This fourth edition offers extensive updates, revisions, and three brand new chapters all designed to help students develop a sound and current basis for making ethical decisions in today's complex postmodern culture.
Moral Choices outlines the distinctive elements of Christian ethics while avoiding undue dogmatism. The book also introduces other ethical systems and their key proponents, including Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and Kant.
Now in its third edition, this foremost college ethics text helps students form a basis for practical, ethical decision making in contemporary culture.
In Plato's classic work The Republic , the myth of Gyges sets out the question , Why be moral ? Gyges was given the opportunity to live life as an invisible entity , able to do anything he wanted to do with no one ever dis- covering ...
This book chronicles Saint Alphonsus Liguori's contribution to the evolution of moral theology, a contribution that continues to influence contemporary Christian society more than 200 years after his death.