The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature - Softcover

Vaughn, Lewis; Pojman, Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195396251 ISBN 13: 9780195396256

Publisher: OUP USA, 2010

Synopsis

Now in its fourth edition, Louis P. Pojman and Lewis Vaughn's acclaimed The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature brings together an extensive and varied collection of eighty-five classical and contemporary readings on ethical theory and practice. Integrating literature with philosophy in an innovative way, the book uses literary works to enliven and make concrete the ethical theory or applied issues addressed. Literary works by Angelou, Camus, Hawthorne, Huxley, Ibsen, Le Guin, Melville, Orwell, Styron, Tolstoy, and many others lead students into such philosophical concepts and issues as relativism; utilitarianism; virtue ethics; the meaning of life; freedom and autonomy; sex, love, and marriage; animal rights; and terrorism. These topics are developed further through readings by philosophers including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Singer, Sartre, Nagel, and Thomson. This unique anthology emphasizes the personal dimension of ethics, which is often ignored or minimized in ethics texts. It also incorporates chapter introductions, study questions, suggestions for further reading, and biographical sketches of the writers.
The fourth edition features five new readings—by James Rachels, Alasdair MacIntyre, Michael Levin, John Corvino, and Stephen Nathanson—and a new appendix on how to write a philosophy paper. A new Companion Website features resources for both students and instructors including reading summaries; true/false, multiple-choice, and essay questions; and PowerPoint slides. Ideal for introductory ethics courses, The Moral Life, Fourth Edition, also provides an engaging gateway into personal and social ethics for general readers.

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Review

"I found the text to be first-rate and a pleasure to use as a core volume."--Neil Delaney, University of Nevada, Las Vegas "The volume compares very favorably with other texts in the introduction to ethics market. I rate it as the best current reader."--Kevin Harrelson, Ball State University

About the Author

The late Louis P. Pojman was Professor of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Lewis Vaughn is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Living Philosophy, Second Edition (OUP, 2017), Bioethics, Third Edition (OUP, 2016), and Philosophy Here and Now, Second Edition (OUP, 2015).

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195396251
• ISBN 13: 9780195396256
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 1014