Ethics : theory and practice
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0024199419
ISBN 13
9780024199416
Category
Publication Year
1990
Publisher
Subject
Ethics--Textbooks.; Ethical problems--Textbooks.
Description
xi, 511 pages ; 24 cm; What is morality? -- Consequentialist (teleological) theories of morality -- Nonconsequentialist (Deontological) theories of morality and virtue ethics -- Absolutism versus relativism -- Freedom versus determinism -- Reward and punishment -- Setting up a moral system: basic assumptions and basic principles -- The taking of human life -- Allowing someone to die, mercy death, and mercy killing -- Abortion --Lying, cheating, breaking promises and stealing -- Morality and human sexuality -- Bioethics--ethical issues in medicine -- Business ethics -- Environmental ethics.;
Biblio Notes
19456205
Number of Copies
1
