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Textbook Details
By James Brusseau
- Published
- February 2018
- Discipline
- Philosophy Textbooks
- ISBN (Digital)
- 978-1-4533-8736-8
Brief Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: What Is Ethics?
- Chapter 2: Theories of Duties and Rights: Traditional Tools for Making Decisions When the Means Justify the Ends
- Chapter 3: Theories of Consequence Ethics: Traditional Tools for Making Decisions when the Ends Justify the Means
- Chapter 4: Theories Responding to the Challenge of Cultural Relativism
- Chapter 5: Freedom and Responsibility
- Chapter 6: Crime, Punishment, and Social Control
- Chapter 7: Religions, Convictions, and Families
- Chapter 8: Abortion
- Chapter 9: War, Peace, and Ethics
- Chapter 10: Terrorism, Response, and Ethics
- Chapter 11: Discrimination, Victimization, and Affirmative Action
- Chapter 12: Individuals, Collectives, Wealth Distribution, and Social Justice
- Chapter 13: Advertising, Desire, Consumerism, and Consumers
- Chapter 14: Privacy and Identity in Big Data Reality
- Chapter 15: Corporations and Social Responsibility
- Chapter 16: Ethics and the Environment
- Chapter 17: Ethics and Animals