
Introducing Ethics
A Beginner's Guide Through Six Major Thinkers
Lee Braver(Author)
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Published on 23. March 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-1-64792-271-9 (ISBN)
Description
Introducing Ethics guides us through the history of Western ethics, starting with Socrates's effort to use reason for questions about what it means to be a good person and what we should do. We then explore three major moral theories-John Stuart Mill's utilitarianism, Immanuel Kant's deontology, and Aristotle's character ethics-as if they were a large-scale Socratic dialogue, where each raises objections and builds on the others. We conclude with two twentieth-century challenges to Socrates's approach: Carol Gilligan's feminism and Jean
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Language
English
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 139 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64792-271-9 (9781647922719)
Schweitzer Classification