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

Author: Ying, Almond, translated by Liu Yuli and others
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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: This is a vivid and comprehensive introduction to ethics, gathering the theoretical perspectives of major ethical schools, which provide a foundation for exploring key issues in applied ethics and their new developments. The author's approach differs from other recent introductions to ethics by avoiding utilitarianism and advocating a rights-based and virtue ethics.
Features: Formally similar to Sophie's World, it introduces ethics through a new conversational and correspondence-based method; it is a companion to the author's Exploring Philosophy; it contains a vivid and comprehensive introduction to ethics; it upholds rights-based and virtue ethics to oppose the commonly accepted utilitarian approach.