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Ethics
Theory and Contemporary Issues, Concise Edition
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Ethics
Theory and Contemporary Issues, Concise Edition
About this book
ETHICS: THEORY AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, 8E CONCISE teaches the major ethical theories through the context of moral debates. First, you'll learn about ethical perspectives such as religion and global ethics, utilitarianism and deontology, natural law ethics, virtue ethics, non-Western paradigms, feminist ethics, and care ethics. Then, you'll use these ethical concepts in your discussion of moral dilemmas such as euthanasia, sexual morality, economic justice, animal ethics, war, violence, and globalization. Plus, this edition brings the debate up-to-date with detailed discussions of timely moral topics such as same-sex marriage, structural racism, factory farming, pacifism, and global distributive justice.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Ch 1: Ethics and Ethical Reasoning
- Ch 2: Religion and Global Ethics
- Ch 3: Ethical Relativism
- Ch 4: Egoism, Altruism, and the Social Contract
- Ch 5: Utilitarianism and John Stuart Mill
- Ch 6: Deontological Ethics and Immanuel Kant
- Ch 7: Natural Law and Human Rights
- Ch 8: Virtue Ethics
- Ch 9: Feminist Thought and the Ethics of Care
- Ch 10: Euthanasia
- Ch 11: Abortion
- Ch 12: Sexual Morality
- Ch 13: Equality and Discrimination
- Ch 14: Economic Justice
- Ch 15: Punishment and the Death Penalty
- Ch 16: Environmental Ethics
- Ch 17: Animal Ethics
- Ch 18: Biotechnology and Bioengineering
- Ch 19: Violence and War
- Ch 20: Global Justice and Globalization
- Appendix: How to Write an Ethics Paper
- Glossary
- Index
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