Ethics
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Ethics

A Beginner's Guide

Peter Cave

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eBook - ePub

Ethics

A Beginner's Guide

Peter Cave

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Should we aim to maximize happiness? Are there characteristics that we should foster within ourselves? Why is it important to act morally? From the ancient Greeks to Sartre, from utilitarianism to the categorical imperative, Ethics: A Beginner's Guide presents this vital topic of philosophy via its most influential thinkers and theories.With characteristic wit, philosopher Peter Cave steers us around well known and not-so-well known ethical traps – in the private sphere, in community life, and in relation to God and religion.As well as a guide to ongoing theoretical debates, Cave shows how the discipline helps us to confront topical controversies including those of the environment, abortion, and animal welfare. For anyone who questions how we ought to live, there is no better introduction to ethics and how it relates to twenty-first-century society.

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Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Year
2015
ISBN
9781780745770
Topic
Philosophie
Subtopic
Ethik & Moralphilosophie

Table of contents

  1. Prologue: the moral medley
  2. 1 • How ought we to live?
  3. 2 • Utilitarianism: maximizing happiness
  4. 3 • Deontology: ‘I must not tell a lie’
  5. 4 • Virtue ethics: a flourishing life
  6. 5 • God: dead or alive?
  7. 6 • Existentialism: freedom and responsibility
  8. 7 • Morality: just an illusion?
  9. 8 • Applying ethics: life and death dilemmas
  10. 9 • No man is an island: from community to ecology
  11. 10 • ‘For every foot, its own shoe’