Thinking Critically About Ethical Issues

✍ Scribed by Ruggiero, Vincent Ryan

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 239
• Edition: Ninth edition.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Thinking Critically About Ethical Issues invites readers to apply ethical principles to issues that exemplify the kinds of moral challenges encountered in everyday life. It provides an overview of the need for ethics and then focuses on strategies for effective decision making. Ruggiero emphasizes doing ethical analysis rather than comparing ethical theories. The history of ethics is covered in the concluding chapter.

✦ Table of Contents

COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 2
COPYRIGHT......Page 3
CONTENTS......Page 12
PREFACE......Page 5
I / THE CONTEXT......Page 16
CHAPTER 1 Preliminary Considerations......Page 17
CHAPTER 2 The Role of the Majority View......Page 36
CHAPTER 3 The Role of Feelings......Page 43
CHAPTER 4 The Role of Conscience......Page 52
CHAPTER 5 Comparing Cultures......Page 65
II / A STRATEGY......Page 80
CHAPTER 6 A Foundation for Judgment......Page 81
CHAPTER 7 The Basic Criteria......Page 92
CHAPTER 8 Considering Consequences......Page 113
CHAPTER 9 Considering Obligations......Page 126
CHAPTER 10 Considering Moral Ideals......Page 137
CHAPTER 11 Determining Moral Responsibility......Page 149
III / THE TRADITION......Page 160
CHAPTER 12 A Perspective on History......Page 161
IV / CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL CONTROVERSIES......Page 170
Education......Page 172
Media and the Arts......Page 176
Sex......Page 180
Government......Page 183
Law......Page 188
Business......Page 191
Medicine......Page 196
Science......Page 200
War......Page 204
AFTERWORD: A SUGGESTION FOR FURTHER STUDY......Page 207
APPENDIX 1: WRITING ABOUT MORAL ISSUES......Page 209
APPENDIX 2: RESEARCHING MORAL ISSUES......Page 216
NOTES......Page 221
B......Page 228
C......Page 229
D......Page 230
E......Page 231
G......Page 232
J......Page 233
M......Page 234
N......Page 235
P......Page 236
S......Page 237
T......Page 238
Y......Page 239

✦ Subjects

Ethics