Understanding Ethics

4. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-86287-953-9
Verlag: FEDERATION PR

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

We encounter ethical challenges on a day to day basis in matters that involve what we call ethical values. Some of these challenges affect us as individuals but seem beyond our power to influence, such as a political decision about whether our nation should go to war. Other momentous ethical questions confront us in particular situations, such as when a road accident leaves a loved one brain damaged and medical practitioners seek our permission to turn off life support. Understanding Ethics introduces the frameworks of moral philosophy to analyse contemporary moral issues and perennial human dilemmas.

While the early chapters of ethical theory remain substantially the same, the rest of the book is expanded with updated references, new case studies and an improved index. The new edition examines particular issues which reflect many of the social, scientific and cultural changes of the last decade, especially in an Australian context.

Understanding Ethics is constructed in three sections. Part A introduces the nature, language and frameworks of ethics concluding with a chapter on ethical decision-making. Part B explores topical applied ethics issues of interpersonal and social significance ranging through bioethics, sexual ethics, environmental ethics, business ethics, political ethics and questions of war and social justice. Part C considers how we learn ethics and cultivate a moral life by exploring ethics education in schools and the workplace and finally contains an examination of how we sustain our ethical commitments across a lifetime while experiencing constant change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Preston, Noel

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part A: What is Ethics? The Ethical Challenge Encountering Ethics Ethical Theory: An OverviewResponsible Ethical Decisions Part B: What are the Issues? Truthtelling and Honesty Sex, Love and Morality Life and Death: Bioethical Issues War, Terrorism and Violence Public Responsibility and Political Ethics Ethics in Business and the Professions Environmental Ethics A Global Ethic for a Global Society Part C: How to Cultivate an Ethical Life Values Education Sustaining the Good Life

Über Autor(innen)

Noel Preston is currently Adjunct Professor in the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University and part-time lecturer affiliated to Charles Sturt University through St Francis' Theological College, Brisbane. He retired in November 2004 as the founding Director of the Unitingcare Centre for Social Justice.
In 2004 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to the community in the field of ethics. In his capacity as a social justice campaigner since the early 1970s and as a Minister of the Uniting Church he has previously held leadership roles in various church social justice portfolios including inaugural Convenor of the Uniting Church’s Commission on Social Responsibility, Queensland Director of Action for World Development and Executive Officer of the Victorian Synod Division of Social Justice.