Exploring Ethics

This volume is a lively, wide-ranging introduction to ethics. It provides accessible coverage of the main ethical theories which offer the basis for an exploration of key issues and recent developments in applied ethics. The author's approach differs from other recent introductions, eschewing the utilitarian approach in favor of a rights and virtue ethics alternative. Preamble: The Traveller's Story.

1. Free to Choose.

2. Born Selfish?.

3. Pursuing Happiness.

4. Relativist Mutations.

5. The Resort to Rights.

6. Principles and Intuitions.

7. Virtue and Context.

8. Personal Connections.

9. Matters of Life and Death.

10. Equality and Diversity.

11. Freedom, Justice and Conflict.

12. Balance, Harmony and Environment.

Postscipt: The Traveller's Return.

Reading Guides.

Index.

"Exploring Ethics is not only enjoyable and stimulating; it also succeeds as an introduction to ethics without lapsing into the formalized appearance and stuffy taxonomy of a textbook." Raymond Dennehy, International Philosophical Quarterly Brenda Almond is Professor of Moral and Social Philosophy at the University of Hull, Chair of the Society for Applied Philosophy, and joint editor of the Journal of Applied Philosophy. She is the author of several books, which include Moral Concerns (1987), Education and the Individual (1981) and is the editor of AIDS: A Moral Issues (1990) and Introducing Applied Ethics (Blackwell, 1995). This volume is a lively, wide-ranging introduction to ethics. It provides accessible coverage of the main ethical theories which offer the basis for an exploration of key issues and recent developments in applied ethics. The author's approach differs from other recent introductions, eschewing the utilitarian approach in favor of a rights and virtue ethics alternative.