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Reading Ethics
Miranda Fricker
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Description for Reading Ethics
Paperback. This introductory text encourages students to engage with key problems and arguments in ethics through a series of classic and contemporary readings. Editor(s): Fricker, Miranda; Guttenplan, Samuel. Series: Reading Philosophy. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 18. Weight in Grams: 594.
This text encourages students to engage with key problems and arguments in ethics through a series of classic and contemporary readings.
This text encourages students to engage with key problems and arguments in ethics through a series of classic and contemporary readings.
- This text encourages students to engage with ethical issues through a series of classic and contemporary readings
- Readings are accompanied by interactive commentary from the editors
- Inspires students to think about the nature of moral philosophy and to draw comparisons between different traditions
- Themes include: the nature of goodness, subjectivity and objectivity, justice and virtue, moral motivation, moral obligation, and literature as moral philosophy
- Readings range from Plato’s Republic to Rawls’ A Theory of Justice
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Reading Philosophy
Condition
New
Weight
593g
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405124744
SKU
V9781405124744
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Miranda Fricker
Miranda Fricker is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck, London. She is the author of Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2006), and co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy (2007). Samuel Guttenplan is Professor in Philosophy at Birkbeck, London. He is author of Mind’s Landscape (Blackwell Publishing, 2000), and The Languages of Logic (Second Edition, ... Read more
Reviews for Reading Ethics
"Reading Ethics is a highly original and creative approach to introducing ethics which not only encourages beginners to understand and think about primary sources, but will also challenge, renew and enliven the interest of experienced philosophers and their interpretation of familiar arguments. There is simply nothing else available that introduces primary works in a way so likely to capture the ... Read more