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List of contents
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1. Who Needs Ethics?
- Flying by Instinct
- Dogmatists and Rationalizers
- Ethics and Diversity
- For Practice
- CHAPTER 2. Thinking for Yourself
- Beyond Moral Rules
- Beyond the Law
- Beyond Commandments
- For Practice
- CHAPTER 3. An Eye for Moral Values
- Families of Moral Values
- Using the Families of Moral Values
- Ethical Theories
- For Practice
- CHAPTER 4. When Values Clash
- Right versus Right
- Balancing and Integrating Values
- Moral Vision
- For Practice
- CHAPTER 5. Creative Problem-Solving in Ethics 6
- Creativity's Promise in Ethics
- How to Expand Possibilities
- Reframing Ethical Problems
- For Practice
- CHAPTER 6. Making a Difference
- Changing Our Lives
- Changing the World
- Changing Ethics
- For Practice
- Eight Tips for Effective Writing in Ethics
- Notes and Sources
- Index
About the author
Anthony Weston is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at Elon University. He is the author of A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox, Fourth Edition (OUP, 2017), Mobilizing the Green Imagination: An Exuberant Manifesto (2012), and dozens of other books and articles.
Summary
A Practical Companion to Ethics, Fifth Edition, is a concise and accessible introduction to the basic attitudes and skills that make ethics work, like thinking for oneself, creative and integrative problem-solving, and keeping an open mind. This unique volume illuminates the broad kinds of practical intelligence required in moral judgment, complementing the narrower theoretical considerations that often dominate ethics courses. It offers practical instruction in problem-solving by demonstrating how to frame an ethical problem and deal effectively with ethical disagreements. The book also presents ethics as an ongoing learning experience, helping students to engage constructively with both the complexities of their individual lives and with the larger issues that exist in the world around them.
The fifth edition retains the most popular features of the previous edition, including challenging and relevant end-of-chapter exercises and brief text boxes that define key terms and review core strategies. The optimistic tone and brisk pace of the narrative provide an entertaining and intelligent guide to "everyday" morality. Ideal for introductory courses in ethics and applied ethics, A Practical Companion to Ethics, Fifth Edition, can also be used in any course related to critical thinking.
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A Practical Companion to Ethics is remarkable in many ways. It is a very practical guide to implementing ethical thinking, as contrasted with many introductory texts. The text fills an obvious niche uniquely and very well.
