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The Practice of Ethics

Hugh LaFollette (Author)

9780631219453, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 17 November 2006

320 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 1.7 cm, 0.544 kg

The Practice of Ethics is an outstanding guide to the burgeoning field of applied ethics, and offers a coherent narrative that is both theoretically and pragmatically grounded for framing practical issues.

  • Discusses a broad range of contemporary issues such as racism, euthanasia, animal rights, and gun control.
  • Argues that ethics must be put into practice in order to be effective.
  • Draws upon relevant insights from history, psychology, sociology, law and biology, as well as philosophy.
  • An excellent companion to LaFollette's authoritative anthology, Ethics in Practice: An Anthology, Third Edition (Blackwell, 2006).

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

Part I: Learning to Theorize:.

1. The Ethical Impulse.

2. A Tale of Two Theories.

3. Using and Sharpening the Theoretical Tools.

4. Relativism.

Part II: The Moral Status of Groups:.

5. Racism.

6. Affirmative Action.

Part III: Life and Death:.

7. Religion and Morality.

8. Death, Dying, and Physician-assisted Suicide.

9. Slippery Slope Arguments.

Part IV: Autonomy, Responsibility, and Risk:.

10. Autonomy, Children, and Paternalism.

11. Punishment.

12. Gun Control.

Part V: Living Morally:.

13. Everyday Morality.

14. Character, Virtue Ethics, and Pragmatism.

15. Animals.

Part VI: The Demands of Morality:.

16. World Hunger.

17. Is Morality Demanding?.

18. Egoism: Psychological and Moral.

Part VII: Thinking Ahead:.

19. Moral Speculations.

Index

Subject Areas: Society & culture: general [JF]
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