Exploring Ethics A Traveller's Tale

by Almond, Brenda

• ISBN13: 9780631199526
• ISBN10: 0631199527
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-05-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume is a lively, wide-ranging introduction to ethics. It provides accessible coverage of the main ethical theories which offer the basis for an exploration of key issues and recent developments in applied ethics. The author's approach differs from other recent introductions, eschewing the utilitarian approach in favor of a rights and virtue ethics alternative.

Author Biography

Brenda Almond is Professor of Moral and Social Philosophy at the University of Hull, Chair of the Society for Applied Philosophy, and joint editor of the Journal of Applied Philosophy. She is the author of several books, which include Moral Concerns (1987), Education and the Individual (1981) and is the editor of AIDS: A Moral Issues (1990) and Introducing Applied Ethics (Blackwell, 1995).

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(1)
Acknowledgements	x
Preamble: The Traveller's Story	1	(3)
1 Free to Choose	4	(21)
2 Born Selfish?	25	(14)
3 Pursuing Happiness	39	(16)
4 Relativist Mutations	55	(19)
5 The Resort to Rights	74	(16)
6 Principles and Intuitions	90	(18)
7 Virtue and Context	108	(16)
8 Personal Connections	124	(14)
9 Matters of Life and Death	138	(29)
10 Equality and Diversity	167	(19)
11 Freedom, Justice and Conflict	186	(21)
12 Temperance, Harmony and Environment	207	(18)
Postscript: The Traveller's Return	225	(3)
Key to the Characters	228	(1)
Reading Guides and Bibliographies	229	(23)
Index	252