Beyond bumper sticker ethics : an introduction to theories of right and wrong /
Wilkens, Steve, 1955-
Beyond bumper sticker ethics : an introduction to theories of right and wrong / Steve Wilkens. - Second edition. - 1 online resource (240 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230).
Bumper stickers and ethical systems -- When in Rome, do as the Romans do: cultural relativism -- Look out for number one: ethical egoism -- I couldn't help myself: behaviorism -- Survival of the (ethical) fittest: evolutionary ethics -- The greatest happiness: utilitarianism -- It's your duty: Kantian ethics -- Be good: virtue ethics -- The moral of the story is ... : narrative ethics -- All you need is love: situation ethics -- Doing what comes naturally: natural law ethics -- God said it, I believe it, that settles it: divine command theory -- Unraveling the options.
Ideas have consequences. And sometimes those ideas can be squeezed in to slogans, slapped on bumper stickers and tweeted into cyberspace. These compact messages coming at us from all directions often compress in a few words entire ethical systems. It turns out that there's a lot more to the ideas behind these slogans - ideas that need to be sorted out before we make important moral decisions as individuals or as societies.
English.
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Ethics.
Christian ethics.
Morale.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY--Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Christian ethics
Ethics
BJ1012 / .W515 2011eb
171
Beyond bumper sticker ethics : an introduction to theories of right and wrong / Steve Wilkens. - Second edition. - 1 online resource (240 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230).
Bumper stickers and ethical systems -- When in Rome, do as the Romans do: cultural relativism -- Look out for number one: ethical egoism -- I couldn't help myself: behaviorism -- Survival of the (ethical) fittest: evolutionary ethics -- The greatest happiness: utilitarianism -- It's your duty: Kantian ethics -- Be good: virtue ethics -- The moral of the story is ... : narrative ethics -- All you need is love: situation ethics -- Doing what comes naturally: natural law ethics -- God said it, I believe it, that settles it: divine command theory -- Unraveling the options.
Ideas have consequences. And sometimes those ideas can be squeezed in to slogans, slapped on bumper stickers and tweeted into cyberspace. These compact messages coming at us from all directions often compress in a few words entire ethical systems. It turns out that there's a lot more to the ideas behind these slogans - ideas that need to be sorted out before we make important moral decisions as individuals or as societies.
English.
9780830869077 0830869077 0830839364 9780830839360 0830874542 9780830874545
Ethics.
Christian ethics.
Morale.
ethics (philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY--Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Christian ethics
Ethics
BJ1012 / .W515 2011eb
171