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Introducing Ethics
Introducing Ethics: A Graphic Guide | Dave Robinson, Chris Garratt
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What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last-ditch cultural defence of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant information, free markets and possible ecological disaster, how do we define "rights", self-interest and civic duties? What are the acceptable limits of scientific investigation and genetic engineering, the rights and wrongs of animal rights, euthanasia and civil disobedience?"Introducing Ethics" confronts these dilemmas, tracing the arguments of the great moral thinkers, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes and Kant, and brings us up to date with postmodern critics.
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Whilst acknowledging that other ethical traditions exist, Robinson focusses on the Classical European tradition, which is something to bear in mind when he concludes we can really know nothing for certain about ethics. I'd have liked it to be more rounded, but within its remit, it was a good starter text. Glad I read it in one sitting, though I'd benefit from reading it again in chunks, I think.