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Author : Robin Attfield
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441182050
A major new introduction to ethics, designed specifically to meet the needs of undergraduate students.
Author : Christina Hendricks,George Matthews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 1989014186
We often make judgments about good and bad, right and wrong. Philosophical ethics is the critical examination of these and other concepts central to how we evaluate our own and each others' behavior and choices. This text examines some of the main threads of discussion on these topics that have developed over the last couple of millenia, mostly within the Western cultural tradition.The book is designed to be used alone or alongside a reader of historical and contemporary original sources, and is freely available in web and digital formats at https: //press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-ethics/. If you are adopting or adapting this book for a course, please let us know on our adoption form for the Introduction to Philosophy open textbook series: https: //docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwf2E7bRGvWefjhNZ07kgpgnNFxVxxp-iidPE5gfDBQNGBGg/viewform?usp=sf_link. Cover art by Heather Salazar; cover design by Jonathan Lashley. One of nine books in the Introduction to Philosophy open textbook serie
Author : Kimberly Hutchings
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509513987
This revised edition of Kimberly Hutchings’s best-selling textbook provides an accessible introduction to the field of Global Ethics for students of politics, international relations and globalization. It offers an overview and assessment of key perspectives in Global Ethics and their implications for substantive moral issues in global politics. These include the morality of state and non-state violence, the obligations of rich to poor in a globalizing world, and the scope and nature of international human rights. The second edition contains expanded coverage of pressing contemporary issues relating to migration, changes in the technologies of war, and the global environment. Hutchings’s excellent book helps non-specialist students to understand the assumptions underpinning different moral traditions, and enables them to formulate their own views on how to approach moral judgement and prescription – essential in a world which, though it is shared by all, possesses massive cultural differences and inequalities of power.
Author : Heather Widdows
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317491743
Global ethics addresses some of the most pressing ethical concerns today, including rogue states, torture, scarce resources, poverty, migration, consumption, global trade, medical tourism, and humanitarian intervention. It is both topical and important. How we resolve (or fail to resolve) the dilemmas of global ethics shapes how we understand ourselves, our relationships with each other and the social and political frameworks of governance now and into the future. This is seen most clearly in the case of climate change, where our actions now determine the environment our grandchildren will inherit, but it is also the case in other areas as our decisions about what it is permissible for humans beings to do to each other determines the type of beings we are. This book, suitable for course use, introduces students to the theory and practice of global ethics, ranging over issues in global governance and citizenship, poverty and development, war and terrorism, bioethics, environmental and climate ethics and gender justice.
Author : Wilfrid J. Waluchow
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781460400845
The Dimensions of Ethics offers a concise but wide-ranging introduction to moral philosophy. In clear and engaging fashion, the author first examines the scope of ethical theory, and explores central metaethical questions such as the issue of relativism, and the relationship between morality and religion. He then turns to an exploration of five theoretical approaches (utilitarianism, the deontological approach of Kant, the ethical pluralism of Ross, virtue ethics, and feminist ethics), in each case providing a consideration of various objections that have been advanced as well as a sympathetic exposition of the core principles of each approach. Throughout he uses a wide range of examples, and integrates references to issues in applied ethics with his discussions of ethical theory.
Author : Janie B. Butts,Karen L. Rich
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781284170221
The fifth edition of Nursing Ethics has been revised to reflect the most current issues in healthcare ethics including new cases, laws, and policies. The text continues to be divided into three sections: Foundational Theories, Concepts and Professional Issues; Moving Into Ethics Across the Lifespan; and Ethics Related to Special Issues focused on specific populations and nursing roles.
Author : John Deigh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521772464
This book examines the central questions of ethics through a study of the great ethical works of Western philosophy.
