Contemporary ethics

Aimed at undergraduates, Contemporary Ethics presupposes little or no familiarity with ethics, and is written in a clear and engaging style. It provides students with a sympathetic but critical guide to utilitarianism, explaining its different forms and exploring the debates it has spawned. In so doing, the book leads students through a number of current issues in contemporary ethics that are connected to controversies over and within utilitarianism. At the same time, it uses utilitarianism to introduce students to ethics as a subject. In these ways, the book is not only a guide to utilitarianism, but also an introduction to some standard problems of ethics and to several important topics in contemporary ethical theory.

First sentence: The sad but famous case of Karen Ann Quinlan posed a dramatic moral question, one which most people had not previously considered.

Year

1998

Language

English

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Limited

Editions

1

Pages

311

ISBN

9780631202943

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