Ethics : Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780205672363 | 0205672361
Edition: 10thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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With a clear presentation,Ethics: Theory and Practiceeducates readers about ethical theory and has them apply what they learn to specific classic and contemporary moral problems (lying, cheating, establishing ethical business practices, honoring ethical obligations in medicine, etc.). Jacques P. Thiroux first wrote this text 1977 in order to educate readers about ethical theory and its applications in a way that beginning students could understand. The result was an accessible text that isn't too technical and doesn't plunge into complex readin... MORE
| Preface | |
| The Nature of Morality | |
| Objectives | |
| What is Philosophy and Ethics Relationship to It? | |
| Key Terms | |
| Approaches to the Study of Morality | |
| Morality and Its Applications | |
| Where Does Morality Come From? | |
| Customary or Traditional and Reflective Morality | |
| Morality, Law, and Religion | |
| ... MORE | |
| Why Should Human Beings Be Moral? | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Exercises for Review | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Notes | |
| Research Navigator | |
| Consequentialist (Teleological) Theories of Morality | |
| Objectives | |
| Psychological Egoism | |
| Ethical Egoism | |
| Utilitarianism | |
| Difficulty with Consequentialist Theories in General | |
| Care Ethics | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Exercises for Review | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Notes | |
| Research Navigator | |
| Nonconsequentialist (Deontological) Theories of Morality | |
| Objectives | |
| Act Nonconsequentialist Theories | |
| Rule Nonconsequentialist Theories | |
| General Criticisms of Nonconsequentialist Theories | |
| Conclusions | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Exercises for Review | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Notes | |
| Research Navigator | |
| Virtue Ethics | |
| Objectives | |
| Definition of Terms | |
| Aristotles Nichomachean Ethics | |
| Confucian Moral Self-Cultivation | |
| Confucian Role Ethics | |
| Contemporary Analysis of Virtue Ethics | |
| Who Is The Ideal Virtuous Person? | |
| Vice and Virtue | |
| Conclusions | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Excersices for Review | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Notes | |
| Research Navigator | |
| Absolutism versus Relativism | |
| Objectives | |
| The Meanings of Absolute | |
| The Meaning of Relative | |
| Cultural Relativism and Cultural Absolutism | |
| Propositions and Truth | |
| Conclusion | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Exercises for Review | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Notes | |
| Research Navigator | |
| Freedom versus Determinism | |
| Objectives | |
| The Meaning of Determinism | |
| Types and Theories of Determinism | |
| Fatalism and Hard and Soft Determinism | |
| Indeterminism | |
| Criticisms of Hard Determinism and Arguments for Freedom | |
| Conclusion: Soft Determinism | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Exercises for Review | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Notes | |
| Research Navigator | |
| Reward and Punishment | |
| Objectives | |
| Definition of Key Terms | |
| Reward and Punishment in Relationship to Justice | |
| Elements of Justice | |
| Reward | |
| Theories of How to Reward | |
| John Rawls and His Theory of Justice | |
| Punishment | |
| Theories of Punishment | |
| Is a Synthesis Possible? | |
| Human Rights | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Exercises for Review | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Notes | |
| Research Navigator | |
| Setting Up a Moral System: Basic Assumptions and Basic Principles | |
| Objectives | |
| Conflicting General Moral Issues | |
| Basic Assumptions | |
| Basic Principles, Individual Freedom, and Their Justification | |
| Priority of the Basic Principles | |
| A General Way of Determining Priority | |
| Two Categories | |
| How the System of Humanitarian Ethics Works | |
| Conclusion | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Exercises for Review | |
| Discussion Questions | |
| Note | |
| Research Navigator | |
| The Taking of Human Life | |
| Objectives | |
| The Taking of Human Life | |
| Suicide | |
| Defense of the Innocent (the Self Included) | |
| Cases for Study and Discussion | |
| WarTerrorism | |
| Cases for Study and Discussion | |
| Capital Punishment | |
| Cases for Study and Discussion | |
| Chapter Summary | |
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