Philosophical Ethics
This book is an introduction to philosophical ethics intended for use in introductory college or high school level courses. It has grown out of lecture notes I shared with the first students who took my online Ethics course at the Pennsylvania College of Technology almost 20 years ago. Since then it...
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George W. Matthews
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- I Some Preliminaries
- 1 The Examined Life
- 2 A Little Bit of Logic
- 3 Fallacies and Biases
- II Ethics Culture and Religion
- 4 Relativism
- 5 Religion and Ethics
- III Reconstructing Norms
- 6 Egoism
- 7 Social Contract Theory
- 8 Utilitarianism
- 9 Kant and the ethics of duty
- IV Applied Ethics
- 10 Theory in Practice
- 11 Euthanasia
- 12 Liberty and its Limits
- 13 Crime and Punishment
- 14 Animals and Ethics
- 15 Ethics and the Environment