Exploring Ethics: A Journey to the Kingdom of Good and Evil

Author: (English) Almond
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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: Introduction This is a lively and comprehensive introduction to ethics, gathering the theoretical viewpoints of major ethical schools, which provide the foundation for exploring the main issues of applied ethics and their new developments. The author's approach differs from other recent introductions to ethics, avoiding utilitarianism in favor of a rights-based and virtue ethics.
Highlights: Formally similar to the book Sophie's World, it introduces ethics through a new conversational and correspondence-based method; it is a companion to the author's Exploring Philosophy; contains a lively and comprehensive introduction to ethics; advocates for rights and virtue ethics to oppose the commonly accepted utilitarian approach.