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Successfully shows students how to apply the most important moral theories to significant contemporary moral problems faced by individuals and the larger society. The methodology for doing this has two parts. First, students are shown how to analyze a problem into its components: Factual issues, conceptual issues, and moral issues. Second, students are given a step-by-step procedure for applying the theory, which provides students with a method for bringing the most important aspects of each moral theory to bear on the problem without getting lost...
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Charles E. (Ed) Harris, Jr., received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Vanderbilt University, having had an undergraduate major in biology and minor in chemistry. He is Professor of Philosophy and Sue and Harry Bovay Professor of the History and Ethics of Professional Engineering. His publications are primarily in applied ethics and engineering ethics.
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Preface. 1. What Is Ethics? 2. Morality: Subjective or Objective? 3. Moral Theories. 4. The Ethics of Self-Interest. 5. The Ethics of Natural Law. 6. The Ethics of Utilitarianism. 7. The Ethics of Respect for Persons. 8. Virtue Ethics. Appendix I: Applying the Moral Theories. Appendix II: Cases for Analysis. Index.
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- PublisherWadsworth Publishing
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0534169627
- ISBN 13 9780534169626
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages214
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