Introducing Ethics: A Graphic Guide

What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last-ditch cultural defense of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant information, free markets and possible ecological disaster, how do we define "rights", self-interest and civic duties? What are the acceptable limits of scientific investigation and genetic engineering, the rights and wrongs of animal rights, euthanasia and civil disobedience?"Introducing Ethics" confronts these dilemmas, tracing the arguments of the great moral thinkers, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes and Kant, and brings us up to date with postmodern critics.

Author: Dave Robinson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: 01/15/2005
Series: Introducing (Icon Books)
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 6.50h x 4.60w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781848310087
4th Edition