Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics

by Rae, Scott B.

• ISBN13: 9780310291091
• ISBN10: 0310291097
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780310323235
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780310230151, 9780310536420
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-01
• Publisher: HARPER
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Summary

Now in its third edition, this foremost college ethics text helps students form a basis for practical, ethical decision making in contemporary culture. Substantial updates and revisions include a new chapter on ethics and economics, online resources for instructors, current case studies, new material on bioethics and stem cell research, and much more.

Author Biography

Scott B. Rae (PhD, University of Southern California) is professor of Christian ethics at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, La Mirada, California

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 8
Publisher's Preface	p. 9
Introduction: Why Study Ethics?	p. 11
Christian Ethics	p. 24
Ethical Systems and Ways of Moral Reasoning	p. 63
Making Ethical Decisions	p. 104
Abortion and Embryonic Stem Cell Research	p. 121
Reproductive Technologies	p. 155
Biotechnology, Genetics, and Human Cloning	p. 191
Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia	p. 212
Capital Punishment	p. 247
Sexual Ethics	p. 270
The Morality of War	p. 302
Ethics and Economics	p. 329
General Index	p. 363
Scripture Index	p. 371
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