Ethics: The Basics

Ethics: The Basics provides beginning students with a solid grounding in basic ethical principles, theories and traditions, as well as a set of conceptual tools necessary to think about ethics and make ethical decisions.

• Introduces ethical concepts, theories, and traditions in an unusually reader-friendly manner
• Considers western and non-western ethical viewpoints and religious interpretations of ethical concepts
• Includes end of chapter summaries, case studies, review questions, diagrams and an appendix containing definitions of all the ethical concepts, principles, theories, and traditions introduced in the book

Keywords: Ethics, moral philosophy, virtue, social contract, natural law, deontology, relativism, universalism, Ethics