Peter Singer (ed.)

Ethics

Herausgeber: Singer, Peter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Draws on many other disciplines, as well as moral philosophy, to convey the intellectual excitement of the search for answers to basic questions about how we ought to live. What is ethics? Where does it come from? Can we really hope to find any rational way of deciding how we ought to live?

Produktdetails

• Oxford Readers
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 654g
• ISBN-13: 9780192892454
• ISBN-10: 0192892452
• Artikelnr.: 21485053

Autorenporträt

Peter Singer is Professor and Deputy Director at the Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University, Victoria. He has made numerous TV appearances talking about ethics and animal rights; he is general editor of `Studies in Bioethics' (OUP); extremely well known in Australia and a big name in ethics throughout the world.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION PART 1: THE NATURE OF ETHICS: ITS ORIGINS,VARIATIONS, AND BASIS
A. The Long Search for the Origins of Ethics
B. Common Themes in Primate Ethics
Introduction
i Kinship
ii Reciprocity
iii Sexual Morality
C. The Role of Reason
Introduction
PART II: THE CONTENT OF ETHICS: JUDGING GOOD OUTCOMES AND RIGHTS ACTS
A. Ultimate God
Introduction
B. Deciding What is Right
Introduction
i Natural Law
ii Kant's Ethics of Duty
iii Consequentialism
iv Contract Ethics EPILOGUE