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Cars which poison the environment and kill their drivers, medical staff overwhelmed by paparazzi, tropical islands stripped of resources by impoverished inhabitants, art swindlers escaping with millions, exploding pesticide factories and a wild-west media environment: how can we manage to think rationally about these things and sort out good from evil? Practical Ethics: Introduction, Methods and Cases is a short coursebook for non-philosophy university students encountering ethics for the first time in stand-alone classes. The book covers topics such as we why need ethics, why there are bad people, the building blocks of ethical argument, a step-by-step guide to constructing and analysing basic ethical arguments, a chapter on more advanced types of ethical argument and a chapter on whether there are ethical principles which everyone can agree on. The book includes 45 short cases, numerous and varied exercises for classes, vocabulary lists for each chapter, chapter summaries and visual chapter outlines. Case material and examples are drawn from literature, history, law, business but especially from contemporary ethical debate: there is a particular focus on issues from environmental ethics and sustainability. Overall there is enough material for an introductory class and an optional follow-up class.

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