Author : John Henry Muirhead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UCAL:$B285799
Author : Mark van Roojen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317448693
Metaethics: A Contemporary Introduction provides a solid foundation in metaethics for advanced undergraduates by introducing a series of puzzles that most metaethical theories address. These puzzles involve moral disagreement, reference, moral epistemology, metaphysics, and moral psychology. From there, author Mark van Roojen discusses the many positions in metaethics that people will take in reaction to these puzzles. Van Roojen asks several essential questions of his readers, namely: What is metaethics? Why study it? How does one discuss metaethics, given its inherently controversial nature? Each chapter closes with questions, both for reading comprehension and further discussion, and annotated suggestions for further reading.
Author : Andrew Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317491811
Do moral facts exist? What would they be like if they did? What does it mean to say that a moral claim is true? What is the link between moral judgement and motivation? Can we know whether something is right and wrong? Is morality a fiction? Metaethics: An Introduction presents a very clear and engaging survey of the key concepts and positions in what has become one of the most exciting and influential fields of philosophy. Free from technicality and jargon, the book covers the main ideas that have shaped metaethics from the work of G. E. Moore to the latest thinking. Written specifically for beginning students, the book assumes no prior philosophical knowledge. The book highlights ways to avoid common errors, offers hints and tips on learning the subject, includes a glossary of core terms, and provides guidance for further study.
Author : Angus Taylor
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1551115697
"A previous edition of this book appeared under the title Magpies, Monkeys, and Morals. The new edition has been updated throughout. Substantial new material has been added to the text, including discussions of virtue ethics and Rawlsian contractarianism. The bibliography has been significantly enlarged and now includes more than five hundred entries."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Stephen J. Freeman
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000046153050
Designed to assist students in developing an informed ethical conscience, this text introduces them to ethical theory and gives them practice in responding to real-life ethical issues that are often messy, complex, multifaceted. As they work through the ethical dilemmas in the book, students are encouraged to explore their own moral and ethical value systems as well as the codes they work from and to begin to form an informed ethical conscience for making sound moral and ethical judgments.
Author : Simon Blackburn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191647314
It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, or sticking to duty, or insisting on our rights, we can be confused, or be paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless. Many are afraid that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic, or competitive and aggressive. Simon Blackburn, author of the best-selling Think, structures this short introduction around these and other threats to ethics. Confronting seven different objections to our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures, he charts a course through the philosophical quicksands that often engulf us. Then, turning to problems of life and death, he shows how we should think about the meaning of life, and how we should mistrust the sound-bite sized absolutes that often dominate moral debates. Finally he offers a critical tour of the ways the philosophical tradition has tried to provide foundations for ethics, from Plato and Aristotle through to contemporary debates.
Author : Daniel R. DeNicola
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781770487048
Moral Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction is a compact yet comprehensive book offering an explication and critique of the major theories that have shaped philosophical ethics. Engaging with both historical and contemporary figures, this book explores the scope, limits, and requirements of morality. DeNicola traces our various attempts to ground morality: in nature, in religion, in culture, in social contracts, and in aspects of the human person such as reason, emotions, caring, and intuition.
Author : Andrew Dell'Olio,Caroline J. Simon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781461638155
As the perfect companion to introduction to ethics courses, Dell'Olio and Simon's reader includes the most influential ethical theories without overwhelming the beginning student. It contains a variety of readings encompassing contemporary and classic philosophers, male and female perspectives of both Western and non-Western ethical traditions, and readings in both theoretical and applied ethics. Introduction to Ethics comprises of thirty-seven essays divided into nine chapters; the first chapter introduces the nature of moral theory with a brief account of the different moral theories that will follow in the text. Chapters 2 through 8 are each devoted to a particular moral theory with readings that represent the position and those who challenge it, accompanied by an application of the theory to a particular moral problem. Finally, chapter 9 offers readings in practical guidance on 'living a good life.' Each chapter has a brief introduction that provides an overview of the selection with pointers on what to note as the selection is read and concludes with a series of thought-provoking study questions and a selection for further reading making it easier for students to understand and appreciate their reading.