Ethics

by Mark Dimmock & Andrew Fisher

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The goal of this book is to improve your logical-reasoning skills also called "critical thinking skills." They are a complex weave of abilities that help you get someone's point, generate reasons for your own point, evaluate the reasons given by others, decide what or what not to do, decide what information to accept or reject, explain a complicated idea, apply conscious quality control as you think, and resist propaganda.

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Publisher
Torquay Boys' Grammar School & University of Nottingham
Subjects
Humanities, Philosophy
Licence
CC BY, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. 1: Utilitarianism
  9. Section 1:
  10. Section 2: Advice for Logical Reasoners
  11. Section 3:
  12. Section 4:
  13. Section 5:
  14. Section 6:
  15. 2: Kantian ethics
  16. Section 1:
  17. Section 2:
  18. Section 3:
  19. Section 4:
  20. Section 5:
  21. Section 6:
  22. 3: Aristotelian Virtue Ethics
  23. Section 1:
  24. Section 2:
  25. Section 3:
  26. Section 4:
  27. Section 5:
  28. Section 6:
  29. 4: Aquinas’s Natural Law Theory
  30. 4.1: Introduction to Aquinas
  31. 4.2: Motivating Natural Law Theory - The Euthyphro Dilemma and Divine Command Theory
  32. 4.3: Natural Law Theory
  33. 4.4: Summary of Aquinas’s Natural Law Theory
  34. 4.5: Putting this into Practice: The Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE)
  35. 4.6: Some Thoughts about Natural Law Theory
  36. 4.7: Summary and Review
  37. 5: Fletcher's Situation Ethics
  38. Section 1:
  39. Section 2:
  40. Section 3:
  41. Section 4:
  42. Section 5:
  43. Section 6:
  44. 6: Metaethical Theories
  45. Section 1:
  46. Section 2:
  47. Section 3:
  48. Section 4:
  49. Section 5:
  50. Section 6:
  51. 7: Euthanasia
  52. Section 1:
  53. Section 2:
  54. Section 3:
  55. Section 4:
  56. Section 5:
  57. Section 6:
  58. 8: Business Ethics
  59. Section 1:
  60. Section 2:
  61. Section 3:
  62. Section 4:
  63. Section 5:
  64. Section 6:
  65. 9: Conscience
  66. Section 1:
  67. Section 2:
  68. Section 3:
  69. Section 4:
  70. Section 5:
  71. Section 6:
  72. 10: Sexual Ethics
  73. Section 1:
  74. Section 2:
  75. Section 3:
  76. Section 4:
  77. Section 5:
  78. Section 6:
  79. 11: Stealing
  80. 11.1: Defining Stealing
  81. 11.2: Kantian Ethics on Stealing
  82. 11.3: Act and Preference Utilitarianism on Stealing
  83. 11.4: Rule Utilitarianism on Stealing
  84. 11.5: Virtue Ethics on Stealing
  85. 11.6: Metaethics and Stealing
  86. 11.S: Stealing (Summary and Review)
  87. 12: Simulated Killing
  88. Section 1:
  89. Section 2:
  90. Section 3:
  91. Section 4:
  92. Section 5:
  93. Section 6:
  94. 13: Telling Lies
  95. Section 1:
  96. Section 2:
  97. Section 3:
  98. Section 4:
  99. Section 5:
  100. Section 6:
  101. 14: Eating Animals
  102. 14.2: Justifying Meat Eating
  103. 14.3: Act Utilitarianism
  104. 14.4: Challenges to Bentham
  105. 14.5: Utilitarian Reasons for Eating Animals
  106. 14.6: Kantian Ethics and Eating Animals
  107. 14.7: Virtue Ethics and Eating Animals
  108. Back Matter
  109. Index
  110. Glossary
  111. Detailed Licensing