Ethics: The Big Questions

Book Overview

As with the first edition, Utilitarian, Kantian, and Aristotelian viewpoints are all well represented here, and this second edition features updated sections throughout--including eighteen new readings--and an entirely new section on multiculturalism. Presents students with a unique focus on three main challenges to ethics: feminism, environmentalism, and multiculturalism Pedagogical focus on the 'big questions' motivates student interest Collects readings on all key traditional theoretical and practical questions in ethics

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405191287
• ISBN13: 9781405191289
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

For everyone to read unless you're a human bean

This is one of the best collections of various philosophical works in the ethical field of that subject and unless you are a delusional 13 year old boy who pretends to live in Tokyo, you will understand that when college professors choose this book to teach students in a class at UNCC called Ethical Theory, then you look like an idiot giving it a 1 star review. Reading these articles in their entirety is fine if you have that amount of time, but these excerpts are the best parts of the entire article anyway and the chapter introductions do a nice job of summarizing the articles.