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Ethics Steven M. Cahn (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, The City of New York Graduate Center)

Ethics By Steven M. Cahn (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, The City of New York Graduate Center)

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Ethics: History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues features fifty-nine selections organized into three parts, providing instructors with great fleixibility in designing and teaching a variety of courses in moral philosophy.

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Ethics: History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues by Steven M. Cahn (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, The City of New York Graduate Center)

Ethics: History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues, Sixth Edition, features fifty-nine selections organized into three parts, providing instructors with great flexibility in designing and teaching a variety of courses in moral philosophy. Spanning 2,500 years of ethical theory, the first part, Historical Sources, ranges from ancient Greece to the twentieth century and now includes the complete text of John Dewey's Theory of Valuation. The second part, Modern Ethical Theory, includes many of the most important essays of the past century. The discussion of varieties of normative ethics continues in the work of major contemporary philosophers, while landmark selections reflect concern with moral language and the justification of morality. In the third part, Contemporary Moral Problems, the readings present the current debates over abortion, euthanasia, famine relief, environmentalism, and the use of torture in interrogations, as well as essays on the trolley problem, death, and the meaning of life. One-third of the selections are authored by women. Wherever possible, each reading is printed in its entirety. The sixth edition adds study questions after each reading in order to help students delve more deeply into each work and also features eight new selections and expanded introductions. A password-protected Instructor's Manual is available on the book's Ancillary Resource Center.

Ethics Reviews

Ethics is an excellent text, simply unmatched in its versatility. The selections are exceptionally well chosen. * Robert B. Talisse, Vanderbilt University *
There are so many excellent selections covering a broad range of authors and topics that instructors have a more than ample pool from which to construct any number of rich syllabi, allowing for lots of flexibility. * William J. Fitzpatrick, University of Rochester *

About Steven M. Cahn (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, The City of New York Graduate Center)

Steven M. Cahn is Professor of Philosophy at The City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author or editor of more than fifty books. Most recently, he wrote From Student to Scholar: A Candid Guide to Becoming a Professor (2008) and coauthored Happiness and Goodness: Philosophical Reflections on Living Well (2015). Dr. Cahn is the editor of The World of Philosophy (OUP, 2015), Exploring Philosophy, Fifth Edition (OUP, 2014), Political Philosophy, Third Edition (OUP, 2014), and Exploring Ethics, Third Edition (OUP, 2013). Peter Markie is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is the author of Descartes's Gambit (1988) and the coauthor of Introducing Ethics (OUP, 2014).

Table of Contents

*=NEW TO THIS EDITION; I. HISTORICAL SOURCES; 1. PLATO; 2. ARISTOTLE; 3. EPICURUS; 4. CICERO; 5. EPICTETUS; 6. AUGUSTINE; 7. THOMAS AQUINAS; 8. THOMAS HOBBES; 9. JOSEPH BUTLER; 10. DAVID HUME; 11. IMMANUEL KANT; 12. JEREMY BENTHAM; 13. JOHN STUART MILL; 14. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE; * 15. JOHN DEWEY; 16. ALBERT CAMUS; 17. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE; II. MODERN ETHICAL THEORY; 18. G.E. MOORE; 19. H.A. PRICHARD; 20. A.J. AYER; 21. C.L. STEVENSON; 22. R.M. HARE; * 23. J.J.C. SMART; 24. BERNARD WILLIAMS; 25. W.D. ROSS; 26. JOHN RAWLS; 27. DAVID GAUTHIER; * 28. T.M. SCANLON; 29. JOEL FEINBERG; 30. BARBARA HERMAN; 31. PHILIPPA FOOT; 32. CHRISTINE KORSGAARD; 33. THOMAS NAGEL; 34. SUSAN WOLF; 35. G.E.M. ANSCOMBE; * 36. JULIA ANNAS; 37. VIRGINIA HELD; 38. GILBERT HARMAN; 39. NICHOLAS L. STURGEON; 40. J.L. MACKIE; 41. JOHN MCDOWELL; * 42. WALTER SINNOTT-ARMSTRONG; * 43. MARY MIDGLEY; * 44. JAMES RACHELS; III. CONTEMPORARY MORAL PROBLEMS; 45. JUDITH JARVIS THOMSON; 46. MARY ANNE WARREN; 47. DON MARQUIS; 48. ROSALIND HURSTHOUSE; 49. JAMES RACHELS; 50. PHILIPPA FOOT; 51. PETER SINGER; 52. JOHN ARTHUR; 53. ELLIOT SOBER; 54. HENRY SHUE; 55. DANIEL J. HILL; 56. JUDITH JARVIS THOMSON; *; 57. JUDITH JARVIS THOMSON; 58. THOMAS NAGEL; 59. RICHARD TAYLOR

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CIN0190209801G
9780190209803
0190209801
Ethics: History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues by Steven M. Cahn (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, The City of New York Graduate Center)
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Paperback
Oxford University Press Inc
20151029
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