from altruism and utilitarianism to bioethics and political ethics, an exploration of the concepts of right and wrong Boone, Brian creator text mau 2017 monographic eng

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255 pages ; 19 cm. "Ethics 101 offers an exciting look into the history of moral principles that dictate human behavior. This easy-to-read guide presents the key concepts of ethics in fun, straightforward lessons and exercises featuring only the most important facts, theories, and ideas. Ethics 101 includes unique, accessible elements such as explanations of the major moral philosophies, including utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics, and eastern philosophers including Avicenna, Buddha, and Confucius; and unique profiles of the greatest characters in moral philosophy"-- Ethics and the ancient Greek philosophers. Philosophy versus moral philosophy ; The importance of ethics ; The Sophists ; The Socratic method ; Plato's Ethics ; The moral philosophy of Aristotle The divergent Greek schools. The philosophy of the Cynics ; The skeptics of ancient Greece ; The Epicureans ; The Stoics ; Plotinus and Neoplatonism Consequentialist ethics. Normative ethics and descriptive ethics ; Jeremy Bentham and measuring utility ; John Stuart Mill and utilitarianism ; Ethical altruism ; Rule consequentialism ; Act consequentialism ; Criticisms of consequentialist ethics Deontological ethics. Immanuel Kant and Kantianism ; Kant and the categorical imperative ; Alternate formulations of Kant's categorical imperative ; John Rawls and the ethics of egalitarianism ; Criticisms of Kantian ethics Virtue ethics. Virtue ethics ; Criticisms of virtue ethics ; Divine command theory ; Thomas Aquinas and natural law ethics ; Ethical relativism ; Moral realism and antirealism Eastern moral philosophies. Buddhist ethics ; Confucianism and ethics ; Ibn Sina's reconciliation ; Ibn Miskawayh and Al-Ghazali ; Taoist ethics Negative views on ethics. Niccolò Machiavelli ; Jean-Paul Sartre and existentialism ; The ethics of Friedrich Nietzsche ; The philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer ; Ludwig Wittgenstein and the language of ethics Other moral philosophers. Peter Abelard and nominalism ; Voltaire and hedonism ; John Locke and the just government ; Lord Shaftesbury and moral sense theory ; The philosophies of Baruch Spinoza Classic ethics exercises. The trolley dilemma ; The prisoner's dilemma ; Eubulides of Miletus and the Sorites paradox ; The spider in the urinal ; The cow in the field problem ; The liar paradox ; The ship of Theseus problem Applied ethics. Business and professional ethics ; Ethics in politics ; Medical ethics ; Challenges in bioethics ; Social ethics Brian Boone. Includes index. Ethics Ética Right and wrong BJ 1012 B724e 2017 205 Boone, Brian, author. Avon, Massachusetts : Adams Media, 2017 (DLC) 2017031981 9781507204931 (hardback) 1507204930 (hardcover) 2017030570 DLC 170630 20260316101618.0 19764893 eng