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The burning issue of current moral philosophical thought.
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 defence 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 has taught philosophy for many years and is the author of numerous Introducing titles.
Chris Garratt is the cartoonist behind the legendary Biff comic strip in the Guardian.
ISBN: 9781848310087
Author: ROBINSON, DAVE
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04/09/2008
RRP: $21.99
Pages: 176
Dimension: 168mm X 118mm
Imprint: Icon Books