- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; annotated edition edition (13 Aug 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415156254
- ISBN-13: 978-0415156257
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16.2 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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"The book reinforces the conviction that reasonable, undogmatic answers can be given to the main question of ethics."
-Robert Arrington, Georgia State University
"Unusually rigorous. The best and most thorough treatment of foundational issues that I have seen . . . The discussion of abortion is outstanding."
-Thomas Carson, Loyola University of Chicago
-Robert Arrington, Georgia State University
"Unusually rigorous. The best and most thorough treatment of foundational issues that I have seen . . . The discussion of abortion is outstanding."
-Thomas Carson, Loyola University of Chicago
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Ethics introduces the issues and controversies of contemporary moral philosophy to undergraduate students who have already done an introductory course in philosophy. It will help students to think more clearly about how to form their moral beliefs in the wisest and most rational way. The basic approaches to metaethics and normative ethics are related to specific issues, particularly those of racism, education, and abortion. Written in a clear and concise way by an experienced textbook author, Ethics will also be of interest to the general reader.
Unique features of the textbook:
* boxed key ideas
* Glossary of philosophical terms
* Chapter summaries and study questions
* Annotated further reading and Internet Web resources
There is an associated website for teachers and students at www.routledge.com/routledge/philosophy/cip/ethics.htm
Unique features of the textbook:
* boxed key ideas
* Glossary of philosophical terms
* Chapter summaries and study questions
* Annotated further reading and Internet Web resources
There is an associated website for teachers and students at www.routledge.com/routledge/philosophy/cip/ethics.htm
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you are starting this topic from scratch you should read this book first, before anything else, in order to give you a solid grouding upon which to build the more complex arguments you will find elsewhere. Gensler has suceeded in speaking clearly on ethical theories, a very rare gift in philosphical terms. This book is the ideal introduction for people who are unaccoustomed to the writing style of philosophy, but who need a grounding in the ideas. Ideal for the beginning or revision of philosophy A-level or the first week of an undergraduate course.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
In general, an easy to read and understand history of moral ethical thinking. Just be aware that towards the end there is a heavy bias towards the author's pet theory of Golden Rule and his anti-abortion agenda.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Spare yourself: do NOT go to the sources
31 Oct 2003
Format:Paperback
Shure, if you're already familiar with ethics you might find it's rather a glancy look into The Morale. But mind you: it's an introduction - meaning it's set up for people who are interested in ethics, but have no prior knowledge about this topic. To these people it gives them a fair look at ethics. If they're really interested Gensler gives them plenty references to go out and buy the sources.
I do agree though that it's kind of annoying that Gensler does not refrain from pushing the reader in a certain kind of ethical direction. Overall, I give it 4 stars out of 5.
I do agree though that it's kind of annoying that Gensler does not refrain from pushing the reader in a certain kind of ethical direction. Overall, I give it 4 stars out of 5.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Ethical Tool-Kit
24 Jun 2007
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This book is an easy-to-understand introduction to ethical reasoning. I say "ethical reasoning" rather than "ethical philosophy" because the author doesn't survey the great ethical philosophers or go book-by-book through the ethics canon. Instead, he outlines competing approaches to ethics (such as intuitionism and emotivism), and subjects them to critical analysis. He ends up defending a Kantian "Golden Rule" approach that enables us to reason consistently about ethical problems, even though it offers no conclusions about the ultimate source of ethics.
Although the book handles no issue in depth, it does zero in on most of the main issues in contemporary analytic ethics. It provides the reader with the basic tools for thinking rationally about ethical dilemmas. For beginners, that's more helpful than the exegesis of Great Books.
Although the book handles no issue in depth, it does zero in on most of the main issues in contemporary analytic ethics. It provides the reader with the basic tools for thinking rationally about ethical dilemmas. For beginners, that's more helpful than the exegesis of Great Books.
11 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Very clear, appealing and relevant
29 Jun 1999
Format:Paperback
Gensler, prof . of philo. at John Carrol U., has written here a book that is both very clear, formal and yet appealing as each chapter begins with the thoughts of the same fictional character and then deals with them. Gensler refers also to some online exercises he has put on his site. What may be a limitation with the book is that it is mostly limited to the question "how do we know what to do?" (which is extensively covered by a survey all the theories). This is how I understand why Gensler rejected supernaturalism (divine command). If he had dealt with the reality of right and wrong, then he would probably have admitted that without a purposeful mind beyond the cosmos there would be no right/wrong, that it would not matter if all humans would disappear in awful sufferings, or whatever. In his synthesis (final) chapter, Gensler seems to advocate the golden rule, but the reader may be given the impression he advocates a kind of situation ethics , because of another issue that was again not really dealt with (conflict between duties, etc.).
For a more systematic (but dryer and more difficult) work, I would recommend Norman Geisler's Introduction to philosophy or his Ethics. Anyway I found Gensler's book excellent. A more fun and less formal intro. is Steve Wilkens' Beyond Bumper Sticker Ethics.
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