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The sad but famous case of Karen Ann Quinlan posed a dramatic moral question, one which most people had not previously considered.
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Aimed at undergraduates, Contemporary Ethics presupposes little or no familiarity with ethics and is written in a clear and engaging style.
It provides students with a sympathetic but critical guide to utilitarianism, explaining its different forms and exploring the debates it has spawned. The book leads students through a number of current issues in contemporary ethics that are connected to controversies over and within utilitarianism. At the same time, it uses utilitarianism to introduce students to ethics as a subject.
In these ways, the book is not only a guide to utilitarianism, but also an introduction to some standard problems of ethics and to several important topics in contemporary ethical theory.
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- Title Contemporary Ethics
- Author William Shaw
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 324
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, Malden and Oxford
- Date 1999-01-07
- ISBN 9780631202943 / 0631202943
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.05 x 6.03 x 0.98 in (22.99 x 15.32 x 2.49 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Utilitarianism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-28672
- Dewey Decimal Code 171.5
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