Ethical StudiesNelson Thornes, 2004 - 346 من الصفحات A detailed treatment of ethics, preparing students for the methods of study expected in higher education. Covering the major western theories and their religious connections, as well as a series of pertinent contemporary ethical issues. This second edition has been substantially updated to provide comprehensive coverage of the Religious Ethics requirements of all major awarding bodies. |
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Absolutism and relativism | 13 |
Extracts from key texts | 19 |
Natural moral law | 23 |
a theory of usefulness | 36 |
Kant | 52 |
Naturalism and intuitionism | 64 |
Emotivism and prescriptivism | 76 |
Determinism and free will | 87 |
Ethical Issues | 173 |
Sexual ethics and homosexuality | 175 |
abortion | 191 |
IVF and embryo research | 202 |
Voluntary euthanasia | 215 |
Business ethics | 225 |
Environmental ethics | 242 |
Justice and punishment | 255 |
Key philosophers and texts | 96 |
Situation ethics | 99 |
Virtue theory | 111 |
Religion and Ethics | 121 |
Religion and morality | 123 |
Buddhist Christian and Muslim Ethics | 134 |
Conscience | 144 |
egoism and humanism | 161 |
War and peace | 277 |
human and animal | 290 |
Human cloning | 307 |
Glossary | 317 |
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