Three Challenges to Ethics Environmentalism, Feminism, and Multiculturalism

Name: Three Challenges to Ethics Environmentalism, Feminism, and Multiculturalism
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ISBN: 9780195124767

ISBN-10: 0195124766

ISBN-13: 9780195124767

Edition: 2001

Authors: James P. Sterba

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This book's author argues that traditional ethics has yet to face up to three important challenges that come from environmentalism, feminism, and multiculturalism. This failure to face up to these challenges has meant that no matter how successful traditional ethics has been at dealing with the problems it recognizes, it has failed to deal with the possibility that its solutions to these problems are biased in favour of humans, biased in favour of men, and biased in favour of Western culture. Failure to deal with these challenges has clearly put the justification of traditional ethics into question. Thus those concerned with the justification of traditional ethics have no alternative but to…

Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/31/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 7.91" wide x 5.20" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, James P. Sterba has gone on to publish (either as author or editor) many notable books, textbooks, and scholarly articles in the fields of ethics and social and political philosophy. He currently teaches at the University of Notre Dame.



Preface



Introduction


Traditional Ethics



Environmentalism


The Human Bias in Traditional Ethics and How to Correct It



Feminism


The Masculine Bias in Traditional Ethics and How to Correct it



Multiculturalism


The Western Bias in Traditional Ethics and How to Correct It



Conclusion


A Peacemaking Way of Doing Philosophy


Notes


Bibliography


Index