Ethics and Reality: Collected Essays - Hardcover

"The punchy and polemical pieces in this collection will entertain as well as instruct". Nicholas Denyer, Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, UK "Jenny Teichman's essays contain some of her witty and trenchant pieces and will be relished by connoisseurs". Jane Heal, Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, UK "Jenny Teichman is a clear-eyed  philosophical polemicist who elegantly deconstructs many fashionable shibboleths, from euthanasia, abortion and Œregenerative¹ cloning to free speech, moral relativism  --- and deconstruction itself." Peter Coleman, writer and editor. Ethics and Reality presents a new collection of Jenny Teichman's most important essays across a wide spectrum of ethical issues. Teichman explores a range of human problems including: war and peace, tyranny and terrorism, sex and gender and life and death. Focusing particularly on philosophical scepticism and reality, Teichman argues that if scepticism is irrefutable then ethical reasoning has no connection with reality and what look like genuine human dilemmas must be purely imaginary. The essays in the first part of this book are intended to show that scepticism can be rebutted; those in the second and third sections exemplify the applicaion of moral reasoning to inescapable quandaries.

A collection of essays by Jenny Teichman, published between 1965 and 2001, which cover the topic of scepticism. Many have been revised. If scepticism is irrefutable, then ethical reasoning has no connection with reality, and what look like genuine human dilemas must be purely imaginary. The essays in the first part of the book are intended to show that scepticism can be rebutted, while the essays in parts two and three are meant to exemplify the application of moral reasoning to inescapable quandaries.