Living Philosophy: An Introduction to Moral Thought

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Psychology Press, 2003 - 354 páginas
First published in 2003. Living Philosophy: An introduction to moral thought, Third edition is a thoroughly revised and updated version of its highly successful and popular predecessor. Incorporating several brand new case studies and discussion points, the book introduces central questions in ethical theory to the student and assumes no previous knowledge of philosophy.
 

Índice

The scope of ethics
19
Facts and values
46
Our knowledge of right and wrong
63
Kant 30
99
1
111
Mill and Utilitarianism
118
367
131
Existentialism
137
Ethics and politics
225
Environmental ethics and bioethics
255
41
277
Ethics and education
279
43
291
Moral maturity
301
44
306
5550
314

19
156
Free will and determinism
161
SECTION 3
183
Eastern religions and cultural relativism
206
the philosophy of experience
316
Notes
343
56
351
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Ray Billington was Principal Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the West of England, and is the author of Understanding Eastern Philosophy (Routledge1997), Religion Without God (Routledge 2002) and East of Existentialism (1990).

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