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Overview"Basic Ethics presents for a wide range of students and other interested readers the questions raised in thinking about ethical problems, the answers offered by moral philosophy, and the means to better integrate into both the reader’s world and personal life. It takes up what the author calls a ""worldview theory,"" which shows readers how to begin with the values and understanding of the world that they already possess in order to transition from there to new levels of increasing ethical awareness. Updates to the third edition include the more thorough integration of feminist ethics into the principal theoretical traditions, a new chapter on the ethical responsibility to be well informed of current events, expanded coverage of human rights, and additional opportunities on how to use ethical reasoning in thinking about one’s own life and about public policy. Key Features: Links personal values to a philosophical treatment of the major ethical theories Presents ethics in the context of social/political issues that face our nation and the world Challenges the student to react to the presented material through critical exercises that may be used as weekly assignments and can form the basis of class discussion and evaluation. Engages the student to think about underlying issues first (in the basic questions) before presenting the most popular solutions (in the basic answers) Invites the reader to make up her own mind on how to formulate an ethical theory that will help her in her own life Offers a 16-chapter format to fit into most college-semester calendars Presents an overall structure that establishes foundational problems in ethical theory in the first section of the book that are variously addressed by the different ethical theories in the second section of the book Highlights key terms to help the reader grapple with issues raised (which are reviewed and defined in a final Glossary) Includes a final chapter designed to help students comprehend the book in its entirety. Updates to the Third Edition: Highlights new research on human rights and their relevance to ethical thinking and contemporary moral issues Integrates feminist ethics into the principal theoretical traditions: virtue ethics, ethical intuitionism, and some versions of deontology Provides new coverage of ""fake news"" and the moral responsibility to be well and accurately informed of current events Expands opportunities to use ethical reasoning in thinking about one’s own life and about public policy." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael BoylanPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: 3rd edition Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9780367638740ISBN 10: 0367638746 Pages: 246 Publication Date: 30 December 2020 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Living in a World of Values 2. Personal Worldview and Community Worldview 3. The Ethical Duty to be Knowledgeable about Your World 4. Relativism 5. Egoism 6. Are People Good or Bad? 7. Morality and Religion 8. Feminist Ethics 9. It’s All about Your Intuition: Ethical Intuitionism 10. It’s All about Your Attitude: Ethical Non-Cognitivism 11. It’s All about Freely Made Agreements: Ethical Contractarianism 12. It’s all About Your Character: Virtue Ethics 13. It’s all About the Team: Utilitarianism 14. It’s all About Your Duty: Deontology 15. Human Rights 16. Formulating Your Own AnswersReviewsPraise for previous editions: Basic Ethics is an unusually rewarding text. It takes the student through central topics of normative ethics and metaethics, but it does so in a critical and constructive way that sheds new light on their basic issues. Boylan also adds helpful sections on applied ethics, as well as challenging and illuminating discussion of the importance of personal worldviews-both for moral philosophy and for human life as a whole. The book is written in a style that is at once engaging and rigorous. Alan Gewirth, University of Chicago I really like the underlying theme of a worldview throughout the book. The opportunity for students to reflect on values, where they stem from, and what is right and wrong and why is something everyone should explore. Jeff Anstine, North Central College, Naperville, IL Basic Ethics nicely combines a survey of the main contending ethical theories with a reasonable procedure for enabling students to select among these. It should make an excellent text! James Sterba, University of Notre Dame Author InformationMichael Boylan is Professor of Philosophy at Marymount University. He is the author of 37 books including: A Just Society (2004); Morality and Global Justice (2010); Natural Human Rights: A Theory (2014); Fictive Narrative Philosophy: How Fiction Can Act As Philosophy (2019); and The De Anima Novels and The Arche Novels (ten philosophical novels published between 2007 and 2020). He has been an invited speaker at universities in 15 countries on 5 continents and has served on national governmental policy committees. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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