Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Praise
Dedication
Acknowledgements
PART ONE: THEORETICAL ETHICS
1 Setting the Scene
2 Plato – Virtue and Knowledge
3 Aristotle and Virtue Theory
4 Aquinas, Natural Law and Proportionalism
5 Kant and the Moral Law
6 Bentham and Mill – Utilitarianism
7 Post-utilitarian Perspectives:
Intuitionism
Emotivism
8 MacIntyre – Virtue Theory Revisited
9 Virtue Ethics
10 Situation Ethics
11 Justice and Morality – Rawls and Nozick
PART TWO: APPLIED ETHICS
12 Abortion and Personhood
13 Euthanasia and Medical Ethics
14 Just War
15 Crime and Punishment
16 Human Rights
17 Animal Rights
18 Environmental Ethics
19 Genetic Engineering
20 Media Ethics
21 Conclusion
Further Reading
Index
About the Author
About the Publisher
