As a broad critique and invitation to reframe the study of ethics, Problem-Based Ethics welcomes scholars and students across disciplines to engage with ethics as a way to explore pervasive questions of our society and human existence.
Stepping back from the intricacies of theory and from heated political debates, Samuel Kahn's synthesis of the study of ethics asks readers to consider even the most contentious of topics like abortion, capital punishment, and euthanasia from their most basic questions. This approach reveals opportunities for more nuanced and evolving ethical positions. It also promotes a culture of civility too often destroyed in politicized debates in scholarly and popular forums.
The book covers standard issues in metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics, such as the objectivism/subjectivism debate, the consequentialism/deontology/virtue ethics/ethics of care debate, and the abortion debate. It also introduces more advanced issues such as distributive justice and environmental ethics, as well as less standard questions often of interest to laypeople and students, such as whether crime can be eliminated.
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Ethics & Moral PhilosophyTable of contents
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Subjectivism and Objectivism
- Chapter 2: Why Be Moral?
- Chapter 3: Egoism
- Chapter 4: The Ethics of Disagreement
- Chapter 5: Who Should Rule?
- Chapter 6: Rights
- Chapter 7: Distributive Justice
- Chapter 8: The Meaning of Life
- Chapter 9: The Elimination of Crime
- Chapter 10: Criminal Punishment
- Chapter 11: Normative Ethics
- Chapter 12: Loyalty
- Chapter 13: The Limits of Consent
- Chapter 14: Abortion
- Chapter 15: Capital Punishment
- Chapter 16: Euthanasia
- Chapter 17: Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports
- Chapter 18: Affirmative Action
- Chapter 19: Climate Change
- Chapter 20: Black Reparations
- Chapter 21: Sex and Gender
- Chapter 22: Vegetarianism
- Brief Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index
- About the Author
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