Applying Ethics: A Text With Readings

This best-selling text, reader, and casebook provides an outstanding introduction to moral philosophy, engaging students in the most perplexing issues of our time without sacrificing philosophical integrity. Numerous readings by philosophers and writers, and contemporary case studies, make chapter topics lively centerpieces for discussions. For each chapter, original readings follow the authors' introduction to the concepts of each issue, which are then followed by cases. Each reading includes a brief introduction and follows with Questions for Analysis. Cases are also followed by Questions for Analysis.

Jeffrey Olen is the author of PERSONS AND THEIR WORLD, ETHICS IN JOURNALISM, and MORAL FREEDOM, in addition to journal articles on a variety of topics. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Temple University, the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, and Regis University-Colorado Springs.

Vincent Barry is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Bakersfield College, having taught there for thirty-four years as well as being a highly successful philosophy textbook author.