Ethical Process, The: An Approach to Disagreements and Controversial Issues - Softcover

Brown Ph.D., Marvin; Ross Miller

 
9780130988898: Ethical Process, The: An Approach to Disagreements and Controversial Issues

Synopsis

For courses in all disciplines that use decision-making strategies to explore controversial issues.

This hands-on workbook helps students develop conceptual tools and argumentative strategies to move beyond merely having opinions to discovering and evaluating the information, values, and assumptions that underlie different positions on controversial issues and cases. Moves students from contentious debates to productive dialogues, and how to increase a group's resources so they can make better decisions.

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From the Back Cover

This new edition of The Ethical Process serves as an excellent supplement for courses in applied ethics and controversial issues. Employing a "workbook" presentation, the text provides students with a method of understanding the ethical dimension of issues and for making ethical decisions. The text's method helps students identify and sort out competing values and assumptions and critically examine their normative significance.

New to the Third Edition
  • New material on the 'ethic of care'
  • Additional material on interpretation
  • New material on the nature of disagreement
  • Enhanced use of the dialogical approach in previous editions

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