Basic Ethics
Autor Michael Boylanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 dec 2020
Key Features:
- Links personal values to a philosophical treatment of the major ethical theories
- Presents ethics in the context of social/political issues that face our nation and the world
- Challenges the student to react to the presented material through critical exercises that may be used as weekly assignments and can form the basis of class discussion and evaluation.
- Engages the student to think about underlying issues first (in the basic questions) before presenting the most popular solutions (in the basic answers)
- Invites the reader to make up her own mind on how to formulate an ethical theory that will help her in her own life
- Offers a 16-chapter format to fit into most college-semester calendars
- Presents an overall structure that establishes foundational problems in ethical theory in the first section of the book that are variously addressed by the different ethical theories in the second section of the book
- Highlights key terms to help the reader grapple with issues raised (which are reviewed and defined in a final Glossary)
- Includes a final chapter designed to help students comprehend the book in its entirety.
- Highlights new research on human rights and their relevance to ethical thinking and contemporary moral issues
- Integrates feminist ethics into the principal theoretical traditions: virtue ethics, ethical intuitionism, and some versions of deontology
- Provides new coverage of "fake news" and the moral responsibility to be well and accurately informed of current events
- Expands opportunities to use ethical reasoning in thinking about one’s own life and about public policy.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780367638740
ISBN-10: 0367638746
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 2 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Tables, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0367638746
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 2 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Tables, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
1. Living in a World of Values 2. Personal Worldview and Community Worldview 3. The Ethical Duty to be Knowledgeable about Your World 4. Relativism 5. Egoism 6. Are People Good or Bad? 7. Morality and Religion 8. Feminist Ethics 9. It’s All about Your Intuition: Ethical Intuitionism 10. It’s All about Your Attitude: Ethical Non-Cognitivism 11. It’s All about Freely Made Agreements: Ethical Contractarianism 12. It’s all About Your Character: Virtue Ethics 13. It’s all About the Team: Utilitarianism 14. It’s all About Your Duty: Deontology 15. Human Rights 16. Formulating Your Own Answers
Notă biografică
Michael Boylan is Professor of Philosophy at Marymount University. He is the author of 37 books including: A Just Society (2004); Morality and Global Justice (2010); Natural Human Rights: A Theory (2014); Fictive Narrative Philosophy: How Fiction Can Act As Philosophy (2019); and The De Anima Novels and The Arche Novels (ten philosophical novels published between 2007 and 2020). He has been an invited speaker at universities in 15 countries on 5 continents and has served on national governmental policy committees.
Recenzii
Praise for previous editions:
"Basic Ethics is an unusually rewarding text. It takes the student through central topics of normative ethics and metaethics, but it does so in a critical and constructive way that sheds new light on their basic issues. Boylan also adds helpful sections on applied ethics, as well as challenging and illuminating discussion of the importance of personal worldviews—both for moral philosophy and for human life as a whole. The book is written in a style that is at once engaging and rigorous."
Alan Gewirth, University of Chicago
"I really like the underlying theme of a worldview throughout the book. The opportunity for students to reflect on values, where they stem from, and what is right and wrong and why is something everyone should explore."
Jeff Anstine, North Central College, Naperville, IL
"Basic Ethics nicely combines a survey of the main contending ethical theories with a reasonable procedure for enabling students to select among these. It should make an excellent text!"
James Sterba, University of Notre Dame
"Basic Ethics is an unusually rewarding text. It takes the student through central topics of normative ethics and metaethics, but it does so in a critical and constructive way that sheds new light on their basic issues. Boylan also adds helpful sections on applied ethics, as well as challenging and illuminating discussion of the importance of personal worldviews—both for moral philosophy and for human life as a whole. The book is written in a style that is at once engaging and rigorous."
Alan Gewirth, University of Chicago
"I really like the underlying theme of a worldview throughout the book. The opportunity for students to reflect on values, where they stem from, and what is right and wrong and why is something everyone should explore."
Jeff Anstine, North Central College, Naperville, IL
"Basic Ethics nicely combines a survey of the main contending ethical theories with a reasonable procedure for enabling students to select among these. It should make an excellent text!"
James Sterba, University of Notre Dame
Descriere
Covers questions raised in thinking about ethical problems, answers offered by moral philosophy, and helps integrate both into student's world and personal life. The 3rd edition better integrates feminist ethics, expands coverage on human rights, and adds a new chapter on the ethics of awareness of current events.