Ethics: Theory and Practice

✍ Scribed by Thiroux, Jacques P

• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 488
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Make Ethical Ideas Accessible to Students With a clear presentation, Ethics: Theory and Practice educates readers about ethical theory and has them apply what they learn to specific classic and contemporary moral problems (lying, cheating, establishing ethical business practices, honoring ethical obligations in medicine, etc.). Jacques P. Thiroux first wrote this text 1977 in order to educate readers about ethical theory and its applications in a way that beginning students could understand. The result was an accessible text that isn't too technical and doesn't plunge into complex readings without sufficient background. The text is fully updated with global issues and non-Western ethical views. Keith W. Krasemann now continues Thiroux's efforts of making ethical ideas accessible to students. Besides updating the foundations of the text, Krasemann incorporates new and relevant material, most of which is often unique only to this text.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 4
1. The Nature of Morality......Page 6
2. Consequentialist (Teleological) Theories of Morality......Page 37
3. Nonconsequentialist (Deontological) Theories of Morality......Page 55
4. Virtue Ethics......Page 70
5. Absolutism Versus Relativism......Page 86
6. Freedom Versus Determinism......Page 100
7. Reward and Punishment......Page 117
8. Setting Up a Moral System: Basic Assumptions and Basic Principles......Page 151
9. The Taking of Human Life......Page 175
10. Allowing Someone to Die, Mercy Death, and Mercy Killing......Page 198
11. Abortion......Page 241
12. Lying, Cheating, Breaking Promises, and Stealing......Page 263
13. Morality, Marriage, and Human Sexuality......Page 291
14. Bioethics—Ethical Issues in Medicine......Page 316
15. Business and Media Ethics......Page 345
16. Environmental Ethics......Page 374
Appendix: Applying Humanitarian Ethics to the Moral Problems of the Taking of Human Life......Page 404
Appendix: Applying Humanitarian Ethics to the Moral Problems of Allowing Someone to Die, Mercy Death,and Mercy Killing......Page 414
Appendix: Applying Humanitarian Ethics to the Moral Problems of Abortion......Page 423
Appendix: Applying Humanitarian Ethics to the Moral Problems of Lying, Cheating, Breaking Promises, and Stealing......Page 432
Appendix: Applying Humanitarian Ethics to the Moral Problems of Human Sexuality......Page 441
Appendix: Applying Humanitarian Ethics to Moral Problems in Medicine (Bioethics)......Page 446
Appendix: Applying Humanitarian Ethics to Moral Problems in Business (Business and Media Ethics)......Page 452
Appendix: Applying Humanitarian Ethics to Environmental Ethics......Page 458
Glossary......Page 463
Supplementary Reading......Page 472
C......Page 484
G......Page 485
O......Page 486
U......Page 487
Y......Page 488

✦ Subjects

Philosophy;Textbooks;Nonfiction;Academic;School;Reference;Psychology