50 Ethics Ideas You Really Need to Know

Ben Dupré read Classics at Exeter College, Oxford before pursuing a career in reference publishing. He was Children's Reference Publisher at Oxford University Press from 1992 until 2004 and, all told, has more than 20 years' experience of bringing complex and challenging concepts to the widest possible audience.

• Introduction. MORAL FOUNDATIONS: The good life. Divine command. Right and wrong. Moral realism. Moral subjectivism. Relativism. The Ring of Gyges. Moral intuitions. HOW SHOULD WE LIVE? The golden rule. The harm principle. Ends and means. Utilitarianism. Kantian ethics. Prima facie duties. Double effect. Acts and omissions. Moral luck. Free will. The social contract. Virtue ethics. Humanism. Nihilism. VIRTUES AND OTHER GOOD THINGS: Justice. Equality. Tolerance. Rights. Altruism. Friendship. Heroes and saints. Integrity. VICES AND OTHER BAD THINGS: Crime and punishment. The death penalty. Torture. Corruption. Terrorism. Censorship. Drugs. HUMANS AND OTHER ANIMALS: Animal liberation. The research paradox. Eating animals. BIOETHICS: The sanctity of life. Death. Genetic engineering. Cloning. GLOBAL ETHICS: War. Realpolitik. Capitalism. Lifeboat Earth. Poverty. The environment. Glossary. Index.

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