Practical Ethics: Introduction, Methods and Cases; Colour Edition
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798685813770
- Series
- Practical Ethics
- Pages
- 226
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-09-13
- Author
- James G Lovejoy
Description
Cars which poison the environment and kill their drivers, energy markets in crisis, medical staff overwhelmed by paparazzi, tropical islands stripped of life by impoverished inhabitants, art swindlers escaping with millions, exploding pesticide factories, university places for sale, stressed food supplies and unjust social systems inherited from centuries past: how can we manage to think rationally about these things? And how can we sort out good from evil so that we can be sure that our own response to these unfortunate legacies is to leave the world in a better state than we found it? Practical Ethics: Introduction, Methods and Cases is a short coursebook for non-philosophy university students encountering ethics for the first time in stand-alone classes. The book covers topics such as we why need ethics, why there are bad people, the building blocks of ethical argument, a step-by-step guide to constructing and analysing basic ethical arguments, a chapter on more advanced types of ethical argument and a chapter on whether there are ethical principles which everyone can agree on. The book includes over 50 short cases, numerous and varied exercises for classes, vocabulary lists for each chapter, chapter summaries and visual chapter outlines. Case material and examples are drawn from literature, history, law, business and from contemporary ethical debate. There is a particular focus on issues from environmental ethics and sustainability.
