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The Puzzle of Ethics Peter Vardy

The Puzzle of Ethics By Peter Vardy

The Puzzle of Ethics by Peter Vardy


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Summary

This accompanying volume to "The Puzzle of God" and "The Puzzle of Evil" provides an introduction to ethical issues and to the main areas of ethical concern today. It is divided into three sections: "Puzzling over ethics", "Philosophers and ethical theories" and "Issues and problems".

The Puzzle of Ethics Summary

The Puzzle of Ethics by Peter Vardy

This accompanying volume to "The Puzzle of God" and "The Puzzle of Evil" provides an introduction to ethical issues and to the main areas of ethical concern today. It is divided into three section: "Puzzling over ethics" which examines the philosophical problems to be tackled; "Philosophers and ethical theories", and "Issues and problems", among which are abortion, euthanasia, medical ethics, "-isms", just war, Third World debt and international trade, environmental ethics and human rights.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Theoretical ethics: truth in ethics; Plato and virtue as knowledge; Aristotle and virtue theory; Aquinas and natural law; Kant and the moral law; Bentham and Mill - utilitarianism; post-utilitarian perspectives - intuitionism and emotivism; MacIntyre - virtue theory revisited; Buddhist ethics; Christian approaches. Part 2 Applied ethics: situation ethics; justice and morality - Rawls and Nozick; abortion and personhood; euthanasia and medical ethics; just war; human rights; animal rights; environmental ethics; conclusion.

Additional information

GOR001455608
9780006277019
0006277012
The Puzzle of Ethics by Peter Vardy
Used - Very Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
1996-07-08
192
N/A
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