Ethics Matters
1st Edition
Published on 15. January 2013
256 pages
978-0-334-04928-9 (ISBN)
Description
Ethics Matters introduces students and general readers to the business of making moral decisions, engaging them in meaningful dialogue and inspiring them to find out more. Beginning with a discussion of the question of truth in Ethics, Peter and Charlotte Vardy outline and evaluate major approaches to doing ethics from Natural Law and Virtue Ethics to Situation Ethics and Postmodernism, considering how these might inform decision making in today's world.
Ethics Matters places the latest scholarship in context, clarifying how it relates to today's biggest challenges, without in any sense 'dumbing down'. The style is engaging and accessible; good use is made of examples from film, literature and current affairs to shine a light on the fundamental philosophic questions which underpin practical
dilemmas.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One Meta-ethics
- 1 Truth in Ethics
- 2 Moral Realism
- 3 Relativism
- Part Two Normative Ethics
- 4 Normative Ethics
- 5 Natural Law
- 6 Natural Law and Virtue Ethics Today
- 7 Classical Utilitarianism
- 8 Developments in Utilitarianism
- 9 Situation Ethics
- 10 Kantian Ethics
- 11 Two Roads Diverge
- Part Three Applied Ethics
- 12 Abortion, IVF, PGD, Germ-line Therapy and Embryonic Stem-Cell Research
- 13 Euthanasia
- 14 Business Ethics
- 15 Environmental Ethics
- 16 The Ethics of Warfare
- Conclusion Ethics Matters
- 17 Freedom and Conscience
- 18 Ethics Matters
- Index
