Exploring Ethics: An Introductory Anthology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195342003 ISBN 13: 9780195342000

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Exploring Ethics: An Introductory Anthology is a remarkably accessible, concise, and engaging introduction to moral philosophy. Steven M. Cahn brings together a rich, balanced, and wide-ranging collection of forty classic and contemporary readings. Most importantly, he has carefully edited the articles so that they will be exceptionally clear and understandable to undergraduate students. The selections are organized into three parts, providing instructors with flexibility in designing and teaching a variety of ethics courses. The first part, Challenges to Morality, considers the overly simple assumptions that beginning students may bring to moral issues. The second part, Moral Theories, provides selections from the most influential ethical theories of the past along with commentary by contemporary thinkers. The third part, Moral Problems, offers opposing perspectives on nine controversial issues: abortion, euthanasia, world hunger, terrorism, pornography, affirmative action, animal rights, the environment, and capital punishment.
Exploring Ethics features selections from Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, Thomas Nagel, James Rachels, John Rawls, Tom Regan, Peter Singer, Susan Wolf, and many others. Each reading is preceded by a detailed introduction and followed by study questions that encourage students to think philosophically. Ideal for courses in introduction to ethics or contemporary moral problems, this unique anthology can be used independently or as a companion to a single-authored text. An Instructor's Manual and Companion Website accompany the text. The instructor's materials include a testbank, key terms with definitions, reading summaries, and PowerPoint lectures.

About this title

About the Author

Steven Cahn is a Professor of Philosophy at The City University of New York Graduate Center.

Review

"An excellent and rich overview of major theories and debates in metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics. The table of contents includes several of the most important figures in the history of western moral philosophy (Kant, Mill, Aristotle), but also combines those readings with contemporary secondary literature, making the classics more accessible."--Kristen Intemann, Montana State University

"The quality of the selections in this anthology is uniformly very high and well suited for classroom discussion."--Heimir Geirsson, Iowa State University

"These readings provide an excellent introduction to the core issues in Western ethical thought."--Manyul Im, California State University, Los Angeles

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0195342003
• ISBN 13: 9780195342000
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Cahn Steven M.