Ethical Theory: Classical And Contemporary Readings - Softcover

 
9780495006718: Ethical Theory: Classical And Contemporary Readings

Synopsis

The most up-to-date and comprehensive reader in ethical theory available today, Pojman's anthology, ETHICAL THEORY, provides students with well over 70 of the most influential classic and contemporary readings. Articles are arranged in a coherent framework, with the presentation of each problem progressing from the classical to the contemporary and typically treated in a dialectic (pro and con) format. This challenging volume will situate your students squarely at the heart of every important debate now raging in the present scholarship of ethical theorists.

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Review

"His introductory analyses show a very strong grasp of the subject of each chapter. His ways of making distinctions and putting them into charts or tables is very helpful to teacher and students alike."

Synopsis

Pojman (philosophy, US Military Academy, West Point) provides an anthology of readings from the classical and contemporary periods by Thomas Aquinas, Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Nagel, John Stuart Mill, Aristotle, David Hume, Charles Darwin, J.L. Mackie, Peter Singer, Susan Wolf, and Robert Nozick, among others. Sections focus on ethical rel

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