Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues, Concise Edition - Softcover

MacKinnon, Barbara (University Of San Francisco); Fiala, Andrew (Fresno State University)

 
9781305077508: Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues, Concise Edition
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1305077504 ISBN 13: 9781305077508
Verlag: Cengage Learning, Inc, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

ETHICS: THEORY AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, 8E CONCISE presents the major areas of ethical theory through an engaging collection of contemporary moral debates. First, readers are introduced to such ethical subjects as religion and global ethics, utilitarianism and deontology, natural law ethics, virtue ethics, non-Western paradigms, feminist ethics, and care ethics. Then, these and other ethical concepts provide the framework for in-depth discussions on moral dilemmas such as euthanasia, sexual morality, economic justice, animal ethics, war, violence, and globalization. Plus, this edition brings the debate up-to-date with detailed discussions of timely moral topics such as same-sex marriage, structural racism, factory farming, pacifism, and global distributive justice.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Barbara MacKinnon is a professor emerita of philosophy at the University of San Francisco. During her 30 years of teaching, her instruction and writing focused primarily on the history of ethics and contemporary ethical issues. She enjoys reading widely, playing the piano, and traveling.

Andrew Fiala is a professor of philosophy at Fresno State University and the director of the university's Ethics Center. He is co-author of the textbook ETHICS: THEORY AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, 10th EDITION (Cengage), as well as a number of books and articles. His scholarly writing focuses on war and peace, politics, religion and ethics. He also is a columnist for the Fresno Bee.

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Verlag
Cengage Learning, Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1305077504
ISBN 13 
9781305077508
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
3
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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