Sale!

Ethics Discovering Right and Wrong 7th Edition by Louis Pojman, James Fieser 1111298173 9781111298173

Original price was: $50.00.Current price is: $35.00.

Ethics Discovering Right and Wrong 7th Edition Louis P. Pojman Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Louis P. Pojman, James Fieser
ISBN(s): 9781111298173, 1111298173
Edition: 7th
File Details: PDF, 3.85 MB
Year: 2012
Language: english
SKU: EB-2428434 Categories: , Tags: ,

Ethics Discovering Right and Wrong 7th Edition by Louis Pojman, James Fieser – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 1111298173, 9781111298173

Full download Ethics Discovering Right and Wrong 7th Edition after payment

Product details:

ISBN 10: 1111298173 

ISBN 13: 9781111298173

Author: Louis P. Pojman, James Fieser

Study ethics from a classic ethics text, written by one of contemporary philosophy’s most skilled teachers, Louis P. Pojman, now revised by best-selling author and editor of the INTERNET ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY, James Fieser. ETHICS: DISCOVERING RIGHT AND WRONG, Seventh Edition, offers a concise yet comprehensive overview of the fundamental objectives and outlooks of ethical theory. Written with Pojman’s hallmark engaging, conversational manner with strong supporting pedagogy, this book challenges students to develop their own moral theories and to reason through ethical problems for themselves. The text even-handedly raises critical questions and fosters independent thinking within a rigorous presentation that draws numerous examples from both classical and contemporary sources. This edition maintains the text’s clarity and strengths with its non-dogmatic style and generous presentation of various positions. This revision includes more feminist and multicultural ethical perspectives.

Table of contents:

1. WHAT IS ETHICS?
Ethics and its subdivisions.
Morality as compared with other normative subjects.
Traits of moral principles.
Domains of ethical assessment.
Conclusion.

2. ETHICAL RELATIVISM
Subjective ethical relativism.
Conventional ethical relativism.
Criticisms of conventional ethical relativism.
Conclusion.

3. MORAL OBJECTIVISM
Aquinas’ objectivism and absolutism.
Moderate objectivism.
Ethical situationalism.
Conclusion.

4. VALUE AND THE QUEST FOR THE GOOD
Intrinsic and instrumental value.
The value of pleasure.
Are values objective or subjective?
The relation of value to morality.
The good life.

5. SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY AND THE MOTIVE TO BE MORAL
Why does society need moral rules?
Why should I be moral?
Morality, self-interest and game theory.
The motive to always be moral.
Conclusion.

6. EGOISM, SELF-INTEREST, AND ALTRUISM
Psychological egoism.
Ethical egoism.
Arguments against ethical egoism.
Evolution and altruism.
Conclusion.

7. UTILITARIANISM
Classic utilitarianism.
Act and rule-utilitarianism.
Criticism of utilitarianism.
Criticism of the ends justifying immoral means.
Conclusion.

8. KANT AND DEONTOLOGICAL THEORIES
Kant’s influences.
The categorical imperative.
Counterexamples to the principle of the law of nature.
Other formulations of the categorical imperative.
The problem of exceptionless rules.
The problem of posterity.
Conclusion: a reconciliation project.

9. VIRTUE THEORY
The nature of virtue ethics.
Criticisms of action-based ethics.
Connections between virtue-based and action-based ethics.
Feminism and the ethics of care.
Conclusion.

10. GENDER AND ETHICS
Classic Views.
Female Care Ethics.
Four Options regarding Gender and Ethics.
Conclusion.

11. RELIGION AND ETHICS
Does morality depend on religion?
Is religion irrelevant or even contrary to morality?
Does religion enhance the moral life?
Conclusion.

12. THE FACT-VALUE PROBLEM
Hume and Moore: the problem classically stated.
Ayer and emotivism.
Hare and prescriptivism.
Naturalism and the fact-value problem.
Conclusion.

13. MORAL REALISM AND THE CHALLENGE OF SKEPTICISM
Mackie’s moral skepticism.
Harman’s moral nihilism.
A defense of moral realism.
Conclusion.

People also search:

what is right and wrong in ethics

ethical principles of right and wrong

ethics discovering right and wrong 8th edition

ethics discovering right and wrong pdf

Tags: Louis Pojman, James Fieser, Ethics, Discovering