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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Hoofdauteur: Matthews, George W. (Auteur)
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: [Place of publication not identified] George W. Matthews [2020]
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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