Contemporary Moral Arguments: Readings in Ethical Issues

By: Lewis Vaughn

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Synopsis: More than any other contemporary moral problems reader, Contemporary Moral Arguments focuses on the key arguments that have provoked the most debate in recent ethical issues. The book opens with two introductory chapters on critical reasoning and moral theory, which provide the basis for understanding and analyzing the arguments in the subsequent issues chapters (chs. 3-12). In the conventional way, these readings on ethical issues are sorted into 10 topical chapters covering issues such as abortion, sex and marriage, terrorism and torture, economic justice, etc. But the readings within these chapters are organized unconventionally, by argument. Each argument is introduced by a briefing that sketches the argument, provides conceptual background for it, and reviews some of the main philosophical responses to it. After the briefing come two to four essays presenting the classic statement of the argument, critiques and defenses of it, and discussions of related debates.

Book Quality:: Excellent
Book Size:: 724 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780195381931
Publisher:: Oxford University Press
Date of Addition:: 10/14/10
Copyrighted By:: Oxford University Press, Inc.
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Textbooks, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy
Grade Levels:: College Freshman, College Sophomore, College Junior, College Senior
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