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Doing ethics : moral reasoning and contemporary issues /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vaughn, Lewis
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2013]
Edition:3rd ed.
Subjects:
Ethics.
Table of Contents:
  • Ethics and the examined life
  • Subjectivism, relativism, and emotivism
  • Evaluating moral arguments
  • The power of moral theories
  • Consequentialist theories: maximize the god
  • Nonconsequentialist theories: do your duty
  • Virtue ethics: be a good person
  • Abortion
  • Altering genes and cloning humans
  • Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
  • Captial punishment
  • Sexual morality
  • Same-sex marriage
  • Environmental ethics
  • Animal rights
  • Political violence: war, terrorism, and torture
  • Global economic justice.