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Consuming choices : ethics in a global consumer age /
Being a consumer is now integral to the human experience, something none of us can avoid. At the same time, many of the products that we buy come to us with histories steeped in highly unethical practices, such as worker exploitation, animal suffering, and environmental damage. Consuming Choices con...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
c2010.
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| Colección: | Philosophy and the global context.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Being a consumer is now integral to the human experience, something none of us can avoid. At the same time, many of the products that we buy come to us with histories steeped in highly unethical practices, such as worker exploitation, animal suffering, and environmental damage. Consuming Choices considers the ethical dimensions of consumer life by exploring several basic questions: Exactly what sorts of unethical practices are implicated in today's consumer products? Does moral culpability for thesepractices fall solely on the companies that perform them, or does it also fall upon consumers wh. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 139 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-130) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781442204300 1442204303 0742548139 0742548147 1282561235 9781282561236 9786612561238 6612561238 9780742548138 9780742548145 |