Ethics Theory and Contemporary Issues

Mackinnon, Barbara

Ethics Theory and Contemporary Issues - 9th - Boston, MA : Cengage Learning, c2018 - xiii, 622 p. : ill

Includes Bibliographical References and Index

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Introduce your students to major perspectives in ethical theory and contemporary moral debates with MacKinnon/Fiala's ETHICS: THEORY AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, 9th Edition. Comprehensive and clear introductions to general and specific areas of ethical debate cover such influential ethical theories as religion and global ethics, utilitarianism and deontology, natural law ethics, and feminist and care ethics. Contemporary issues include abortion, euthanasia, sexual morality, economic justice, prison reform and capital punishment, war, violence, globalization, structural racism, and same-sex marriage. A broad range of voices in this edition includes continental and non-Western philosophers with readings from prominent voices such as Angela Davis, Mohandas Gandhi, John Lachs, Naomi Zack, Hilde Lindemann, Iris Marion Young, and Andrew Fitz-Gibbon. MindTap offers Aplia assessments plus animated ethics simulations that allow students to engage with the issues discussed in the text.


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