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Beyond bumper sticker ethics : an introduction to theories of right and wrong /

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 ide...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilkens, Steve, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, [2011]
Edición:Second edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.