Right and Wrong A Practical Introduction to Ethics.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: White, Thomas I.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2017.
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.

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505 0 |a Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Ethics: What It Is, Does, and Isn't -- Philosophical Ethics -- Ethics: What Is It? -- Ethics -- Ethics and Philosophy -- What Ethics Isn't -- Ethics and Emotion-"What Counts Most Is What You Think" -- Ethics and Authority- "What Counts Most Is What You Think" -- Ethics, Authority, and Religion -- Ethics, Authority, and the Law -- Ethical Relativism -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 2 An "Ethical Yardstick"? -- What Makes Something Wrong? 
505 8 |a The Basis of a Standard-Human Well-Being, a Satisfying Life, and Flourishing -- Ethics and Human Well-Being -- Human 'Well-Being,' Evolution, Adaptation, and a Successful and Satisfying Life -- Flourishing -- What Do Humans Need in Order to 'Flourish'? -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Something for the Skeptics -- On Human Adaptability -- Human Well-Being, Successful Life, Satisfying Life, Flourishing, and Ethics -- What Makes Something an "Ethical" Issue? Our Three Cases -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 3 Measuring Consequences 
505 8 |a A Teleological (Results-Oriented) Approach to Ethics -- Jeremy Bentham, Utilitarianism, and Pleasure -- Measuring Pleasure-Bentham's "Hedonistic Calculus" -- Example 1: Mugging Grandma -- Example 2: Do I Turn in My Partner? -- Example 3: 'Double' Dating -- John Stuart Mill and Quality of Pleasure -- Evaluating Quality -- Analyzing Pleasures over the Long Run -- 'Double' Dating-a Reconsideration -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 4 Evaluating Actions -- A Deontological (Act-Oriented) Approach to Ethics -- Actions and Results: Drawing the Line -- Judging Actions through Results 
505 8 |a Judging Actions -- Measuring the Immeasurable-"Human" Behavior -- A Digression-A Few Words about the Intangible -- Back on Track- "Human" Behavior -- Choice and Freedom -- Freedom, Morality, and Immanuel Kant -- "Human" Behavior-other Facets -- "Never simply as a means" -- "In your own person" -- Intelligence (Reason) and Ethics -- Detour #1: Choice and Moral Responsibility -- Detour #2: Kant, Reason, and Human Action -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 5 Virtue Ethics and the Ethics of Care -- Ethics and Character -- Aristotle and Virtue Ethics -- The Virtues and the Mean 
505 8 |a Moral Excellence as a Skill -- The Need for a Teacher or Coach -- Weaknesses of this Approach -- A Final Evaluation of Aristotle's Approach -- A Personal Inventory -- Ethics of Care -- Two Ethical Voices -- An Alternative Approach to Ethics -- A Final Evaluation of an Ethic of Care -- Chapter 6 Doing Right: Why Bother? -- Socrates-The Health of the Soul and "Vice Harms the Doer" -- Vice Harms the Doer -- A Final Word about Socrates -- St Augustine and the "Wages of Sin" -- Another Tale of Corruption-The Dark Side of "The Force" -- Ethics, Maslow, and Self-Actualization 
500 |a Self-Actualizers: Moral Vision and the Objectivity of Ethics 
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