On Ethics and Living Well - Softcover

Solomon, Robert C.

9780495002956: On Ethics and Living Well

Softcover

ISBN 10: 049500295X ISBN 13: 9780495002956

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2005

Asserting ethics' place as a guidepost on the path to the good life, ON ETHICS AND LIVING WELL offers a brief introduction to ethics that you can understand and apply to your daily life. And because this ethics textbook is focused on patterns of controversy and concern instead of details of various ethical theories, you'll learn how to live the good life well beyond the edges of the classroom.

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About the Author:

Robert C. Solomon (1942-2007) was internationally renowned as a teacher and lecturer in philosophy. He was Quincy Lee Centennial Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and over the course of his career taught at numerous institutions, including Princeton University, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Auckland, and the University of California, in addition to the University of Texas. He authored more than 40 books, including Introducing Philosophy, A Short History of Philosophy (with Kathleen Higgins), The Passions, In the Spirit of Hegel, About Love, Above the Bottom Line, Fourth Edition (with Clancy Martin), Ethics and Excellence, The Joy of Philosophy, and True to Our Feelings, and he was co-editor of Twenty Questions, Fifth Edition (with Lee Bowie and Meredith Michaels), and Since Socrates (with Clancy Martin).

Review:

Preface. 1. Introduction to Ethics. 2. Doing the Right Thing: The Nature and Justification of Morality. 3. Living Well: The Virtues and the Good Life.

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