How Should We Live?: An Introduction to Ethics

How Should We Live?: An Introduction to Ethics
Author: Louis P. Pojman
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2012-12-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780534556570

Louis Pojman's new HOW SHOULD WE LIVE? is a concise and engaging text that offers a provocative discussion of the central questions and theories in moral philosophy. Crafted by one of contemporary philosophy's most gifted teachers, it begins with a poignant meditation on Golding's LORD OF THE FLIES, a starting point for an eye-opening examination of central metaethical concepts such as relativism, objectivism, egoism, and whether or not religion is a necessity for morality. From there Pojman presents with even-handed consideration and in a readily accessible style the three most seminal ethical theories: utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue-based ethics. The book's discussion culminates with a very timely exploration of the grounds for human rights in today's increasingly global society. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

An Introduction to Ethics

An Introduction to Ethics
Author: John Deigh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2010-03-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 052177246X

This book examines the central questions of ethics through a study of the great ethical works of Western philosophy.

How Are We to Live?

How Are We to Live?
Author: Peter Singer
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2010-03-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1615920919

Many people have an uneasy feeling that they may be missing out on something basic that would give their lives a significance it currently lacks. But how should we live? What is there to stop us behaving selfishly? In this account, which makes reference to a wide variety of sources and everyday issues, Peter Singer suggests that the conventional pursuit of self-interest is individually and collectively self-defeating. Taking into consideration the beliefs of Jesus, Kant, Rousseau, and Adam Smith amongst others, he looks at a number of different cultures, including America, Japan, and the Aborigines to assess whether or not selfishness is in our genes and how we may find greater satisfaction in an ethical lifestyle.

Living Ethics

Living Ethics
Author: Michael J. Minch
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Conduct of life
ISBN: 9781111186517

Minch and Weigel's unique LIVING ETHICS casts a wide net, including traditional works of philosophy along with a diverse collection of voices from literature, science, popular music, and continental philosophy. Each chapter focuses on action, addressing an issue in the range of basic human activities like flourishing, believing, caring, consuming and nine other topics. The text approaches the study of ethics as a set of personal and provocative questions that have ethical significance for students' lives. This wide-ranging anthology, distinguished by its interdisciplinary selections, provides a comprehensive approach without separating theory from applied ethics. The book's breadth of readings integrates feminist and multicultural viewpoints for a broader range of perspectives and genres than any other text in this field. By highlighting contemporary issues and multiple disciplines, LIVING ETHICS will engage readers with little or no experience in philosophy.

Morality and the Good Life

Morality and the Good Life
Author: Robert C. Solomon
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2004
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780072831924

The premise of this ethical theory anthology is that the study of ethics represents, above all else, participation in the thinking of a long tradition of philosophers. Organized historically by philosopher, the book provides an introductory chapter on ethical concepts and helpful commentary and study questions throughout the reading selections. Morality and the Good Life is substantial enough for a full course in ethics, but it is concise enough to allow the instructor time to include other approaches in addition to the classic texts and materials presented in this volume.

Ethics for A-Level

Ethics for A-Level
Author: Mark Dimmock
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2017-07-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1783743913

What does pleasure have to do with morality? What role, if any, should intuition have in the formation of moral theory? If something is ‘simulated’, can it be immoral? This accessible and wide-ranging textbook explores these questions and many more. Key ideas in the fields of normative ethics, metaethics and applied ethics are explained rigorously and systematically, with a vivid writing style that enlivens the topics with energy and wit. Individual theories are discussed in detail in the first part of the book, before these positions are applied to a wide range of contemporary situations including business ethics, sexual ethics, and the acceptability of eating animals. A wealth of real-life examples, set out with depth and care, illuminate the complexities of different ethical approaches while conveying their modern-day relevance. This concise and highly engaging resource is tailored to the Ethics components of AQA Philosophy and OCR Religious Studies, with a clear and practical layout that includes end-of-chapter summaries, key terms, and common mistakes to avoid. It should also be of practical use for those teaching Philosophy as part of the International Baccalaureate. Ethics for A-Level is of particular value to students and teachers, but Fisher and Dimmock’s precise and scholarly approach will appeal to anyone seeking a rigorous and lively introduction to the challenging subject of ethics. Tailored to the Ethics components of AQA Philosophy and OCR Religious Studies.

Being Good

Being Good
Author: Simon Blackburn
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2002-03-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191647314

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.

Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Author: Bernard Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1136807241

With a new foreword by Jonathan Lear 'Remarkably lively and enjoyable...It is a very rich book, containing excellent descriptions of a variety of moral theories, and innumerable and often witty observations on topics encountered on the way.' - Times Literary Supplement Bernard Williams was one of the greatest philosophers of his generation. Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is not only widely acknowledged to be his most important book, but also hailed a contemporary classic of moral philosophy. Drawing on the ideas of the Greek philosophers, Williams reorients ethics away from a preoccupation with universal moral theories towards ‘truth, truthfulness and the meaning of an individual life’. He explores and reflects upon the most difficult problems in contemporary philosophy and identifies new ideas about central issues such as relativism, objectivity and the possibility of ethical knowledge. This edition also includes a commentary on the text by A.W.Moore. At the time of his death in 2003, Bernard Williams was hailed by the Times as 'the outstanding moral philosopher of his age.' He taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Berkeley and Oxford and is the author of many influential books, including Morality; Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry (available from Routledge) and Truth and Truthfulness.

Morality and the Good Life

Morality and the Good Life
Author: Robert C. Solomon
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Total Pages: 508
Release: 1999
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780072899115

This is an anthology of substantive selections from key texts in the history of moral philosophy or ethical theory. It may be used in an ethics course or in the ethics segment of an introduction to philosophy course. Student apparatus includes a concise introductory chapter, "What Is Ethics?" surveying major concepts, an end of book glossary of terms, a concise introduction to each philosopher, a helpful running commentary within each selection, and thought-provoking discussion questions at the end of each chapter. The revision features a new chapter 11 on Rawls, A Theory of Justice. The interspersed, extensive commentary and guide to the text and readings has been expanded throughout.

Introduction to Ethics

Introduction to Ethics
Author: Andrew J. Dell'Olio
Publisher: Elements of Philosophy
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Ethics
ISBN: 9780742563568

"This is a wonderful collection of essays with splendid introductions. Andrew Dell'Olio and Caroline Simon have provided a book that begs to be taught and invites reflection not just about moral theory but about our moral lives."---Allen Verhey, Duke Divinity School --