Ethics and Reality: Collected Essays

By Jenny Teichman

Book Overview

"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 'regenerative 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754605345
• ISBN13: 9780754605348
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.3"