Ethics and Experience

Moral Theory from Just War to Abortion

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Ethics and Experience introduces students to the key topics in moral theory through provocative moral issues—just war, abortion, physician assisted suicide, the death penalty and more. Steffen helps students bridge the gap between ethical theory and experience through developing a “common agreement” ethical system that is applicable to a variety of moral problems and issues with clear language and real-life examples.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-08-09
Mått152 x 224 x 19 mm
Vikt404 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor260
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781442216549

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Preface IntroductionPart I. Ethics – The Ethic Behind Just WarChapter One: Just War as an EthicChapter Two: Non-Violent Resistance as a Use of ForceChapter Three: The Hybrid Ethic and Its ApplicationChapter Four: Using the “Common Agreement” Ethic: A Critical EvaluationPart II. Experience – The Ethic beyond Just WarChapter Five: The Ethics of Physician Assisted SuicideChapter Six: The Ethics of Patient NontreatmentChapter Seven: The Ethics of Execution and Just Punishment Chapter Eight: The Ethics of Abortion: The Question of Innocence Chapter Nine:The Ethics of War: The Question of InnocenceNotesBibliographyIndex

Steffen (Lehigh Univ.) seeks to develop a general moral theory whose application to particular issues will do full justice to people's lived moral experience, as he claims utilitarianism, Kantianism, and virtue theory, each in its own way, do not. Rather than begin by directly discussing his own "common agreement" theory, a variant of natural law theory, he has it emerge from one of its particular applications, just war theory, and then applies it to other issues....Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates.