Ethics

Name: Ethics
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ISBN: 9780137542925

ISBN-10: 0137542925

ISBN-13: 9780137542925

Edition: 6th 1998

Authors: Jacques Thiroux

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This text offers a flexible organisation & a variety of theories & issues. It offers guidelines on how to establish a personal ethical theory & how to apply it - as well as traditional ethical theories - to a range of specific moral issues.

Book details

List price: $45.00
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 7/7/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 540
Size: 7.60" wide x 9.25" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



Preface



What Is Morality?



Consequentialist (Teleological) Theories of Morality



Nonconsequentialist (Deontological) Theories of Morality and Virtue Ethics



Absolutism versus Relativism



Freedom versus Determinism



Reward and Punishment



Setting Up a Moral System: Basic Assumptions and Basic Principles



The Taking of Human Life



Allowing Someone to Die, Mercy Death, and Mercy Killing



Abortion



Lying, Cheating, Breaking Promises, and Stealing



Morality, Marriage, and Human Sexuality



Bioethics - Ethical Issues in Medicine



Business Ethics



Environmental Ethics


Appendixes



Applying Humanitarian Ethics to the Moral Problems of the Taking of Human Life



Applying Humanitarian Ethics to the Moral Problems of Allowing Someone to Die, Mercy Death, and Mercy Killing



Applying Humanitarian Ethics to the Moral Problems of Abortion



Applying Humanitarian Ethics to the Moral Problems of Lying, Cheating, Breaking Promises, and Stealing



Applying Humanitarian Ethics to the Moral Problems of Human Sexuality



Applying Humanitarian Ethics to Moral Problems in Medicine (Bioethics)



Applying Humanitarian Ethics to Moral Problems in Business (Business Ethics)



Applying Humanitarian Ethics to Environmental Ethics


Glossary


Index