Aimed at undergraduates, Contemporary Ethics presupposes little or no familiarity with ethics and is written in a clear and engaging style. It provides students with a sympathetic but critical guide to utilitarianism, explaining its different forms and exploring the debates it has spawned. The book leads students through a number of current issues in contemporary ethics that are connected to controversies over and within utilitarianism. At the same time, it uses utilitarianism to introduce students to ethics as a subject. In these ways, the book is not only a guide to utilitarianism, but also an introduction to some standard problems of ethics and to several important topics in contemporary ethical theory.
ISBN: | 9780631202943 |
Publication date: | 30th November 1998 |
Author: | William (San Jose State University) Shaw |
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell an imprint of John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 324 pages |
Series: | Contemporary Philosophy |
Genres: |
Ethics and moral philosophy Western philosophy from c 1800 |