Living Ethics - Softcover

Minch, Michael; Weigel, Christine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1111186510 ISBN 13: 9781111186517

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2011

Synopsis

Minch and Weigel's unique LIVING ETHICS casts a wide net, including traditional works of philosophy along with a diverse collection of voices from literature, science, popular music, and continental philosophy. Each chapter focuses on action, addressing an issue in the range of basic human activities like flourishing, believing, caring, consuming and nine other topics. The text approaches the study of ethics as a set of personal and provocative questions that have ethical significance for students' lives. This wide-ranging anthology, distinguished by its interdisciplinary selections, provides a comprehensive approach without separating theory from applied ethics. The book's breadth of readings integrates feminist and multicultural viewpoints for a broader range of perspectives and genres than any other text in this field. By highlighting contemporary issues and multiple disciplines, LIVING ETHICS will engage readers with little or no experience in philosophy.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Minch earned his Ph.D. from the University of Utah. He is chair of the Philosophy and Humanities Department at Utah Valley University and director of Peace and Justice Studies. He is the author of The Democratic Theory of Michael Oakeshott.

Christine Weigel earned her Ph.D from Temple University. She is chair of the philosophy department at Utah Valley State College.

Review:

"Living Ethics takes a diffuse approach to the study of ethics, drawing on a diverse set of readings to prompt students into reflecting on the role that ethics plays in their lives." -- Matt Stichter, Washington State University

"A unique, but excellent wide-ranging introduction to ethics that combines theory and application." -- Jeanine Weekes Schroer, Arkansas State University

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1111186510
• ISBN 13: 9781111186517
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 608