeper and more enduring than our personal dispositions and those of our parents. We seek a genuinely good life and the practical wisdom necessary to arrive at happiness. In this Introduction to Ethics, Brian Besong presents a comprehensive and contemporary introduction to the practical wisdom handed down to us by Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, and many others—a position now commonly called “natural law.” Written as a beginner’s guide, the book systematically explores a range of moral issues including moral knowledge, happiness, right and wrong action, and virtues, to name a few. Introduction to Ethics explains in a lively way how natural law provides principled and persuasive answers to our most fundamental moral questions.
Author : Adam Briggle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521878411
This book explores ethical issues at the interfaces of science, policy, religion and technology, cultivating the skills for critical analysis.
