Synopsis
A Concise Introduction to Ethics is an abbreviated and simplified version of Russ Shafer-Landau's best-selling textbook/primer on ethical theory for the introduction to ethics and introduction to contemporary moral issues courses, The Fundamentals of Ethics. For many philosophy departments
these ethics courses are their largest enrollment offerings, often fulfilling a university general education requirement. Shafer-Landau's The Fundamentals of Ethics has been the #1 selling ethics textbook for years primarily because it provides students with the clearest and most accessible
explanations of ethical theories available. It is relatively brief, and yet quite comprehensive, covering more theories than the competing texts do but also presenting them in the most understandable way--the author has a direct conversation with the students. This book will be about 1/3 shorter
than The Fundamentals of Ethics, while still maintaining its content advantage over competing books by including several areas of theory that others omit, including the good life (value theory), natural law, and prima facie duties.
A Concise Introduction to Ethics will be based on the first part of Shafer-Landau's new OUP hybrid textbook/reader Living Ethics. The end of each chapter features several cases and discussion questions so students get opportunities to apply ethical theories to real-world moral issues and problems.
Like its parent book, this volume can be paired with Shafer-Landau's reader The Ethical Life, which includes key reading selections from ethical theory and essays on contemporary moral problems. It can also accompany any reader on ethics or contemporary moral issues.
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À propos de l?auteur
Russ Shafer-Landau is Professor of Philosophy at University of Madison, Wisconsin. He is the author of The Ethical Life, Fourth Edition (OUP, 2018); Living Ethics (OUP, 2019) Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? (OUP, 2004); Moral Realism: A Defense (OUP, 2006); Ethical Theory: An Anthology, Second
Edition (Blackwell, 2012); and Reason and Responsibility, Fifteenth Edition, with Joel Feinberg (Cengage, 2014). He is the editor of Oxford Studies in Metaethics
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