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245	0	0	_aIntroduction to Philosophy _bEthics _cGeorge Matthews
264		2	_bOpen Textbook Library
264		1	_bRebus Community
300			_a1 online resource
490	0		_aOpen textbook library.
505	0		_a1. Aren't Right and Wrong Just Matters of Opinion? On Moral Relativism and Subjectivism -- 2. Can We Have Ethics without Religion? On Divine Command Theory and Natural Law Theory -- 3. How Can I Be a Better Person? On Virtue Ethics -- 4. What's in it for Me? On Egoism and Social Contract Theory -- 5. Utilitarianism -- 6. Kantian Deontology -- 7. Feminism and Feminist Ethics -- 8. Evolutionary Ethics
520	0		_aWe often make judgments about good and bad, right and wrong. Philosophical ethics is the critical examination of these and other concepts central to how we evaluate our own and each others' behavior and choices. This text examines some of the main threads of discussion on these topics that have developed over the last couple of millenia, mostly within the Western cultural tradition. It considers basic questions about moral and ethical judgment: Is there such a thing as something that is really right or really wrong independent of time, place and perspective? What is the relationship between religion and ethics? How can we reconcile self-interest and ethics? Is it ever acceptable to harm one person in order to help others? What do recent discussions in evolutionary biology or have to say about human moral systems? What is the relation between gender and ethics? The authors invite you to participate in their exploration of these and many other questions in philosophical ethics.
542	1		_fAttribution
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on print resource
650		0	_aPhilosophy _vTextbooks
700	1		_aMatthews, George _eauthor
700	1		_aHendricks, Christina _eauthor
710	2		_aOpen Textbook Library _edistributor
856	4	0	_uhttps://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/797 _zAccess online version
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