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Introducing Ethics

A Graphic Guide

Dave Robinson author Chris Garratt author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Icon Books

Published:4th Sep '08

Should be back in stock very soon

Introducing Ethics cover

What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last-ditch cultural defence of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant information, free markets and possible ecological disaster, how do we define "rights", self-interest and civic duties? What are the acceptable limits of scientific investigation and genetic engineering, the rights and wrongs of animal rights, euthanasia and civil disobedience?"Introducing Ethics" confronts these dilemmas, tracing the arguments of the great moral thinkers, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes and Kant, and brings us up to date with postmodern critics.

"'Introducing is a miracle of modern publishing... buy one now.' Don Patterson, Guardian"

ISBN: 9781848310087

Dimensions: 168mm x 118mm x 13mm

Weight: 159g

176 pages