Name: Introducing Ethics. A Beginner's Guide Through Six Major Thinkers
SKU: 67602108
Author: Lee Braver
ISBN: 9781647922719

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Introducing Ethics. A Beginner's Guide Through Six Major Thinkers

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Hackett Publishing Co, Inc

Author

Lee Braver

Year

2026

Pages

312

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.5x13.9 cm

ISBN13

9781647922719

Introducing Ethics. A Beginner's Guide Through Six Major Thinkers

Lee Braver (Author) · Hackett Publishing Co, Inc · Paperback

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Synopsis "Introducing Ethics. A Beginner's Guide Through Six Major Thinkers"

Introducing Ethics guides us through the history of Western ethics, starting with Socrates’s effort to use reason for questions about what it means to be a good person and what we should do. We then explore three major moral theories—John Stuart Mill’s utilitarianism, Immanuel Kant’s deontology, and Aristotle’s character ethics—as if they were a large-scale Socratic dialogue, where each raises objections and builds on the others. We conclude with two twentieth-century challenges to Socrates’s approach: Carol Gilligan’s feminism and Jean