Doing Ethics in a Diverse World

Name: Doing Ethics in a Diverse World
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ISBN: 9780813343662

ISBN-10: 0813343666

ISBN-13: 9780813343662

Edition: 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Robert Traer, Harlan Stelmach

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While challenging moral relativism, Doing Ethics in a Diverse World uses a pluralist approach that draws on religious as well as secular positions and on Eastern as well as Western traditions. The book's approach reasons by analogy from the rule of law, including international human rights law, as a means to construct ethical presumptions about duty, character, relationships, and rights. These presumptions are weighed against the predicted consequences of acting on them, which either confirm the presumptions or support alternative actions. Employing a "Worksheet for Doing Ethics" as a guiding framework, this approach is then applied to issues of public morality, health care, economic…

Book details

List price: $56.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/31/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Learning from Experience



Our Challenge: Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic Society



Reasoning Together: Making Sense of Our Experience



Rule of Law: The Ethics of Justice



Creating an Ethical Presumption



Duty: Doing What Is Right



Character: Being a Good Person



Relationships: Caring and Letting Go



Human Rights: Autonomy and Human Dignity



Overcoming an Ethical Presumption



Possible Consequences: Utilitarian and Cost-Benefit Arguments


Worksheet for Doing Ethics



Making Decisions: HIV/AIDS



Applying the Approach



Public Morality: Seeking the Common Good



Health Care: Life and Death



Sex: Consent Plus What?



War Against Terrorism: Justice and Freedom



Economic Justice: Fair and Caring?



Our Natural World: Living Ecologically


Notes


Bibliography


Index