"A concise and accessible introduction to ethical theories, featuring a large variety of real-life case studies."--Back cover
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"A concise and accessible introduction to ethical theories, featuring a large variety of real-life case studies."--Back cover.
"A concise and accessible introduction to ethical theories, featuring a large variety of real-life case studies." --Back cover.
In this book of brief essays, Singer applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happi…
"When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing t…
"In Ethics in the Real World, Singer shows that he is also a master at dissecting important current events in a few hundred words. In this book of brief essays, he applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, eutha…
"What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their…
"In this provocative study, Bedau demonstrates the usefulness of "casuistry" or "the method of cases" in arriving at moral decisions. He examines well-known cases, including the aftermath of the sinking of the William Brown in 1841, that compel us to consider questions about who…
Homosexuality -- Abortion -- Women's status -- Capital punishment -- The earth.