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Social and Personal Ethics
ISBN: 9780495095002 | 0495095001
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 2/26/2007
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL ETHICS offers you a sound introduction to ethical theory and issues with via accessible readings on many of the most debated topics of our times-including drug use, hostage interrogation, war, abortion, and capital punishment, among others. Author William Shaw begins with a preliminary introduction to ethical theory that assumes no previous formal philosophy instruction and then moves on to explore a variety of real-world ethical issues. In all, the book is composed of 51 classic and contemporary articles (ten of which are n... MORE
| Preface | |
| Ethical Theory | |
| An Introduction to Ethics | |
| The Nature of Morality | |
| Normative Theories of Ethics | |
| Ethical Relativism | |
| James Rachels, "The Challenge of Cultural Relativism." | |
| Four Rival Ethical Perspectives | |
| Aristotle, "Happiness, Function, and Virtue." | |
| Immanuel Kant, "Good Will, Duty, and the Categor... MORE | |
| John Stuart Mill, "Utilitarianism." | |
| W. D. Ross, "What Makes Right Acts Right?" | |
| Issues in Applied Ethics | |
| Suicide and Euthanasia | |
| Richard B. Brandt, "The Mora | |
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