Ethics: The Big Questions

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405191287 ISBN 13: 9781405191289

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

As with the first edition, Utilitarian, Kantian, and Aristotelian viewpoints are all well represented here, and this second edition features updated sections throughout―including eighteen new readings―and an entirely new section on multiculturalism.

• Presents students with a unique focus on three main challenges to ethics: feminism, environmentalism, and multiculturalism
• Pedagogical focus on the 'big questions' motivates student interest
• Collects readings on all key traditional theoretical and practical questions in ethics

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Title Ethical Theory Seeing the Light What's Good on TV? Ethics An Anthology Exploring Ethics Through Movies Understanding Ethics Through Television The Big Questions   Resource Type Anthology Textbook Textbook Anthology   Audience Level Advanced undergraduate and graduate Undergraduate and graduate Undergraduate Undergraduate and graduate   Pages 816 383 320 608   List Price $69.95 $34.95 $34.95 $56.95   Publication Date July, 2012 March, 2012 October, 2011 March, 2009   Author(s) Russell Shafer-Landau Wanda Teays Jamie Carlin Watson and Robert Arp James P. Sterba   Imprint Wiley-Blackwell Wiley-Blackwell Wiley-Blackwell Wiley-Blackwell   Print Book 0470671602 1444332880 1405194758 1405191287   Kindle Book B008H3TZXK B007RT1RD6 B0062O83K2 Not Available - Request Kindle Version   Edition 2 1 1 2   Brief Description Features a collection of 80 essays from classic and contemporary philosophers that address questions at the heart of moral philosophy. An engaging and innovative approach to the study of ethics and the development of moral reasoning skills through film. Introduction to the basic theories and concepts of moral philosophy using examples from classic and contemporary television shows. Uses the best available readings to ask the central questions of ethics: What is the nature of morality? Why be moral? What are the requirements of morality?

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This second edition of Ethics: The Big Questions focuses on the central questions of ethics: What is the nature of morality? Why be moral? What are the requirements of morality? It draws together the best available classical and contemporary readings to make these questions come alive for today's students. Utilitarian, Kantian, and Aristotelian viewpoints are all well represented, and the second edition features updated sections throughout ― including 18 new readings ― and an entirely new section on multiculturalism.

Unique to this volume is its coverage of three main challenges to ethics: from feminism, which shows how gender is relevant to morality; from environmentalism, which raises the question who is to count in morality; and from multiculturalism, which emphasizes the importance of different cultural perspectives to morality. These challenges must be met if morality is to be justified, and this is the only ethics anthology on the market that presents all three challenges to students for their consideration.