Ethical Decision Making: Introduction to Cases and Concepts in Ethics

This short introduction to the discipline of Ethics in its practical and professional applications teaches, in simplest form, the discipline's vocabulary and forms of reasoning. It includes illustrative cases, clear explanations of philosophical terminology, and presents decision procedures appropriate to a hierarchy of cases. It is meant to be a foundation for elementary work in Ethics.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Cases and Decisions.- Chapter 2: The Principles of Ethics.- Chapter 3: Professional Ethics.- Chapter 4: Some Considerations from Moral Psychology.- A Brief Bibliography for Philosophical Ethics.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Newton
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.05.2013
• EAN: 9783319001661
• ISBN: 978-3-31-900166-1
• No. of pages: 63
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 238 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Illustrations: V, 63 p.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; C, Soziale und politische Philosophie, Ethics, Social & political philosophy, Religion and Philosophy, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Philosophy and social sciences, The Belmont Report, Theoretical Ethics, “Ethic” of Various Professions, Reasoning of Applied Ethics, Teleological, Deontological, and Ontological Reasoning, Principles of Ethics, Reasoning in Ethics, Professional morality, Stakeholder Theory