Author : Angus Taylor
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 2003-05-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781551115696
"A previous edition of this book appeared under the title Magpies, Monkeys, and Morals. The new edition has been updated throughout. Substantial new material has been added to the text, including discussions of virtue ethics and Rawlsian contractarianism. The bibliography has been significantly enlarged and now includes more than five hundred entries."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Christina Hendricks
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 22,94 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 : John Deigh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,53 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 : Tom L. Beauchamp
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 30,86 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
This accessible overview of classical and modern moral theory with short readings provides comprehensive coverage of ethics and unique coverage of rights, justice, liberty and law. Real-life cases introduce each chapter. While the book's content is theoretical rather than applied ethics, Beauchamp consistently applies the theories to practical moral problems. Aristotle, Hume, Kant, and Mill are at the book's core and they are placed in the context of moral philosophical controversies of the last 30 years. In this edition one-third of the reading selections are new and all the selections in chapter 8 on rights are new. Chapter 7 on Hume has been heavily reshaped. Chapter 1 has been reduced to get students past introductory material and into the philosophers.
Author : Robin Attfield
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1441182055
A major new introduction to ethics, designed specifically to meet the needs of undergraduate students.
Author : Janie B. Butts
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 1284170225
The fifth edition of Nursing Ethics has been revised to reflect the most current issues in healthcare ethics including new cases, laws, and policies. The text continues to be divided into three sections: Foundational Theories, Concepts and Professional Issues; Moving Into Ethics Across the Lifespan; and Ethics Related to Special Issues focused on specific populations and nursing roles.
Author : Simon Blackburn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 14,64 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 : John Henry Muirhead
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Ethics
ISBN :
Author : Kimberly Hutchings
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1509513981
This revised edition of Kimberly Hutchings’s best-selling textbook provides an accessible introduction to the field of Global Ethics for students of politics, international relations and globalization. It offers an overview and assessment of key perspectives in Global Ethics and their implications for substantive moral issues in global politics. These include the morality of state and non-state violence, the obligations of rich to poor in a globalizing world, and the scope and nature of international human rights. The second edition contains expanded coverage of pressing contemporary issues relating to migration, changes in the technologies of war, and the global environment. Hutchings’s excellent book helps non-specialist students to understand the assumptions underpinning different moral traditions, and enables them to formulate their own views on how to approach moral judgement and prescription – essential in a world which, though it is shared by all, possesses massive cultural differences and inequalities of power.
Author : Jussi Suikkanen
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 9781118479407
This is Ethics presents an accessible and engaging introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary moral philosophy. Covers a wide range of topics which are actively debated in contemporary moral philosophy Addresses the nature of happiness, well-being, and the meaning of life, the role of moral principles in moral thinking, moral motivation, and moral responsibility Covers timely ethical issues such as population growth and climate change Offers additional resources at www.thisisphilosophy.comFeatures extensive annotated bibliographies, summaries, and study questions for further in.
