Ethical Theory: Classical and Contemporary Readings - Softcover

Pojman, Louis P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 053457033X ISBN 13: 9780534570330

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

This is the most up-to-date and comprehensive reader in ethical theory on the market. The articles are arranged in a coherent framework, with the presentation of each problem progressing from the classical to the contemporary and usually treated in a dialectic (pro and con) format. It includes many readings on the cutting edge of ethics.

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About the Author:

Louis P. Pojman (1935-2005) was Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at the United States Military Academy and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary/Columbia University. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Copenhagen and a Rockefeller Fellow at Hamburg University. He received his D.Phil. in Philosophy from Oxford University in 1997.His first position was at the University of Notre Dame, after which he taught at the University of Texas at Dallas. Later, at the University of Mississippi, he served for three years as Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. In 1995, he became Professor of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He most recently was Visiting Professor at Brigham Young University in Utah and Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Oxford University. Pojman won several research and teaching awards, including the Burlington Northern Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarship (1988) and the Outstanding Scholar/Teacher in the Humanities at the University of Mississippi (1994). He wrote in the areas of philosophy of religion, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy and authored or edited more than 30 books and 100 articles. Pojman passed away in 2005.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 053457033X
• ISBN 13: 9780534570330
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 752