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How can we find true or reasonable moral principles to live our everyday lives by? Torbjörn Tännsjö presents 7 radically different moral theories - utilitarianism, egoism, deontological ethics, the ethics of rights, virtue ethics, feminist ethics, environmental or ecological ethics - each of which attempts to provide the ultimate answer to the question of what we ought to do and why. He carefully describes each theory, showing how it works in practice using the "trolley problem" thought experiments, critically assessing it and putting it into its historical perspective. This third edition contains a new section on population ethics in the chapter on utilitarianism, discusses the impact of recent findings in social psychology on virtue ethics and includes new, clearer applications of the trolley problem.
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Torbjörn Tännsjö is Kristian Claëson Professor of Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University.
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Torbjörn Tännsjö is Kristian Claëson Professor of Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University.
Praise for the first edition:"Clear, comprehensive, and fair-minded coverage of the field." -- L. Wayne Sumner, Theoria"About the first edition: It is an excellent book: it leads people into quite sophisticated issues with such clarity, and such good real-world cases, that it doesn't seem at all dry or academic." -- Jonathan Glover
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- PublisherEdinburgh University Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0748636900
- ISBN 13 9780748636907
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